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I think it's so weird that cooking robots don't exist. Most tasks that you perform to cook are repetitive and mostly foolproof, and I say this as someone who tr
by anjc 11y ago
I think it's so weird that cooking robots don't exist. Most tasks that you perform to cook are repetitive and mostly foolproof, and I say this as someone who trained as a cook. Certain things maybe can't be automated, like seasoning to taste. But I mean...It's weird that you can't throw a bunch of raw vegetables into some sort of box and soup pops out an hour or two later. Wash, peel, chop, heat, simmer, bam. Slow cookers are cool, but the actual cooking part is easy regardless, it's the prep which takes up most time and seems automatable. They obviously automate it at an industrial level.
Maybe there's just no demand for it.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoI recall hearing that the first Betty Crocker cake mix didn't sell well. It was very convenient - just add water, stick it in a pan, and bake. People didn't like it. After running some focus groups, Betty Crocker found out that it was too convenient - people didn't feel like they had done any "cooking". So Betty Crocker reformulated it so that you had to add eggs, not just water, and then it became a huge success. People want cooking convenient, but many people still want to feel like they cooked.
- anjc 11y agoYes! I've heard this story. The supposed black-box of consumer buying-behaviour is weird indeed.