While we can only assume that "kitchen-safe" means that it won't melt when tossed accidentally in the oven nor be fazed by splattering hot grease, we'd still exercise a good deal of caution when reading off of the Demy digital recipe reader. Crafted by Key Ingredient, this here device packs a sealed 7-inch display, storage for up to 2,500 recipes and USB connectivity for syncing with your PC. Furthermore, it provides three
kitchen timers, a measurement conversion calculator and an ingredient substitution dictionary to get cooks out of a pinch if they are one special ingredient short. Currently, the device is listed as "shipping soon" from Amazon, though we'd probably start scrounging up those three Benjamins if you hope to own one free and clear whenever "soon" turns to "now."
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posted Mar 30th 2009 9:22AM
my laptop's stand keeps it out of harms way and doesn't cost much. last.fm and the web for recipes. easy.
What do you mean by 2500 recipes? Is this 1985?
Right? I came here just for that. They're just text files... they must've slapped a 3.5" floppy drive in it.
Flash memory is pretty cheap now, 2500 recipes is unacceptable. You can make 500 kinds of mashed potatoes for god's sake.
I use my eeePC for this and it works great. eeePCs are cheaper, but not "kitchen safe".
But will it tell you how to blend?
Probably not, their isn't enough space!
Sweet avatar btw, but the book totally, totally, TOTALLY pwns the movie.
Totally.
Indeed it does. In fact, I just acquired the gold-gilted version yesterday. Too scared to read it, for fear of marring it's auric glory.
The only thing the movie added to the H2G2 experience is Alan Fucking Rickman, born to play the paranoid android.
Picture indicates it'll be available exclusively at Newegg
I see what you did there.
My solution is one one part Mac Mini, one part Samsung 19" LCD TV/monitor. Wireless internet, all my recipes, much bigger screen, and the ability to watch the news while I eat breakfast.
Am I the only person who hates how people display their tech products these days? Nice, super colorful, shiny, but in a white place with no walls. Oh, but it has to have a shadow too. Grrr.
ok, unless they figured out how this thing can cook instead of you there is no way that it will revolutionize ANY part of the way you cook. Sorry Engadget but you're dead wrong ... again ...
I kind of like the idea but I'm not exactly sure how it works. Where do you get the recipes from? Do you have to type them in yourself?
Does it automatically adjust the ingredients and instructions to match the number of servings you're making?
Is nobody offended by the dead baby in that picture?
Somewhere a kid in Africa is crying because the egg that they would have been his only meal for the day is used to help sell a 500.00 gadget.
Dairy farms limit the access of roosters to the hens, so the eggs you buy in the store are not fertilized. That is no more a dead baby than the panty waste that your sister throws out at the the end of every month.
@Matt Mulligan
You didn't look close enough. He wasn't talking about the egg!
http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=demyrecipereaderbaby.jpg
Are you kidding $300.00 for that. You can get an Acer Aspire 1 with 160g hd for $300.00 and it will play music while you cook or watch a video. And it can crush the 2500 limit. Why why why woud anyone buy that....?
Kitchen safe.
Can the Aspire One (great netbook btw) survive:
- Spills?
- Hot oil splatters?
- The other dangers of the kitchen?
not to mention... can it handle your mom's cooking?
Most people do have at least SOME safe space in their kitchen where they're unlikely to spill hot oil or splatter ingredients... Maybe you're just a particularly explosive cook?
I think the screen needs to be flush with the housing - the way it is now, all sorts of food will get in those corners, gunk up and breed all sorts of dangerous food poisoning viruses.
Nasty.
I just use my iPhone. Safari pointed to cooksillustrated.com*, the Units app standing by for conversion, the Clock app's timer... er... timing, and the iPod entertaining me while my stuff bakes (or, better still, the Remote app controlling my iTunes music library which is being piped to my Airport Express, connected to the speakers atop my fridge). Is it "kitchen-safe"? Well, I can always pop it in my pocket when the going gets rough. All that for the price of this thing.
*The best/geekiest recipe site on the face of the earth. Seriously.
I usually use my G1 to look up recipes, but I'm always worried about getting the screen all sticky by touch-screen scrolling while I'm cooking.
@ Special K - What happens when you want to look at the timer, then look at the recipe again. then go back to the timer? ie Multi Tasking?
@krs360: I don't know about your bullshit device, but with the iPhone, I can run the timer in the background, while checking a recipe.
I make delicious brownies with a special ingredient not found in this device.
booyaa.
Thanks but I think I'll stick with a book. I realise that these paper-things are an antiquated concept these days but they work very well in the kitchen, particularly when you Bookmark them (read: stick a bit of paper in them).
Looks interesting actually as having my entire laptop in my kitchen is a bit cumbersome, but unless it can interface with existing recipe software (MacGourmet for myself) I won't be purchasing it.
D-UH. They just missed mother's day.
Would have made a great gift...
I can't figure out why a 7" photoframe costs $69 and a 7" photoframe that shows recipes costs $300.
Say what you want about this thing, but my wife would ABSOLUTELY love it. She loves gadgets and cooking and organization. And she does NOT want to drag a laptop into the kitchen and possibly have it ruined. In fact as soon as it's available I WILL be buying her one. She will LOVE IT!!
Those geniuses can't even keep a website running that will allow one to register an account to get more information. If that's any indication of how their company runs, I'm sure this PoS would break before it shipped. Too bad, I was thinking of picking up a few for family members.
All of the info is at www.mydemy.com. They also have a cool 3D thing.
I know. When I try to register I get the error message, "Too Much Salt
Sorry, something didn't work right. We'll fix the problem ASAP."
Same error message for over 3 hours.. Their Quality Control department must have the day off.
If a company can't run something as simple as a website, there's no way I'm going to trust a $300 machine they make.
$300 and no effin Wifi sync? What kind of bullshit device.
My thoughts exactly.
Ok, here is the deal: In discussions with them it appears the concept is somewhat one sided. All recipes have to be uploaded via typing them in on-line. Yup, no file transfer or conversion for existing recipe programs. Oh there is a scanning service but catch this: its $19.95 for 50 recipes and then $0.39 for each afterwards. All recipes remain on their server but you can provide security...... Seems to me they should have done a decent amount of market research before they went off and created this thing.
This is exactly the kind of gratuitous gadget I need in the middle of a recession.
Can someone reply to this post with a software only solution to this. I think the idea is cool, especially with the converter and timers, but I just want software like this. Please reply if you can help.
The last piece of the doomsday puzzle, Muhuhahahahaha!!
Obviously these guys have never cooked! Anybody who knows how to sauté an onion knows how impractical this is.
The kitchen is a fast moving and dirty place fraught with danger for electronics. You can burn them, cut them, or - oh my god - get them wet! Gadgets simply don't belong. Timers are built into every stove, microwave and toaster, who needs more?
The iPhone is great for watching demos on YouTube or getting into your groove in the kitchen but otherwise GO OLD SCHOOL. Printed recipes are portable, recyclable, cheap and ultimately disposable.
Someone came up with this idea a while ago... http://www.housewares.org/show/info/sdc/08/2_kitchensnyc.aspx and http://www.housewares.org/pdf/show/sdc/08/KitchenSync_processbook.pdf