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This is pretty neat, but why not just learn how to cook? This is the kind of idea only Silicon Valley could cook up – if you've eaten nothing but catered meals

This is pretty neat, but why not just learn how to cook? This is the kind of idea only Silicon Valley could cook up – if you've eaten nothing but catered meals your young adult life, you have no idea how to cook eggs without burning them. The solution is obviously a bluetooth enabled pan.

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icebraining 12y ago
We'll see. As a citizen of a relatively poor European countries which owns a Thermomix for every 12 households, I wouldn't bet on it being a flop.
- hackuser 12y ago
  What is a Thermomix? Wikipedia gives me the idea that it's a multifunction cooking machine, but leaves a lot of holes.
  - icebraining 12y ago
    That's essentially it. It's essentially a machine that combines a blender, mixer, steamer, slow cooker, a scale and a timer.
    - hackuser 12y ago
      Do you just drop in the raw ingredients and it processes them through those devices in serial? It is just all of those devices on one machine, no different than buying them separately? Thanks for explaining!
      - icebraining 12y ago
        It can combine functions, e.g. mix while cooking. But as far as I know, it can't do anything that you couldn't do with separate devices (like using a hand mixer and a pot), it's just more convenient.
- riffraff 12y ago
  FWIW, I am italian and while most people in my country enjoy cooking "bimby" (brand name for thermomix in IT and PT) is still relatively popular. Of course it does have the problem of costing a shit ton of money, but on the other hand it solves a far bigger problem than pantelligent (i.e. long cooking procedurs, such has slow cooking+stir frequently for 8 hours and such).
- epsylon 12y ago
  A Thermomix is actually super useful. You can cook quickly a lot of stuff that's hard / annoying to cook otherwise... Soups, crêpes / waffles dough, hot chocolate, etc... The panintelligent on the other hand is just a pan with temperature control. Any person with cooking experience won't gain too much from this.
compumike 12y ago
Our team is actually made up of both people who have never cooked for themselves and people who have cooked all their lives and love cooking. Pantelligent will never replace loving cooking. It's a tool that can make anyone's cooking better. In our beta testers, we have found that people who already cook use it as a tool to make their cooking more repeatable and stress-free, and people who don't know how to cook gain an extra super power that they didn't have before.
- qsymmachus 12y ago
  Way to make me feel like a dick, compumike
  - qsymmachus 12y ago
    ^ Before you downvote me all to hell that remark was meant to be self-deprecating

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icebraining 12y ago

We'll see. As a citizen of a relatively poor European countries which owns a Thermomix for every 12 households, I wouldn't bet on it being a flop.

hackuser 12y ago
What is a Thermomix? Wikipedia gives me the idea that it's a multifunction cooking machine, but leaves a lot of holes.
- icebraining 12y ago
  That's essentially it. It's essentially a machine that combines a blender, mixer, steamer, slow cooker, a scale and a timer.
  - hackuser 12y ago
    Do you just drop in the raw ingredients and it processes them through those devices in serial? It is just all of those devices on one machine, no different than buying them separately? Thanks for explaining!
    - icebraining 12y ago
      It can combine functions, e.g. mix while cooking. But as far as I know, it can't do anything that you couldn't do with separate devices (like using a hand mixer and a pot), it's just more convenient.
riffraff 12y ago
FWIW, I am italian and while most people in my country enjoy cooking "bimby" (brand name for thermomix in IT and PT) is still relatively popular. Of course it does have the problem of costing a shit ton of money, but on the other hand it solves a far bigger problem than pantelligent (i.e. long cooking procedurs, such has slow cooking+stir frequently for 8 hours and such).
epsylon 12y ago
A Thermomix is actually super useful. You can cook quickly a lot of stuff that's hard / annoying to cook otherwise... Soups, crêpes / waffles dough, hot chocolate, etc... The panintelligent on the other hand is just a pan with temperature control. Any person with cooking experience won't gain too much from this.

compumike 12y ago

Our team is actually made up of both people who have never cooked for themselves and people who have cooked all their lives and love cooking. Pantelligent will never replace loving cooking. It's a tool that can make anyone's cooking better. In our beta testers, we have found that people who already cook use it as a tool to make their cooking more repeatable and stress-free, and people who don't know how to cook gain an extra super power that they didn't have before.

qsymmachus 12y ago
Way to make me feel like a dick, compumike
- qsymmachus 12y ago
  ^ Before you downvote me all to hell that remark was meant to be self-deprecating