Well, this robot is supposed to increase productivity and hygiene, however, there’s one little detail that I found interesting: the workers feeding the pancakes to the machine are doing so with their bare hands, they are not wearing gloves. That does not compute if you are actually trying to increase hygiene.
WHOa!==make that 1.5 teaspoons of baking powder. I musta been thinking scones when I typed that.
Great Chefs must be an untapped source of wisdom. They know/learn/deal with the results of many variables constantly interacting with one another==all regardless of what the Chef’s own dreams and motivations may be. Hard to come to grips with that reality all day long over the hot stove and then come home to think about social issues in any other way????? Unless you gotta go down to the basement and visit your locked up daughter that is.
Ok, maybe Chef’s are just like the rest of us.
#13–RTaylor==that reminds me of that plant that blew up in Bhopal India a few years back? I think part of the problem is that it was designed with technology that was 50 years old in order to employ more people==so fewer automatic valves and what not, leading to the explosion. The plans for such plants can’t be found anymore which has lead to India joining the first world as a force in manufacturing.
Yep==its all social planning brought to you by our good elected folks operating on the net of their conflicts of interest.
Why would a robot stake (see title of article) the pancakes anyway? Are they blood sucking pancakes?
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#19 You left out the buttermilk.
Pedro–yes I did. Or even “milk.” I had some buttermilk left over from making cheese and tried it in the pancakes. I could not taste it at all so I see no reason to pay extra for it. I’ll use it when I have it to get rid of it, but thats about it.
Once you have any “recipe” at all, its fun to play with the other variables, and it really does get mind blowing: how hot the gridle is before you pour the batter, the temperature profile during the cooking of the pancake, how much moisture is in the batter, olive oil vs butter vs lard. When I can “taste” the difference in the above variables, and not taste the difference between milk and buttermilk, I think that is “telling.” Many recipes put an “emphasis” on using buttermilk. I don’t think it is warranted, and how buttermilk supposedly activates baking powder/vs Soda doesn’t make a difference from what I can tell.
Further funny—I can “get into food” in this detail, or just eat any crap to get filled up. All depends on my mindset going into the meal. Kinda like this blog?
Has the midnight shift hacked into the robot and programmed it to arrange the pancakes into words such as:
DONUTS RULE!
HELLO CARL THIS IS GOD
WILL YOU MARRY ME?
This technology was actually bought from Hewlett-Packard after they discovered that there was no market for a .08 dpi dot matrix printer.
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wait…what sort of f*cked up world are we living in that it is necessary for a factory to make pancakes, for a machine to stack them, and for ungloved workers to stand there watching a machine.
This makes even less sense than the reality that all our steel mills have gone overseas (to China), that the only thing “made in america” is junk food and cheap swill, and the only jobs to be had are either a.) government, b.) fast food, or c.) paper pushers
I have one thing to say: don’t eat fast food, don’t by the packaged frozen pancakes, and stop being a stupid consumer.