Cooking is tedious...

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...it's just chucking the same amount of this and that togeather depending on whatever I'm cooking. So why can't we just get a machine to do it? 30 different meals, 10 deserts perhaps? Hit the buttons when you go to work and come home to a nice dinner. Pleeeeeeeease tell me such a machine exists!

Sorry if this makes no sense but I've just consumed an entire bottle of white wine this afternoon.

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rpguk said:

I'm with the OP. I exist mainly on takeaway (not always crap!), microwave meals, sandwiches etc. Cooking is ultimately a few different methods of processing ingredients (shake, chop, sprinkle etc) and I'm sure the technology is there for a microwave style cooking but using robotic techniques to actually prepare the food (a microwave meal fails because it's prepared in a way which allows all the elements to be cooked in a uniform cooking time). I think we are at a stage where all the elements could be housed in something the size of a conventional cooker.

We have automated hoovers and breadmakers already, why not cooking machines?

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R5GTTGAZ said:

scumbagjag said:

speedy_thrills said:

rpguk said:

I'm with the OP. I exist mainly on takeaway (not always crap!), microwave meals, sandwiches etc. Cooking is ultimately a few different methods of processing ingredients (shake, chop, sprinkle etc) and I'm sure the technology is there for a microwave style cooking but using robotic techniques to actually prepare the food (a microwave meal fails because it's prepared in a way which allows all the elements to be cooked in a uniform cooking time). I think we are at a stage where all the elements could be housed in something the size of a conventional cooker.

We have automated hoovers and breadmakers already, why not cooking machines?

Err, they're called women aren't they?

Yeah, thats the thing with this mechanical cooking machine thats just been thought up.

It ain't gonna suck you cock is it?

No but it'll free up your wifes time a bit .

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Don said:

Why is this st thread in here? It was st in the P&P and it's twice as st now.

I love you too and appreciate your contribution.

Plotloss said:

I find the idea of a cooking machine quite repulsive.

I bet people said that very thing when the first cars/dishwashers/telephones/electric washing machines came out.

10 Pence Short said:

Arguments like the OPs are usually made by people who need to learn the basics, enabling them to make good simple meals quickly and cheaply.

Actually I'm quite reasonable at cooking.

I love cooking and eating with others as much as the next person, everyone should learn to cook. However it should be something you enjoy doing now and then, not obligated. Machines removed many repetative chores from our lives is this one last step beyond the ability of our greatest engineers and scientific minds? We have machines that can peel potatoes, chop veg etc. so technically you don't have to reinvent the wheel but amalgamate many processes into one machine. We have already done the hard work .

A vision of the future from 1968, remember the breakfast scene in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"?

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Plotloss said:

A cooking machine however deprives you of the joy of cooking in the name of bland convenience and is therefore not comparable with your hideous invention wish.

Yet people buy take-away food which deprives them of the "joy" of cooking and isn't even perticularly healthy often?

If someone invented a cheap levitating car tomorrow would we stop driving on our roads completely as we changed cars or just start using the roads for recreational purposes, really enjoying the thrill of driving? This would allow us to really rediscover the enthusiasm and joy we derive from cooking . Electric lights didn't kill the candle but we discovered the romance of a flickering flame and the allure of the atmosphere it creates .