Originally presented at SXSWi 2012: Dinner parties are the ultimate social experience that no digital technology will ever replicate. You sit face-to-face with others, sharing an experience that uses all five of your senses. It's the original social network. For many though, hosting your own dinner party -- or even cooking dinner for yourself -- feels like too much work. There’s too much planning, too many options, too many picky eaters. In this session, we’ll demonstrate some emerging technologies that make cooking easy and more accessible for both novice and expert home cooks. Things like smart recipes that adjust to your guests’ preferences, multiple recipes that combine themselves into one step-by-step process, dinner party planning tools connected to social networks, cooking classes done via chat rooms, appliances that can’t overcook food, kitchen scales that measure ingredients for you and a few tips and techniques to let you do more in the kitchen.

1. My Robotic Kitchen
Planned This Dinner Party
Mike Lee & Will Turnage
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2. In the next hour...
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3. Mike Lee
Founder, Studiofeast
Director, Bond Strategy & Influence
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7. Will Turnage
Developer, Ratio & Bread Baking Basics
VP, Technology & Invention, R/GA
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8. The Magic of the
Dinner Party
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9. So why don’t more people
throw dinner parties?
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10. I don’t know how to cook
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11. I can cook for myself,
but not for other people
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12. There are
so many moving parts
to think about
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13. I can do it, but
it’s not worth the trouble
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14. The Missing Links
Knowledge
Organization
Effort
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15. “Let’s build a robotic kitchen”
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20. The Kitchen Scale
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23. Gadgets solve the
wrong problem
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24. Do I want a line cook or a chef?
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25. The role of the chef
Cook for the situation
Adapt to available ingredients
Combine steps
Be efficient with ingredients
Prep wisely
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26. Creating a modular menu
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30. The Robotic Kitchen
Dinner Party
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31. Beef Tataki
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32. Japanese Clam Soup
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33. Beet Salad
w/Endive & Blood Orange
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34. Braised Pork Belly
w/Risotto & Roasted Fennel
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35. Apple Cake
w/Ginger Ice Cream & Miso Butterscotch
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39. Creating more dinner parties
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48. Laura’s
Dinner Party
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53. What did we learn?
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54. Fun? Yes!
Perfect? No!
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55. Simplify.
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56. Culinary Pattern
Recognition is Key
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57. You don’t need the gadget,
you need the brain
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58. Structure breeds freedom
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60. Thank You!
Photography by:
Steph Goralnick
sgoralnick.com
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