In The Verge’s “Whirlpool Imagines a Kitchen of The Future with a Touchscreen Stovetop” Dante D’Orazio examines what the future home kitchen could look like in an age of advanced technology that doesn’t just stop at our smart phones. What about smart kitchens with smart work surfaces and fool proof utensils that prevent you from overcooking, or under cooking your favorite Grandmother’s recipe. Instead of pulling out granny’s dirty and ripped index cards to make her famous Chicken ala King, your work surface pulls up the archived recipe and you never have to worry about missing a step, because the whole thing is programmed in your kitchen. Sure, it takes the guess work out of it, and would likely result in a superior meal, but does taking the thought away from the kitchen cheapen it? To answer that question, you’d have to answer the question, what makes a good cook? Is it someone who can read and execute a recipe perfectly? Or is it someone who uses a recipe as a starting block, and along the way makes tweaks and changes that make sense for them? If the final result is delicious, does it really matter if a robot guided us to the perfection or not?
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