'Let's Pizza' machine cooks you a pie in three minutes, won't ask you to enter any contests
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Mar 26th 2009 11:26PM
posted Mar 26th 2009 11:26PM
Bob Bibleman has had bad luck with technology lately. The last time a robot cooked for him he found himself involved in some sort of quasi-military intrigue, and his robot lawnmower sure seems like it's up to something. But when ol' Bob ran across a report in the Times (UK) that a venerable Italian gentleman named Claudio Torghele had invented "Let's Pizza" -- a machine that makes pizza from scratch, in three minutes -- he decided to give technology one more chance. The device sports a glass window through which you can watch the machine mix and knead the dough, spin it into shape, add the sauce and toppings, and cook it to perfection. A pie will run you about €3.50 (or just under five bucks), and the machine is due to hit the streets sometime this summer. Now that Mr. Bibleman has that sorted out, maybe he'll be brave enough to let technology help him with other areas of his life -- we hear that JDate's really something.
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Epic
agreed
at first I was like :D then I was like :]
I came
I got a mental image of a regular vendo machine serving pizzas.
The pizza falls down the machine and when the person gets it, the pizza is mashed up.
I'll take 2 in my room.
I saw
i conquered
Have you seen the fresh ice cream machine? It mixes flavour and creme on a stone and serves it. There's a few on college campuses back east.
I've seen a pizza vending machine in the SLC Airport. It just nukes them, doesn't make 'em from scratch.
A made from scratch pizza for under $5 in only 3 minutes on the corner of the street? THE FUTURE IS OFFICIALLY HERE!
This is pretty much the best thing ever.
Agreed... OH MY GOD the reality of this thing just came rushing to me all at once and I shit my pants. Dear god, pizza vending machine..... dear god. Bring one to LSU campus! I promise I'll pay for it myself in a year of pizza sales alone!
Ladies and gentlemen... we've done it.
Congratulations mankind!
This even beats Suicide booths!
wouldn't it be faster to have ready made pizza and then just cook it?
One small cheese for man, one large half mushroom, half sausage and tomato for mankind.
Where's the love?
The pics look like a bad photoshop from fark. lol
Is that guy a cardboard cutout?
It is photoshopped onto pictures from the movie Bladerunner.
Pizza - Final Cut
What gives! The original picture looked fine, and someone has put a crappy background behind it for no apparent reason.
this reminds me of that pizza machine they had in the ninja turtles.
Best vending machine ever!!
All it needs to do now is dispense beer.
Aww now you made me wish I lived in Japan. They've been doing that for years now.
I don't wanna say repost. but i've definately seen this before.
My Italian Grandmother is rolling over in her grave right about now
Pizza Machine: I make'a you'a pizza and offend'a your'a sensibilities, just like'a momma used to do.
What, no comment on the guy's last name? It's BIBLEMAN to the rescue!!!
...to create a pizza vending machine.
Is there a video of the pizza machine in action?
To answer my question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFfKeLGuuw
And that video quite clearly states the preparation time to be 2.5 minutes!
gasp, 3 minutes... that's far to long. I want it done as soon as I put my money in!!!!
Mind reading lasers for preemptive pizza or I'm not interested!
Precognitave Pepperoni Pizza Preparation is a Particularly Pernicious and Prodigiously Problematic Proposition.
Hydrate level four, please
I couldn't have said it any better myself. =)
i came to these comments specifically looking for this.
Boy mom, you sure can hydrate a pizza...
watching a little tv for a change son?
How do you bake a pizza in 3 minutes? How do you bake ANYTHING in 3 minutes for that matter?
More importantly, this is supposed to make the pizza from scratch and ALSO bake it in 3 minutes?
Who said anything about baking? This baby steams it!
Microwaves. I recommend you put your face as close to the viewing window as possible.
Go to my roommate's room with a headband and a Led Zeppelin CD and I guarantee you'll be baked within 3 minutes.
Uuuuh, Have you seen how pizza is made in places like Dominos? They use hot air to cook the pizza while is passes though, doesn't take that long.
"Scratch" to them probably means the ingredients are frozen separately (as opposed to an already-made pizza being frozen), then they're tossed onto the frozen pizza dough, and then it's nuked with microwaves for three minutes.
I have no idea how it's supposed to work but from the video Spiraling Shape posted, not only does it show what appears to be fresh dough spin-mixing from powdered ingredients and water but the machine itself says you'll have your pizza in only two and a half minutes.
Making a pizza from scratch takes less than 3 minutes for a pizza cook if the dough and ingredients are ready and cut. So I am sure this machine can do this - make the dough, cut and add the ingredients.
It must have some sort of super speed bake built in though because baking definitely takes more than 5 minutes at the local pizza joint.
must see a video of this in action.
Where can I buy one? :)
I'd be so fat and broke if there was one of those in my area.
It probably has one of those machines Starbucks have these days. The store my gf works in has one. It microwaves, bakes, and one other thing, toast maybe, all at the same thing. It makes a perfect breakfast sandwich from frozen in 50 seconds.
