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>100 years from now, will humans still be cooking food? Or will that be regulated to machines? Of course we will. Cooking is not just enjoyable, but a unique

>100 years from now, will humans still be cooking food? Or will that be regulated to machines? Of course we will. Cooking is not just enjoyable, but a unique expression of someone's personality. I come from a food-oriented Italian family and your entire comment just blows my mind.

eafkuor 5y ago
I'm also Italian (from Italy, not "my great grandpa was half Italian"), if some robot can make me parmigiana di melanzane as good as I can make it, I'll never cook it again.
- 2muchcoffeeman 5y ago
  You’ll spend the same the same amount of time cleaning it instead.
- Yoric 5y ago
  I'm French. I find cooking relaxing.
DantesKite 5y ago
I should've put it another way. I imagine a hundred years from now, an overwhelming amount of the time, machines will cook food for humans just because it's easier. But I imagine people will still occasionally cook for themselves, the same way people still play chess against other humans.
- AussieWog93 5y ago
  You're probably right - Uber Eats et al have already shown that there's demand for this even at high prices. Yet another simple human pleasure sacrificed at the altar of efficiency... (To anyone in Australia or with an Aussie VPN, there's a wonderful Bluey episode about this here: https://iview.abc.net.au/video/CH1903Q034S00 https://iview.abc.net.au/video/CH1903Q034S00)
  - _carbyau_ 5y ago
    Bluey is great, and as a parent it is relatable in so many ways. But I don't think your link points at a particular episode. At least, not for me. Name of episode?
    - AussieWog93 5y ago
      My apologies. Bin Night. Classic Bandit episode that touches upon the importance of the mundane things we do.
- femto 5y ago
  Don't we already have that, in the form of the numerous food delivery services? You can log into your "machine" (ie. phone) and order whatever you want. It then magically appears at your front door. It doesn't pop out of a door in the front of the machine, but isn't the effect the same? The "machine" hasn't eliminated cooking today and I doubt that it will have in 100 years. Personally I've never used an Internet based delivery service, as I prefer home cooking for a number of reasons. I suspect that ease is only a minor factor in food choice. Food is also complex, in that there are so many combinations. Given 50 possible ingredients, there are a huge number of possibilities (plus interactions between ingredients) if you choose 6 of them to make a meal. How do you capture that in a machine, even neglecting that cooking technology continues to evolve?
petra 5y ago
We enjoy the results of cooking: the food, the experience, the compliments we get. We also enjoy improving our skill. But we would be happy to have a mechanical sous-chef who will do all the work and let us focus on the fun creative parts. And that's only if, there won't be a more enjoyable, activity to do. And for most meals, we would even prefer not to bother at all.
- AussieWog93 5y ago
  Look up the Thermomix. It does a lot of those things for you automatically. It also has a manufacturing fault that gives you third degree burns and the company tried to avoid recalling it, but there's almost certainly a good competitor product out there.

eafkuor 5y ago

I'm also Italian (from Italy, not "my great grandpa was half Italian"), if some robot can make me parmigiana di melanzane as good as I can make it, I'll never cook it again.

2muchcoffeeman 5y ago
You’ll spend the same the same amount of time cleaning it instead.
Yoric 5y ago
I'm French. I find cooking relaxing.

DantesKite 5y ago

I should've put it another way. I imagine a hundred years from now, an overwhelming amount of the time, machines will cook food for humans just because it's easier. But I imagine people will still occasionally cook for themselves, the same way people still play chess against other humans.

AussieWog93 5y ago
You're probably right - Uber Eats et al have already shown that there's demand for this even at high prices. Yet another simple human pleasure sacrificed at the altar of efficiency... (To anyone in Australia or with an Aussie VPN, there's a wonderful Bluey episode about this here: https://iview.abc.net.au/video/CH1903Q034S00 https://iview.abc.net.au/video/CH1903Q034S00)
- _carbyau_ 5y ago
  Bluey is great, and as a parent it is relatable in so many ways. But I don't think your link points at a particular episode. At least, not for me. Name of episode?
  - AussieWog93 5y ago
    My apologies. Bin Night. Classic Bandit episode that touches upon the importance of the mundane things we do.
femto 5y ago
Don't we already have that, in the form of the numerous food delivery services? You can log into your "machine" (ie. phone) and order whatever you want. It then magically appears at your front door. It doesn't pop out of a door in the front of the machine, but isn't the effect the same? The "machine" hasn't eliminated cooking today and I doubt that it will have in 100 years. Personally I've never used an Internet based delivery service, as I prefer home cooking for a number of reasons. I suspect that ease is only a minor factor in food choice. Food is also complex, in that there are so many combinations. Given 50 possible ingredients, there are a huge number of possibilities (plus interactions between ingredients) if you choose 6 of them to make a meal. How do you capture that in a machine, even neglecting that cooking technology continues to evolve?

petra 5y ago

We enjoy the results of cooking: the food, the experience, the compliments we get. We also enjoy improving our skill. But we would be happy to have a mechanical sous-chef who will do all the work and let us focus on the fun creative parts. And that's only if, there won't be a more enjoyable, activity to do. And for most meals, we would even prefer not to bother at all.

AussieWog93 5y ago
Look up the Thermomix. It does a lot of those things for you automatically. It also has a manufacturing fault that gives you third degree burns and the company tried to avoid recalling it, but there's almost certainly a good competitor product out there.