Whether cooking is a passion of yours or a chore, it’s good to have a little helper in the kitchen. The iPad may not be perfect for everything, but it can help in a number of ways, including providing you with recipes and making sure you get them just right. It can also alert you when your steak is perfectly medium-rare. Best of all, it can do all this while providing some fun background music for your kitchen activities.

One of the most useful tools in the kitchen is a scale. The Drop connected kitchen scale communicates with an iPad and displays weights and measurements on its large, easy-to-read screen. While this device doesn’t actually portion out ingredients, it does keep you informed in real time.

Drop is two things: a scale and an app. The scale measures how much the ingredient weighs and sends that information to the iPad. The app contains a library of interactive recipes that you can customize based on portion sizes and number of people being served, and it also helps you complete the recipe.

The combination of the Drop scale and app allows you to use one mixing bowl. As you add ingredients, Drop remembers how much the bowl weighed before your current ingredient, so it can accurately alert you when you've added enough of that ingredient. Drop also keeps track of the baking time.