Valve’s Gabe Newell invests in the next hot thing: your dinner, via cooking startup ChefSteps

Valve Software founder Gabe Newell, one of the most influential people in the video game industry and the king of the Steam digital distribution network, has invested in a cooking startup.

Geekwire reports that Newell invested in high-tech cooking startup ChefSteps, a Seattle startup that Chris Young and Grant Crilly lead. Both previously worked with Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer at Microsoft, on his Modernist Cuisine cookbook. Myhrvold is a big fan of the temperature-controlled water-cooking method known as sous vide.