Not only did we completely solve kitchen cleaning for home cooks, we enable all chefs to cook directly in anyone's homes at any time.
As a User:
A good meal should leave you with time to enjoy it.
You don't actually hate cooking, but you dread everything around it. The shopping for exact ingredients. Chopping and getting everything ready. And the mess in the kitchen waiting to be cleaned when you finally sit down to eat.
We spent over 40 hours watching more than 30 families cook to understand where all that work comes from.
We observed that 83% of the food stains happened while ingredients were being moved between surfaces, such as from a chopping board to the pan or a plate. And 77% of the families didn’t have a chopping board large enough for the portions they were preparing. The work was essentially spread across several surfaces too small to cook spontaneously.
Timing made the cleanup harder too. 64% of the stains had already dried by the time people thought to clean them. When your attention is on getting a meal ready, cleaning slips down the list. By the time you get back to it, the mess takes more effort to remove.
From our research, cleaning was the number-one pain point, followed by ingredient preparation, then shopping, and finally cooking itself. That's why a conventional cooking robot don't work: it still leaves most of that pain to you if you still need to buy the ingredients and prepare them. And since prepping is what mainly dirties the kitchen, nothing really got solved: In fact it just made you the cleaner and sous chef for the robot.
We built Tepan around the whole process. By bringing the kitchen’s preparation and cooking surfaces together into one unified workspace, we can build automatic cleaning into every part of it. Whether you do the cooking or we do, Tepan takes care of cleaning the whole workspace afterward.
And when you’d like someone else to take care of dinner, you can book a real private chef whose food you like. Your chef takes care of shopping, preparation and cooking, with ingredients delivered to your door and the meal prepared remotely in your own kitchen, for as low as $20 per meal.
Cook when you want to. Book a chef when you don’t. Either way, finish with a fresh meal and a clean kitchen.
Imagine a 36-inch(90cm) chopping board that also works as a responsive 5-burners induction stove and griddle that cleans and maintains itself (after your cooking sessions). Plus, be able to book your meals from a private chef, get ingredients delivered straight to your door and a real human chef remotely prepare a full gourmet meal for you and your family for as low as $20 a meal while leaving behind a spotless kitchen.
As a Chef:
You have a menu in your head. The world should get to taste it.
You’ve spent years bringing someone else’s menu to life. You know the dishes you’d serve if the menu were yours. The flavors you’d explore. The food you’d put your own name on.
But turning that into a living means finding a space, raising the money, and marketing to people living around it. You can spend decades proving yourself in other people’s kitchens and still be waiting for the chance to serve your own food.
A musician can release a song and find the people who love it. A writer can publish a story. An indie developer can put a game into the world virtually for free. The internet gave them a way to build a creative life without waiting for someone at the top to choose them.
Cooks deserve that freedom too.
Food’s physical nature has kept that freedom out of reach. Unlike other art forms, your cooking can only find an audience within reach of a physical kitchen. That puts enormous power over whose food gets discovered in the hands of the few who owns distribution. And because most restaurants depend on a limited pool of nearby customers, familiar dishes are often safer bets than new ones. Making the freedom to truly experiment and treat cooking as an art (which it is) far too often reserved for the handful of chefs whose names are big enough to make people travel to their food.
We’re building Tepan so you can bring your cooking directly into people’s homes anywhere in the world. You operate their kitchen remotely, choose your ingredients, set your prices, and build a following of people who come back specifically for your food.
Imagine getting a booking because someone tried your dish and wants you to cook for them again. Your name is the one they remember. Your food is what they tell their friends about.
You shouldn’t have to open a restaurant to make a living from your own cooking. And the people who would love it shouldn’t need a plane ticket to taste it.
Tepan empowers every chef to get paid for their own recipes as a private chef by removing the 2-meals-a-day limitation of private cooking. In addition, by eliminating travel, kitchen setup, and cleanup, we more than halve the time required to serve each household. And because customers span different time zones, their mealtimes don't compete, allowing chefs to serve far more families every day without leaving their home.
Our hardware is engineered from first principles to be minimal, self-cleaning, self-maintaining, versatile and retain full functionality as a conventional stove without being more expensive.
There will be no reason to own a stovetop that isn't Tepan.