“Healthy ready meals are the electric car of the food industry”, Boston Consulting Group found. Social change means that ever more people are eating food prepared outside of the home. Be it a child at play school or senior citizens enjoying meals on wheels. The K-POT is an intelligent table-top appliance that can cook prepared foods precisely due to its programmed control system, thus ensuring excellent quality. For the public sphere, this means that the on-site caterer can do without a cook. In the semi-public and the private sphere, the K-POT fulfills the changing needs of a modern community.