The article also misses another important feature or three: chemically modified food preparation materials that change the flavor of say petridish meat or vegetable matter.

It talks about menus and recipes but not AI to modify recipes on demand to account for varying levels of food stocks. Minestrone soup can be made many ways and can even be made differently each time. Chile is the same. It will take AI to look at the present food stocks and produce a menu of items which can be prepared in a user selected time frame. To do what my mother was able to do in the kitchen will take a LOT of AI. In fact, such tasks as food / menu planning are as complex or more so than playing 3 games of chess simultaneously…. where the pieces from all three games interact.

Goal: plan six meals for the next three days with current food stocks, and plan 6 more for the 3 days following one trip to the store and spending less than 15 dollars US. Now, that would be a smart fridge.