Life Imitates Jetsons: The Cocoon Cooker

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In the future, supposedly, we'll be able to store any number of delicious meals in the form of tiny, dehydrated pills. With a little water and heat, they'll pop into full sized gourmet meals, fit for the table of a king!

Okay, so that's probably just a ridiculous sci-fi nerd dream. But, according to the Daily Mail (via Gizmodo) we're closer than ever thanks to Electrolux. They're working on a project called the "Cocoon Cooker" which would be able to 'grow' meat and fish by heating up animal cells to 'clone' larger quantities of real meat. You'd start with a small, dehydrated chunk of the product, stick it in the cooker, and find yourself with a fresh slab of salmon, beef or, chicken.

Posted on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:56:33 CDT | by Robert Evans

Hot Dog Cooker Barks when the Dog is Cooked

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If you or your kids are big fans of hot dogs, the staple of summer time cookouts and baseball games, we have the hot dog cooker for you. Looking like portly dog on the outside, the Barking Hot Dog cooker can fix up a dozen dogs for you.

It cooks the hot dogs with steam so no oil is needed. The cooker can have half a dozen hot dogs ready in less than 10 minutes. The cooking tray is washable, making it easy to get the hot dog goo off the tray. Read more

Posted on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Matsushita High Tech Rice Cooker SR-XGA

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Matsushita releases in Japan a new electronic rice cooker with five steps heating system - Matsushita SR-XGA series.

The Rice Cooker is based on electromagnetic inducement heating, like most Rice Cookers. The heat insulation and some kind of twin cap keeps the rice warm after cooking without loosing moisture. Supposedly there is also no condensation water dripping from the cap into the rice. This Rice Cooker is definitly for somebody who is into the art of rice cooking.
More in Matsushita Press-Release (japanese).

Get a Rice Cooker at Amazon.com.

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Posted on Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:14:31 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr