The Stove Guy: Sam D'Amico Shows New AI Cooking Features on America's Most Powerful Stove at Impulse
In this episode, we visit Impulse with founder and CEO Sam D’Amico for a tour of the office, a live demo of the most powerful induction stove on the market, and a cooking session with new AI features. Sam breaks down why Impulse rebuilt the stove from first principles around a lithium iron phosphate battery, how that unlocks dramatically more power and tighter temperature control, and why he thinks home appliances are becoming software-defined hardware platforms. We also get into his path from Meta, Oculus, and consumer electronics into appliances, how AI is changing how he builds, and why Imp…
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Chapters (16)
Intro
0:12
Start of Tour
0:18
The Impulse Cooktop Demo
0:55
Zephyr Partnership + Showrooms
1:14
Magnetic Knob Interface
2:04
How Impulse Tests and QA’s Every Build
3:34
Rebuilding the Stove From First Principles
5:02
Impulse Core and OEM Partnerships
6:09
How Long It Took to Build the Product
8:07
The Japan Pizza Story That Sparked Impulse
9:22
Why Sam Left Consumer Hardware for Appliances
12:42
Why the Stove Was the Right Entry Point
14:31
Building Appliances “Like a Phone”
17:17
Will Impulse Ship a Single-Burner Version?
17:37
Cooking Begins on the AI Dev Unit
19:10
How Sam Uses AI t
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