Can't cook? Employ the Intelligent Spoon

No amount of hours spent in front of Iron Chef and Good Eats will a good chef make, friends, but perhaps one might consider the employment of one MIT Media Lab experiment by Connie Cheng and Leonardo Bonanni: the Intelligent Spoon. This, um, intelligent spoon has zinc, gold, zener diode, and aluminum sensors to detect the temperature, acidity, salinity, and viscosity levels of the human-feed it's currently stirring, which it then sends back to a host computer for processing and direction. We're not sure this would help us to add a certain subtlety or trans-cultural flavor adaptation to the sweetbreads we were planning on whipping up tonight, but it might just do the trick in keeping you from over-salting that pancake mix on a Saturday morning.

[Via The Raw Feed]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 12th 2006 7:12PM]

lol maybe ctrl+alt+chicken could use one of these

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 12th 2006 7:15PM]

it looks like the handle has scotch tape on it...why???

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 12th 2006 7:59PM]

i make my pancakes from scratch, thankyouverymuch. *smile*

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 12th 2006 8:10PM]

Good Eats; most excellent show. Alton Brown would likely love one of these spoons, if only for the sake of keeping it next to his IR temperature gun.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 12th 2006 8:46PM]

mmmm sweet breads, yo momma

[WhereAmI Posted Apr 12th 2006 9:54PM]

Molly, its a thing made at MIT, everything is held together with scotch tape.

[larc63 Posted Apr 12th 2006 10:40PM]

sounds cool... but... won't it make EVERYTHING taste the same ? if everything has the same ratio of salt, sugar, acids and oils... you're basically making the same thing... food's meant to be imperfect.. let's keep it that way...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 12th 2006 10:55PM]

Sweetbreads are glands, specifically the thymus. Sweetmeats are sweet or candied foods.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 12th 2006 11:53PM]

Agree w/ Lee ... love 'Good Eats' ... truly underrated show

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 13th 2006 12:00AM]

speaking of good eats i saw this spoon on tv a night or two ago on the 'kitchens of the future' special on foodnetwork hosted by alton brown- in regards to the tape, the spoon was taped together and the guy showing it opened it up at one point

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 13th 2006 12:18AM]

yeap sweet

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 13th 2006 12:40AM]

I saw this spoon demoed on a Food Channel show Tuesday night hosted by Alton Brown. Great show but I must say the MIT stuff was the DUMBEST part of the show. A spoon that tells you how much salt you added. My grandmother had one and her grandmother did too. It was called a measuring spoon. All the MIT stuff was a soultion to a problem that doesn't exist. I cracked up when the professor from MIT had to run across the room to see what the spoon was telling him.

Gary

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 13th 2006 12:41AM]

Yeah, but if you're shitty cook to start off with, you'll just be a pH-balanced shitty cook out some coinage.

Sweetbreads are nasty man, wasn't Hannibal Lecter nawing these things offa people in Red Dragon?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 13th 2006 1:19AM]

This will go well with the MIT rolling alarm clock.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 13th 2006 1:27AM]

AHHHHH how I love Good eats I even met alton!!!! YAY ME ! he's just as funny in rel life as on the show

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 13th 2006 2:32AM]

Make your tea PH balanced.. strong enough for a man, but brewed for a woman.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 13th 2006 12:55PM]

Did you guys see the talking oven mitt?

-- Elias

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 13th 2006 1:23PM]

In a quest to make life easier, we've just made it harder. What once took 1 minutes to stir up some batter now takes 5 because the vescocity just isn't quite right yet.... LAME!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 13th 2006 7:38PM]

i saw this on food channel the other night, gary is right, this thing needs some real life development. the guy doing the demo, pours salt in the bowl of mix, walks over to the computer, waits, then says, "the spoon says there's salt in there" uh, duh...

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 17th 2006 10:31PM]

i just cant make a chocolate chip cookie worth a crap! they are never chewy, crunchy or crisp. they always come out like a biscuit. what the hell am i doing wrong, for the last 24 years i am not kidding you.
julie