"Kitchen appliances don't usually stop me dead in my tracks at CES, but a grill that cooks with light instead of fire deserves at least a few minutes of attention, right?! Cozytime brought their LUMO optical grill to CES 2026, and the pitch sounds almost too convenient to be true: restaurant-quality char marks without smoke, 0.2-second heat-up instead of the usual 10-minute wait, and AI that scans your food to figure out cooking time automatically."
"LUMO reconfigures into three distinct modes with different light arrangements: a mini oven setup for baking, a fast grill mode for weeknight steaks, and a wide flat mode that opens to 180 degrees for Korean BBQ-style tabletop cooking. The company claims their side-heat design keeps grease from vaporizing into smoke because the heating elements sit beside the food rather than underneath where drippings normally land and burn."
LUMO is an optical grill that cooks using focused far-infrared light delivered through four precision reflectors to provide 360-degree heat coverage. The system heats in 0.2 seconds and claims cooking speeds up to four times faster than traditional methods. AI scanning estimates cooking time automatically. The grill reconfigures into three modes: a mini oven for baking, a fast grill for weeknight steaks, and a wide flat mode that opens to 180 degrees for Korean BBQ-style tabletop cooking. A side-heat design positions heating elements beside the food to reduce grease vaporization and smoke. Questions remain about replicating outdoor smoky flavor.
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