Cooking food is still a chore.

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TheInternet1980

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Originally posted by: nomrah
OP - I hope this never gets invented just to spite you. Being lazy is fine, but then complaining about how there isn't something to facilitate your laziness? I hope you starve to death, which you might not be far off from at 125 lbs.

:| I hate you, guy.
 

hanoverphist

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Originally posted by: Imp
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
SSIA. When will food be as easy to obtain as information?

I want to press a button on a device, and receive hot, delicious food, immediately. Or if I must, I'll wait 5-10 minutes between pressing the button, and receiving the food.

this was 60 years ago, btw allow me to introduce you to the microwave.

Microwaved food only meets 1 of the criteria. Microwaved food is hot, but it's deliciousness is debatable. :disgust:
The man does have a point.. lol

Not for people with low standards like me. Microwaved crap is delicious.

ditto. but i still cook real meals at least 4 nights a week so my kids dont grow up corn dog kids like i did. btw, stouffers mac n cheese is the bomb, so are the marie calendars meals. the new 1lb hungry mans are tasty as well. not really worth getting unless on sale tho.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Originally posted by: QueBert
"Chili Cheese Fries" and BOOM I have them instantly. Pressing a button can lead to Carpal Tunnel and you'd have to press a series of buttons to get food. Unless there was a "random" button and pressing it lead to a mystery meal.

Best idea yet.

"Random" button sounds SUPER awesome.

How bout an "I'm Feeling Lucky" button :laugh:

excellent
 

sonambulo

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Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Bump

I don't understand this thread. You want delicious food to magically emerge from a device which you are not smart enough to invent and are not willing to fund the invention of? Is this correct?
 

TheInternet1980

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Originally posted by: sonambulo
Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Bump

I don't understand this thread. You want delicious food to magically emerge from a device which you are not smart enough to invent and are not willing to fund the invention of? Is this correct?

Correct.
 

sonambulo

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Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Correct.

Well you could try shelling out cash for some actual good microwave stuff. There's plenty of it in Gourmet Stores. It ain't cheap, though.
 

kalrith

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This might have been mentioned already, but the only thing I can think that would somewhat meet your criteria is to make a big batch of something like chili and then reheat the leftovers. Chili, beans, and soup are often better the second time. To make single servings easier and to provide more variety, you could get several storage bowls that hold one meal's worth each and freeze them. If you make one big batch of something a week, you'll wind up with a variety of meals.

Making the meal initially would likely take 30 minutes, but it could provide you with 10 meals. Reheating them in the microwave would take < 5 minutes each time.
 

Lounatik

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As stated before, you are going to have to settle for a vacuum sealer. I know, I know, you do not want to actually do anything for your food, but I bet you could get about 90% of the way there by cooking everything for say, a week, and then microwaving entire meals in mere minutes. Hot, tasty and in your gut as soon as your maw can grind it down.Wall-e! Instant food!


Peace

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bignateyk

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Some people actually enjoy cooking...

Although I guess if you suck at it, it might not be too much fun. I can cook myself a pretty nice meal in 20 minutes.
 

rasczak

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How lazy can you be? Open package, place in microwave, enter time and wait? You're not looking for an easy way to cook, you're looking for a slave. Go get married already.
 

Capt Caveman

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Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Bump.

If someone invents it, it'll be a fast food company. They have the resources and the largest motivation. Until then, you're going to have to live with the horrible inconvenience.
 

oddyager

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Why is this being bumped? The only thing to come out of this thread is that you are one lazy fuck.
 

Kev

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I despise cooking. In my opinion the only purpose of food is to make me not hungry anymore, if something takes more than 10 minutes of effort it is not worth it. George Foreman grill ftw!
 

TheInternet1980

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Originally posted by: oddyager
Why is this being bumped? The only thing to come out of this thread is that you are one lazy fuck.

