Of course we will. Cooking is not just enjoyable, but a unique expression of someone's personality.
I come from a food-oriented Italian family and your entire comment just blows my mind.
Of course we will. Cooking is not just enjoyable, but a unique expression of someone's personality.
I come from a food-oriented Italian family and your entire comment just blows my mind.
We also enjoy improving our skill.
But we would be happy to have a mechanical sous-chef who will do all the work and let us focus on the fun creative parts.
And that's only if, there won't be a more enjoyable, activity to do.
And for most meals, we would even prefer not to bother at all.
It also has a manufacturing fault that gives you third degree burns and the company tried to avoid recalling it, but there's almost certainly a good competitor product out there.
I imagine a hundred years from now, an overwhelming amount of the time, machines will cook food for humans just because it's easier.
But I imagine people will still occasionally cook for themselves, the same way people still play chess against other humans.
Yet another simple human pleasure sacrificed at the altar of efficiency...
(To anyone in Australia or with an Aussie VPN, there's a wonderful Bluey episode about this here: https://iview.abc.net.au/video/CH1903Q034S00)
Name of episode?
Personally I've never used an Internet based delivery service, as I prefer home cooking for a number of reasons. I suspect that ease is only a minor factor in food choice.
Food is also complex, in that there are so many combinations. Given 50 possible ingredients, there are a huge number of possibilities (plus interactions between ingredients) if you choose 6 of them to make a meal. How do you capture that in a machine, even neglecting that cooking technology continues to evolve?