Tag: Cooking
Peanut butter machine – the gift of a guaranteed heart attack long life
If I eat too much peanut butter, it makes me come out in spots – nothing alarming but it’s not pretty either. I think there’s a lot of nut oil going on in there greasing up my skin, so unfortunately, much as I love the stuff, I don’t think this peanut butter making machine is a good idea for me.
As it goes, this device will make a paste either crunchy or smooth…
Like Japanese food? Get the Motoman industrial robot to cook it for you
Visitors to the International Next-Generation Robot Fair in Osaka who get a bit peckish can head over to the stand where the Motoman SDA10 robot has demonstrated its culinary abilities.
This two-armed robot can do a range of things, and cooking okonomiyaki is just one thing on its impressive resumé. It’s even more impressive because it can take orders from customers using speech recognition technology and then create the dish using standard kitchen utensils. It even flips the pancake-like dish…
Perfect Japanese rice, automated, with Zojirushi's "Ultimate" Rice Cooker
Compared to pasta, or a nice jacket potato, rice can be a bit of a mystery to cook. Those in the know probably use the “absorption method”, hoping that they time the cooking just right so that there’s not a horrible burnt-on sticky mess at the bottom of the pan and crunchy grains of rice at the top.
Unsurprisingly, the Japanese love affair with both technology and rice has come to the rescue, as a highly detailed article at Tech-On! proves.
Believe me, there’s not much you won’t know about cooking perfect, Japanese-style (slightly sweet and sticky) rice once you’ve read it — or indeed, how Zojirushi has perfected a machine to do it automatically.
