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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Will this comment work?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 8:45AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[It certainly does. Now go make me a sammich. With or without the digital cookbook.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Indyaner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 8:48AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[This crap allready FAILED!<br><br>You can get it for only $35 canadian...<br><br><a href="http://www.thesource.ca/estore/Product.aspx?aff=IntactEarnings&language=EN-CA&ref=2000&product=1618901" rel="nofollow">http://www.thesource.ca/estore/Product.aspx?aff=IntactEarnings&language=EN-CA&ref=2000&product=1618901</a><br><br>and the topics on SD cards for $1.96<br><br><a href="http://www.thesource.ca/estore/Search.aspx?language=en-CA&keywords=mibook&pagenum=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.thesource.ca/estore/Search.aspx?language=en-CA&keywords=mibook&pagenum=0</a><br><br>Nubs]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[poop]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 10:29AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[I probably wouldn't want to watch videos of a cook while cooking, but, I wouldn't mind a digital photo frame that lets me use it as a document reader so I can instantly search for recipes near the stove.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Quantumphysics]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 10:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[slow day on engadget]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[God]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 1:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's poppy-cock, rubbish, just tune into food network and save a dime....absurd.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[hrpuffnstuff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 6:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[I can't reply to anything:|]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 8:50AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[You can get a netbook for similar price :\]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shinigami]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 8:54AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is the stupidest idea I've seen in a long time... agreed - you can get a netbook hooked up to Youtube and a little something called the internet for the same price... with access to millions of recipes.  Major FAIL on this one....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pesto126]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 8:59AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Stupid is Stupid does..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vishnu Vadlamudi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 9:36AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Maybe people don't want to do that. You ever figure that? My great aunt doesn't even know how to send an e-mail so she doesn't bother with computers, but she cooks like hell. So how is this product the stupidest for her? Maybe you should view the product from other people's perspective instead of your nerdy own...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[darbear5610]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 11:28AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[darbear5610, it's practically criminal to charge what these asshats are for a digital photo frame that plays pre-recorded videos. I bet it's clunky to use, so the easy-UI argument might be illrelevant as well. Cookbook DVDs have existed for a long time, and I'm sure your aunt knows how to press "play". So why would you stand up for this complete and total crapgadget?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ned Scott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 1:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, my mom certainly doesn't know what a netbook is, or really that you can get recipes on youtube.<br>So it's not a game changer, but it's not a bad product, if the videos it comes with are any good.<br><br>For me, it's all Alton Brown's Good Eats, and a netbook. That's actually why i got my netbook.<br>-Taylor]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Taylor. Yes, Taylor.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 1:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Oh yes I forgot about the DVD's and it couldn't be too hard to set up and 7" LCD for her and have DVD's for her viewing. I didn't mean to stand up for this product, but what I was getting at was that some people just haven't been introduced to computers and it would be hard teaching them all the things we consider simple =/.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[darbear5610]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 2:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[If your aunt "cooks like hell" she probably won't need video recipes.  <br><br>A well written recipe containing the ingredients, how to combine them and perhaps cooking/baking times are sufficient.<br><br>I can imagine video demonstrations as helpful for totally new techniques even for experienced cooks, but they usually *know* what moves to look for and don't have to ape them. <br><br>Cooking isn't magic - you need quite a few basic techniques to cover "everything", but after that, it's just experience.  <br><br>No amount of cool videos will enable a cooking klutz to produce a good looking disk just by imitating what the presenting cook does.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[peter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 3:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Those hands look awfully pale...almost zombie like...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 9:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[maybe the Palm Pre gal is moonlighting...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 5th 2009 2:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[When will they bring out the Kama Sutra digital guidebook for the bedroom?   <br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[zfurie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 9:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[They already have.  It's streaming on netflix....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ebayaholic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 11:55AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'd like to mention that they're working on  "Showering - the long guide" and the antichrist of the Media Chef, the "Toilets - never too late to use them properly". They had problems with fitting and waterproofing the latter's videocameras.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[alex_s360]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 1:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[uh, can you change the recipes and add your own (just the text, at least)?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[quillaja]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 9:57AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[sudo make me a sandwich ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ioannisnousias]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 10:10AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Looks quite good except for the tacky media chef logo on the front. Perhaps this is really Apple's new tablet in disguise?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SRS]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 10:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[i didn't know cadavers could cook......]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[trevor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 11:31AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[I already have a device very similar to this that lets me view cooking videos, all of the major cooking and recipe websites, and a vast array of other media on demand.  It's called a laptop computer.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Durr Hurr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 11:39AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Might be useful for someones gma..but ofcourse the alternatives are cheaper and overall better..netbook..<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 12:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[lets  comment until the  not-nice-with-apple-engadjet doesnt post when the new imacs air  will came out]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[portugal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 12:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Please don't report on single purpose digital photo frames, Engadget. It's beneath you.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ned Scott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 1:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm no chef, but I cook occasionally and to be honest, this isn't really helpful even for those that don't cook This forces more people who already don't know how to cook to further dumb themselves down by having them try to follow whatever the chef's doing on screen and I'm sure pretty much what the chef does couldn't be replicated by commoners well enough for the recipe. I've seen it countless times happen to many people and have screwed up myself during the first few times I tried to cook, failing miserably at following verbatimly whatever the chef on TV says.<br><br>For $271, I'd rather get one of those ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Schfelzerberg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 2:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[-Is there a character limit on comments now?-<br><br>Cont.<br><br>For $271, I'd rather get one of those ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Schfelzerberg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 2:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[-I've figured it out now... When I tried to type the V that's open faced to the right to denote "less than $300", it cut my comment-<br><br><br>For $271, I'd rather get one of those netbooks under $300 and view online recipes instead and other tutorials for cooking techniques. Having the cook himself/herself search for the recipes and its many variations allows him/her to think and learn more about the individual components of the food he/she is cooking.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Schfelzerberg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 2:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[all those who think these things need an edit button say I]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jimminy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 3:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[I never knew before that there was this technology on the world.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TechnGear]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 7:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Unless they can work in Project Natal style hand gestures to scroll through the text, and make it text instead of special videos, this thing seems kind of useless.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[smclean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 4th 2009 8:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hey Guys....this thing is SUPER expensive<br><br>On the other side of the price spectrum for a digital cookbook is $5 for over 300 gourmet recipes available for iphone and ipod touch....<br>check out the link, theres a demo video<br><br><a href="http://appsolutemedia.com/cookshelf.html" rel="nofollow">http://appsolutemedia.com/cookshelf.html</a><br><br>food is AWESOME!<br><br>check it out, tell me what you think]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jaymie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 5th 2009 1:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Belling's Media Chef digital cookbook]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/bellings-media-chef-digital-cookbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Most interesting, I recently blogged about the potential for a similar application but created to run on Apples *imminent* tablet.<br><br><a href="http://toomuchgreen.eu/2009/09/cooking-apple/" rel="nofollow">http://toomuchgreen.eu/2009/09/cooking-apple/</a><br><br>I do think the tablet would be great for the kitchen, "something else" aside from the office or media, wipe clean...!<br><br>Richard.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[RichBos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 5th 2009 5:05AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
