Space Research Studio – Welcome to an Appetite for Innovation
Welcome to the Space Research Studio at Tbtechchef — where culinary ambition meets technical precision, and cooking tools go beyond “just function” and delight in the details of digital elegance. This is not your average test kitchen; it’s our dynamic, idea-fueled laboratory where flame meets firmware, and the future of food is as flavorful as it is futuristic.
Founded by Jorvanna Yelthanna, a bold mind with a whisk in one hand and a microcontroller in the other, Tbtechchef explores the powerful intersection of cooking and technology. Located in Lafayette, Louisiana — specifically at 603 Hillside Drive, Lafayette, Louisiana 70506, United States — our studio pulses with real-time research, iterative tastings, and the kind of delightful experimentation only a tech-empowered kitchen can house.
Our operating hours are simple: just enough to get deliciously detailed. Open Monday to Friday, 9 AM–5 PM CST. Outside that? We’re probably still testing fermentation cycles with smart humidity sensors or recalibrating burner settings with voice AI — but you can bet we’re always thinking with a sauté pan and a circuit board side by side.
The Vision: Testing Tomorrow’s Cooking Today
This studio was never meant to be a traditional setup. Instead, it thrives as a brilliant, slightly buzzing ecosystem where culinary experiments converge with gadgetry, where heat is processed through high-level systems thinking, and where your grandmother’s pressure cooker is digitally reborn. Here, we aren’t just testing recipes — we’re field-testing the hardware and the software of cooking innovation. Each session inside the Space Research Studio asks a simple, wildly exciting question:
What happens when you remix time-honored culinary wisdom with 21st-century smart tech?
Method Over Magic: How We Use the Space
Every corner of the Space Research Studio has a purpose. Sensors line shelving units. Wireless timers sync with AI infusion rigs. Even our ovens talk back. That’s because the studio exists to tackle hands-on research across key innovation areas:
- Smart Kitchen Integration: We test interfaces and internal networking for appliance ecosystems that communicate with clarity and speed.
- Device Calibration Experiments: Sous-vide arms, induction plates, sensor-lidded air fryers — all optimized for accuracy, energy efficiency, and precision-based taste replication.
- Gastronome-Gadget Crossovers: We track compatibility and user experience between hands-on culinary artistry and hands-off tech enhancement. If it sounds like “magic,” it’s because we worked hard to make it logical.
- Real-Time Culinary Telemetry: Monitoring liquid temp gradients? Analyzing crust development in augmented baking scenarios? We’ve probably got a sensor pointed at it and a spreadsheet brewing alongside the sauce reduction.
The mission? Make sure every culinary tool of tomorrow not only performs efficiently but complements and elevates the craft of cooking for real people — whether home chefs in Lafayette or dinner rebels in Tokyo.
Collaboration: We Stir Together Here
In true Tbtechchef style, the Research Studio doesn’t exist for observation alone. This is a shared proving ground. We welcome inventors, chefs, nutritionists, UX designers, and culinary futurists to test, challenge, iterate, and co-create.
Want to join the madness? Good. Starting a conversation here is simple: Ready your ideas. Bring your oddest prototypes. Enter humbly, experiment boldly. We believe no innovation emerged from a tidy napkin sketch alone. In this space, heat demands hypothesis — and we’re all better when we stir together.
The Tools: A Kitchen, Augmented
Yes, yes — we have the blenders and graters. But the real beauty of the Space Research Studio is its symphony of complex, exciting tools that rethink what a kitchen can do.
- Neuro-responsive prep aides that track motion speed and fatigue to help mitigate ergonomic strain.
- Multi-sensor pots and pans that report surface temp, content density, and cook-time recommendations to your personal recipe assistant app.
- Digital fermentation stations with multi-zone cortex temp regulation that optimizes enzyme activity — it’s like kombucha with intention.
- WiFi-connected hydro-extrusion units for experimental dehydrations and plant-based meat textures that go beyond meat “substitutes” and into gourmet main course territory.
Some of these are prototypes. A few are still in chalkboard stages. But all of them embody the kinds of tools that don’t just follow a recipe — they participate in it.
Testing in Action
On any given day inside the studio, you might hear the hum of a wifi-synced spice indexing unit. Or the buzz of an open-source air fryer rig adjusting its shape-memory baffles. Every beep timestamps a moment of discovery. We keep video logs, transcribed notes, audio captures, and digital reports of every kitchen test. This isn’t excess — it’s curiosity taken seriously. Our archives are vast, detailed… and absolutely mouthwatering.
From Local to Global — One Test at a Time
Though we’re proudly nestled in Louisiana’s creative cradle, the tools and techniques refined here speak globally. The Space Research Studio’s micro-tests yield macro-insights. Features and functions fine-tuned here go on to inform design thinking in wider culinary circles.
It might begin in Lafayette, over a sweet potato tortilla grilling behind a heat-flow mapped tabletop, but it might end up influencing the firmware of an induction wok in Singapore.
We like that trajectory.
Meet Our Founder — Spark Behind The Studio
Jorvanna Yelthanna started Tbtechchef not just as a brand but as a living exploration — a waypoint between culinary logic and technical experimentation. She imagined a studio where fringe curiosity was not only welcome, but expected. Her belief that digital design can elevate heritage recipes — not erase them — remains a driving philosophy in all facets of our work, especially within this lab-like zone of flavor and firmware.
Her signature? A balance between rigorous practical testing and unabashed love for the impossible idea. In her mind, the most powerful culinary technologies are neither gimmick nor shortcut — they are tools of liberation, tools that let people cook with more joy, less guesswork, and total creative command.
Want to Connect?
If you’re as curious as we are, spare no hesitation. Reach out and let’s explore what’s cooking at the edge of culinary tech. Email us anytime at [email protected] or give us a call at +1 337-849-8181. Our studio is physically grounded, but our imagination is wide open.
Open Monday to Friday, 9 AM–5 PM CST
Innovation Starts in the Smallest Stir
The Space Research Studio isn’t a passive showroom. It’s a living, breathing extension of experimentation, driven by real cooks, real tools, and bold curiosity. Our invitation? Come question everything. Reconsider what an oven ought to know. Contribute to a prototype. Taste a theory. And help us redefine how we cook, prep, and create — one pixel, one pan, one perfectly-synced sauce at a time.
Programs and cross-discipline work are happening here every day. If you’d like a peek under the apron — we’re always happy to share what simmers behind the scenes.