With a name like that, shouldn't he be selling books door to door or something?
"Excuse me, can I tell you about my religion?"
*SLAM*
I want one in my kitchen. Maybe my fiancee will let me put it on our wedding registry =)
YOUR FIANCEE!!!! Wow, he is a lucky man.
Oh man. This is really something. There's no turning back for humanity now, were going to get fatter and fatter without stopping it.
Durr didnt tombstone start making these machines several years ago?
Am I missing something? A pizza isn't a pie..
The Earth is round. Round. There are land masses on it other than North America. Can you say, "Europe?" How about, "Australia?"
I am Australian mate... =/
I concluded Americans call a pizza a pie or something crazy. I certainly do not were using Pizza and Pie interchangeably.. Anyway, a pizza has nothing on a good meat pie!
You're right, a pizza is not a pie.
lern2english america
"Pizza Pie" is sometimes used in a slang sort of way.
Plus there is a song that goes:
"When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie,
That's Amore" (Amore meaning love in italian of course)
In "Let's Pizza", which is the noun, and which is the verb? Is that an abbreviation or a contraction? I'm confused. Let doesn't sound like a name, but Pizza isn't mean to be a verb.
"Have you tried Let's Pizza?" vs. "Let's pizza all night long!"
Let us Pizza!
Let and Pizza are the verbs and us is the noun... I think
"Bob Bibleman has had bad luck with technology lately."
Must be the name.
Bibleman, Bibleman,
doing whatever the Bible can
Picture on the right:
"Yeah thats right bitches, its a motherfucking pizza"
"It's a motherfucking soggy pizza."
That's what she said.
Put a few in the dorm and you'll ruin all the restaurants around campus.
Dude, you just gave out a brilliant idea
Isn't Bibleman some kind of Christian superhero?
so 3 minutes. this is efficiant how? granted 3 minutes for a pizza is quick no doubt about it. But you think that if these get put into schools like every other vending machine does, how many do you think they would need to keep a school of say 5000(extremely low for a university or college in larger cities) fed for a lunch hour. What amount of heat would these things have to produce? Im sure the cost of the electricity bill on the machines behalf is compensated for in the price of the pizza. But theoretically speaking would the cost of air conditioning a proper eating facility for the students not cost a fortune? Or is that made up for with the fact that in the winter they would never have to turn on the heat so long as those machines are running.
This wouldn't be useful for lunch hour or any serious volume- but it *would* be awesome to have if you were working late and everything nearby was closed- I'd take a pizza machine dinner over chips from a vending machine easily
The lunch lady can't spoil my lunch anymore!
Somebody already though of this...
http://brog.engrish.com/2009/03/26/lets-pizza-together/
just found a Video :o) .. nice
forgot the link *G*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFfKeLGuuw
Bring 20 (for outside dorms as well as outside classes for quickie lunches while running to class) to University of Southern California, let us use our student meal plans, and we will make you very, very rich.
It's true - USC stands for the University of Spoiled Children =D
this kills Kramer's idea
Noble Roman's (Yay!! and Yum!) has had some automated pizza cooker/vend for some time now.
2003
http://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-indiana/504184-1.html
I have never seen one, though.
Ok maybe it was a test but we had this machine when I was at Brown in 2005 in the basement of Fraunce house. I distinctly remember voting for it on student council. So if by "hit the street in summer" you mean years ago well then maybe yes.
SWEET! lol
I used to own "gourmet" coffee vending machines. The machines would grind the beans, mix in, milk, chocolate whatever you wanted and it was delicious. If I did not clean those things every 3 days they would smell like something died in there. I cannot imagine how much maintenance would be required of a product that uses 2 "alive" ingredients, old yeasty dough pieces and clogged cheese, let alone the bits of pepperoni that will get stuck in the crevices. I am sure that this would be great as a supplement to a cafeteria, where someone can get to it regularly. But I would not use it if had been just dropped somewhere.
I want the consumer model (Back to the Future 2)
FINALLY! I thought nobody was gonna make a BTTF reference..
I read this story last night and then I had a dream about it last night. I was working at a grocery store and they had one of these and I got a pizza for my break. I also had to change a lot of light bulbs.
Boy you boy, mom, you sure can hydrate a pizza.
Why is this a big deal? If you go to YouTube and search for "pizza machine" you find a handful of other vending machines that do the EXACT SAME THING. Apparently, there is nothing new about this concept.
It was said that this thing uses infra-red heating elements to bake the Pizza. I use these in my job to dry a wet paper sheet flying by at 70km/h. Baking that Pizza crispy in under a minute would be no problem whatsoever... And MAN do I want...sidewalk in front of my house would be nice
They are forgetting one thing - an ice-cold beer vending machine next to it... other then that it's an amazing feat of modern technology.
Oh my god! Send some to Kansas so I can eat something other than a 24 hour mcdonalds.
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