MAID - microwave with Jamie Oliver's brains

At one time, the microwave oven was conceived as a killer of all other cooking appliances in the kitchen. A stove, an oven, a toaster and a double boiler had to hastily prepare to go to another world in order to give way to a new queen of the fields. But after 60 years, in our kitchens, the stoves, ovens and other “housekeeping helpers” still feel great and even feel great, coexisting in a miraculous way with the once formidable upstart.

However, despite the obvious threat from the multi-cooker, microwave ovens still hope to break through to world kitchen domination. On Kickstarter, there is a campaign to raise funds for the release of the most desperate microwave attack aircraft - a smart multi-function stove named MAID (from Make All Incredible Dishes) from SectorQube, which is designed to make the cooking process "easy, fun and social." And deprive professional chefs of work (in fact, no).

Oliver mentioned in the title can and should not worry, but this is only for now. In the description of the device, the authors promise a miracle, not a household appliance. To begin with, MAID will be multifunctional, that is, it will be able to fry, grill, boil, steam, heat and defrost it once or twice, although this will not surprise anyone. Almost any of her rivals can do the same.
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Further more interesting. MAID will know all the recipes. Not immediately, of course, but with the accumulation of knowledge that will accumulate in some kind of “storage” thanks to the users and get a microwave through the Internet access. Anyone can add a favorite page from the cookbook to the recipe store, or share their own culinary creations. So the television hero will have to really try to surprise you with a new recipe.



The real highlight of the invention should be (if the campaign overcomes the declared milestone of $ 150,000, one third of which is collected in the first 5 days of the campaign), a smart recommender system that forms the basis of a smart device. MAID will be able to offer a recipe based on the available products, or products that you would like to use when cooking. But more importantly, the microwave can provide personal recommendations for each user based on eating habits or health data. The microwave will be able to offer only the right and healthy dishes to those who have any health problems, be it diabetes, lactose intolerance, etc., or help with dieting, for which support is provided for "communication" with other smart gadgets (above all , with fitness bracelets and smartphones). Will MAID lock the refrigerator on the lock at night, not reported.


Unfortunately, MAID (for now?) Does not know how to prepare the main thing. To clean, chop, pour with sauce and so on will still have a man, a smart device will only be able to create a list of ingredients, prompt (with a voice message) and check the correctness of cooking time and temperature. So throw in the furnace, press a couple of buttons and after a while get a ready, fragrant and beautiful dish, alas, will not work.

The developers expect to deliver the first samples of MAID in November 2015 at a price of 499 dollars.