Nomiku

Nomiku was a San Francisco-based company making sous-vide immersion circulators designed for the home cook.[1] The company was started as a Kickstarter project in 2012.[2] Nomiku was intended to provide affordable access to sous-vide cooking.[3] In 2017, the company began to offer home delivery of prepared meals that are prepared using sous-vide method, but ceased operations in December 2019.[4]

Nomiku
TypePrivate
IndustryHome appliances
Founded2012 (2012)
FoundersLisa and Abe Fetterman
DefunctDecember 13, 2019 (2019-12-13)
HeadquartersSan Francisco
Websitenomiku.com

Company history

Nomiku was founded by Lisa Q. Fetterman, Abe Fetterman, and Wipop Bam Suppipat. Previously, Lisa and Abe started their first company together, called Lower East Kitchen, while living in New York City.[5] After relocating to the San Francisco, Lisa and Abe decided to pursue their sous vide endeavours further and joined the hardware startup accelerator Haxlr8r.[6]

Nomiku's name is a shortened version of the Japanese phrase “Nomikui” (飲み食い), which means “eating and drinking”. [7]

In 2017, Nomiku began to offer a meal delivery service that shipped pre-packaged, pre-cooked, pre-portioned meals to customers that could be prepared using sous vide cooking in 30 minutes. An investment [8]from Samsung helped the company developed an RFID enabled sous vide version of their Nomiku immersion cooker and expand the business from a connected hardware device to a subscription meal delivery service.

On December 13, 2019 the company emailed its customers that they would be discontinuing the Nomiku Smart Cooker and Nomiku Meals effective immediately, suspending operations.

Founders

Lisa Q. Fetterman was the CEO of Nomiku. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, she worked in several fine dining restaurants. Fetterman also worked as a journalist at many publications.[9] She has been named Forbes 30 Under 30[10] as well as Zagat 30 Under 30[11] for her work with Nomiku.

Abe Fetterman holds a PhD from Princeton specializing in Plasma Physics and Astrophysics.[12] He is the CTO of Nomiku and helped Lisa conceive Lower East Kitchen and develop their Ember Kit.

Wipop Bam Suppipat is Nomiku’s third co-founder and designer. Suppipat earned his Industrial Design degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and was classically trained at the French Culinary Institute.

Products
The first generation Nomiku sous-vide cooker, attached to the back of a pot.

In addition to the original Nomiku Immersion sous vide machine, Fetterman authored a cookbook with Meesha Halm and Scott Peabody, Sous Vide at Home, that was published by Penguin Random House in November 2016.[13] The book was a bestseller on Amazon, and a follow up, Sous Vide Made Simple, was published in October 2018 by Ten Speed Press.[14]

  • The Original Nomiku Immersion Circulator.[15]
  • WiFi Nomiku
  • Sous-vide-ready meats[16]

See also

References
  1. "Maker/Nomiku". Nomiku. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
  2. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nomiku/nomiku-bring-sous-vide-into-your-kitchen?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=nomiku
  3. "The Best Maker Business Story I've Ever Heard… | MAKE". Blog.makezine.com. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
  4. "Connected sous vide company Nomiku is shutting down". Engadget. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  5. "Democratizing sous vide cooking". Lower East Kitchen. 2011-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
  6. "HAX S1-2012 / Nomiku". HAXLR8R. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
  7. "English Reference for nomikui". JLearn.net. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  8. Wolf, Michael (2017-04-26). "With Investment In Nomiku, Samsung Expands Presence In The "Connected Kitchen"". The Spoon. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  9. "Lisa Fetterman".
  10. "Forbes 30 Under 30: Lisa Fetterman".
  11. "Zagat 30 Under 30 San Francisco".
  12. "Sous Vide Spotlight: Lisa Fetterman, CEO of Nomiku - Sous Vide Guy". Sous Vide Guy. 2016-09-26. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  13. "Sous Vide at Home". Penguin Random House. 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
  14. "Sous Vide Made Simple". Ten Speed Press (Penguin Random House). 2018-11-08. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
  15. "How to Sous Vide with Nomiku".
  16. "YC-Backed Nomiku, Maker of An Affordable Sous Vide Machine, Gets Into Software With Tender App".
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