'Let's Pizza' machine cooks you a pie in three minutes, won't ask you to enter any contests
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted March 26th 2009 11:26PM
posted March 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.