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Nifty Kitchen Appliances

Posted by emmett on from the food-a-rack-a-cycle dept.

Project Gamma writes "Techserver reports about how being lazy just got easier. Too lazy to read the directions on that TV dinner? Soon you may not have to. Your microwave oven will do it for you with the swipe of the package bar code across a special sensor." Okay, fine, but will it E-mail me when it wants me to stir it?

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  1. Re:Will it decide what's best for me? by wnissen · · Score: 4

    Okay, so that was a joke, but seriously, can't you see a net connected microwave reporting back to the manufacturer what kinds of foods you're eating? WebVan could buy ad space on your screen, trying to sell you a more expensive kind of the food you already eat. "Hmmm, she's eating cheap Marukan ramen, I wonder if we can get her to upgrade to Nissin cup o'noodles?"

    The bottom line is that more smart devices means more potential for abuse. Hell, thanks to the club cards, the store knows what I buy anyway, so they could track the food pattern back to the IP of my microwave...

    Walt

  2. Enhanced directions for the average American by CausticPuppy · · Score: 4

    You are underestimating the stupidity of the average American. Otherwise, we wouldn't need instructions such as "heat and serve" on a can of soup. "Uhhh... how am I supposed to eat what's in this here metal can?"
    So, to add to your microwave cooking directions:
    6) When microwave dings, open the door and remove the food. It might be hot, because you have just been cooking it.
    7) Peel the plastic film off the tray. It might be hot, because you have just been cooking it.
    8) Insert a fork into the food in a scooping fashion. You might need to use the fork to break certain food items into smaller pieces first.
    9) Lift the fork towards your face, while making sure the food stays on the fork. Put the fork partially into your mouth, so that the food comes off of the fork and into your mouth. The food might be hot, because you have just been cooking it. Do not eat the fork. Do not stick the fork into your eye.
    10) Repeat steps 8 and 9 until there is no food left on the tray, or you are no longer hungry. WARNING: Attempting to continue eating when you are no longer hungry may result in vomiting.

    --
    -CausticPuppy "Of all the people I know, you're certainly one of them." -Somebody I don't know
  3. This won't last... by MattMann · · Score: 5
    This will never last. Everybody knows in the future our best computers will still not have solved all the problems of natural language recognition, and we will have to ask for our foods backwards: computer, tea, Earl Grey, hot.

    Attempts to keep track of preferences between sessions all fail in the food realm because for most meals people reject cookies.