Cooking Machine Lets Multiple Chefs Phone in Instructions for a Single Dish

So a question was posed among five individuals: “What if new technology was used to vitalise cooking instead of just simplifying the process and replacing the craftsmanship?” Swedish designers Christian Isberg and Petter Johansson Kukacka came together with chef Carl Berglöf and programmer Lasse Korsgaard to participate in a culinary social experiment that explored whether a chef needed to physically be present to create a signature dish.

The team built a cooking mechanism that features a 35-ingredient dispenser filled with different herbs, spices and meats. The machine featured heating coils, timers and seasoning dispensers. It pretty much covered all the functions of a fully operational kitchen. Everything is managed and controlled by a team of up to five chefs simultaneously through computers and smartphones in a tag-team collaboration. The idea is to see if chefs can react to what their colleagues decide to do with the dish and figure out how to expand upon it based on knowledge and experience rather than taste.

Turns out chefs can cook together without direct communication. By working together on a digital platform, the chefs opened a dialogue amongst one another during the cooking process. A command box even records each command by a chef as a way to record the process for future study. Because of this discovery it’s now possible that chefs can prepare dishes from across the world using nothing more than an iPhone.

Yet, here I am, barely able to order a pizza online.

H/T First We Feast