*shrug* I never said otherwise. So you're against food innovation? You hate my freedom.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Originally posted by: Sheik Yerbouti
Any food worth cooking, takes time. I love cooking, and when I make thanksgiving dinner, I start at 5am and the birds out at 1(ish), I usually make the stuffing the night before. Cooking is cathardic, when done well, you really have a sense of accomplishment. I try to keep my grandmother in mind when I cook, she was 5' 0", and ALWAYS had a huge meal waiting for my family (minimum of 5 people), from appetizers to home made lemon meringue pie. no place I've ever tried it comes close to hers. She's been gone close to 20 years now, but I can still smell the roast cooking and start to salivate, I hope food is never instantaneous. It won't be worth eating.

Amen.
PSA cathartic

Last night I grilled some pork tenderloins over a charcoal fire, made mushrooms stuffed with red bell pepper, onion, bread crumbs and a little of this and that. Tossed salad with radicchio, red onion and boston lettuce.

Took less than an hour start to finish and the family loved it. Of course food needs to be well prepared to enjoy, but their is another element missing from just eating. A sense of satisfaction that can only be had by some effort and knowledge. I know my efforts for that particular meal weren't Herculean, but it would be hard to beat.

There's another factor, and it isn't logical, but it's still true. The same food prepared by a machine could not possibly taste as well as if you had done it yourself or if it was made by someone who cares. That's just the way of things. Not to get too philosophical and I believe the OP is making a lighthearted post, it seems to me that the value of personal effort is being lost in favor of never doing anything worthwhile. Right now it seems we have about the perfect balance. We eat like kings with little real effort.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Machines + instantaneous, delicious food > human effort/care

No, but you don't get the point. You ask for freedom to become a slave. You won't understand that either. You wish to become the sum total of what your machines can do for you. You don't understand that the kitchen for uncounted generations has been the focus of home social life. You worry about increasing your sloth at the sacrifice of your humanity.

This is what you ask to become.

I'll pass.
 

TheInternet1980

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Pressing a button to obtain food, does not a slave make.

You're addicted to cooking. You can still have a kitchen and a home social life. You just won't have to slave away making crap.
 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: rasczak
How lazy can you be? Open package, place in microwave, enter time and wait? You're not looking for an easy way to cook, you're looking for a slave. Go get married already.
Except the markup on ready-made meals is crazy, and there's enough sodium there to kill a moose.

Thus, modify this:
Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Machines + instantaneous, delicious food > human effort/care
to this:

Machines + instantaneous, cheap, delicious food > human effort/care


Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider
Originally posted by: TheInternet1980
Machines + instantaneous, delicious food > human effort/care

No, but you don't get the point. You ask for freedom to become a slave. You won't understand that either. You wish to become the sum total of what your machines can do for you. You don't understand that the kitchen for uncounted generations has been the focus of home social life. You worry about increasing your sloth at the sacrifice of your humanity.

This is what you ask to become.

I'll pass.
If we could truly become the sum total of what our machines could do for us.....wow, that would be incredible. Our capabilities could grow exponentially, especially as artificial intelligence becomes more capable.

And it's possible to have a social life outside of the kitchen. Cooking as a group merely gives people an excuse to engage in some activity in one location. Is is possible to do this without the pretext of food preparation and consumption. If food were prepared by some machine, then it is still quite possible to engage in some social activity, and perhaps do something more.....productive than the mundane act of preparing a fuel source.

That's my take on it, at any rate. Food = fuel. There's no ritual or social act during the refining of crude oil into gasoline, nor is there anything special about putting the fuel into your car. Likewise, making food, and eating it, really isn't anything special. Just something else that needs to get done.


Point is though, the freedom gained by independence from the need to prepare food doesn't necessarily mean that one must become some kind of slave, or that it will detract from a person. If that's the argument, then you could also say that the use of automation in any aspect of our lives is a bad thing. Heck, doing laundry might have at one time been a social occasion, as women would gather around a single water source to spend hours cleaning clothing manually. Should we do away with washing machines, and go back to the "good old days" of hard manual labor?
Or working fields - men, often enslaved, could come up with lovely songs of misery and anguish as they toiled away for hours in unpleasant conditions. Now we have the sounds of diesel-fueled machinery. Bring back the old, or embrace the new?