LocknLock Launches Next-Generation Innovation 'Steam Fryer S2'

Steam Fryer S2

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghyun Choi] Global household goods company Lock&Lock announced on the 2nd that it will launch the next-generation innovative smart cooking appliance, the SteamFryer S2.

The core technology of the new SteamFryer S2 is the 130℃ "Super Steam." Lock&Lock focused on researching ways to maximize flavor and developed a super steam technology at 130℃, which is higher than boiling water. With this technology, they introduced a new concept cooking appliance that can function not only as an air fryer and oven but also as a grill, toaster, and steamer. The 130℃ super steam is a technology that uses a double steam heater design, where the steam from the first steam heater is heated once more by the second steam heater. As the product name "Steam Fry" suggests, it steams food up to 100℃ and, beyond 100℃, the moisture on the food surface evaporates, performing a frying function. The thermal energy of the super steam is higher than that of regular steam, allowing it to penetrate quickly and evenly deep into the food, resulting in the best taste with a moist interior and crispy exterior. Additionally, because it heats the ingredients quickly inside, it expels fat and salt from meat and preserves nutrients such as vitamin C and polyphenols in vegetables, enabling healthier cooking.

It can prepare a variety of dishes different from conventional air fryers. In particular, it offers baking technology that cannot be realized with typical air fryers. The 130℃ steam enhances the texture and flavor of frozen dough, and the temperature can be adjusted up to 230℃, making it easy to bake hard bread varieties that require fermentation. Users can choose from four modes: manual steam (steaming), oven (frying), multi simultaneous (using steam and oven functions simultaneously), and multi sequential (cooking sequentially). Using the multi simultaneous function, you can bake baguette bread with a hard crust and moist interior without spraying water separately.

By using the automatic menu, you can conveniently enjoy 50 preset dishes optimized with 130℃ super steam and frying. Especially, it allows easy preparation of various dishes that cannot be made with other products on the market, such as cooking rice, making rice cakes, fermented foods like yogurt, steamed dishes like beef hinoki cypress steam, steamed fish, steamed sweet potatoes, and blanching vegetables.

Another notable feature of the SteamFryer S2 is that it is a smart appliance equipped with an Internet of Things (IoT) recipe transmission function. It connects with the LL Labs app, which shares information and usage methods of the company's products, allowing recipes developed by chefs to be sent directly to the SteamFryer S2 and set for cooking. Currently, over 30 recipes are registered and will be continuously updated. Additionally, by scanning the barcode of frozen foods and meal kits sold on the market, an exclusive chef optimizes and suggests recipes with ideal steam and frying times.

User convenience and safety have also been enhanced. With the Oven Care function, it offers steam cleaning, rapid deodorization, quick drying mode, and a descaling mode that removes deposits inside the steam heater, making it easy and hygienic to manage stubborn grease. The entire interior that contacts ingredients, as well as the heating wire, circulation fan, temperature sensor, and supplied components such as the grill rack, tray, and screws, are all made of stainless steel 304, ensuring safe use. With a large 17L capacity, it can cook two regular-sized pizzas in two tiers, making it sufficient for home parties where large quantities are cooked at once.

To commemorate the launch of the SteamFryer S2, Lock&Lock is holding an early bird sales event on its official online store Lock&Lock Mall until the 27th. Lee Jungmin, Executive Director of Lock&Lock Korea (Head of Korea Small Home Appliances Division), said, "Since Lock&Lock officially entered the domestic small kitchen appliance market in 2019, we have been leading the market by continuously introducing differentiated products such as vacuum rice containers and steam air fryers. Following the Steam Air Fryer (S1), which caused a sell-out frenzy from pre-orders in 2020, we will elevate the level of home cooking and lead innovation in kitchen life with the SteamFryer S2, which applies the 130℃ super steam technology."

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