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- terafunker, on 03/14/2009, -1/+55Coming soon: Vending machine pizza, the only pizza worse than frozen.
- chiqui3, on 03/14/2009, -0/+38This is too cool. That's a lot of entertainment for $4.50!
- Dalfo, on 03/14/2009, -0/+31Shhh don't tell the Americans!
- Xazos, on 03/14/2009, -0/+29I need one of these in my house! Or an oven, whichever.
- fury420, on 03/14/2009, -0/+27sounds delicious and convenient
FTA:
"The machine Mr. Torghele and his engineers produced is outfitted with little windows so the customer can watch the pizza being made. As in the Charlie Chaplin film “Modern Times” (in miniature and without Chaplin) wheels turn and gears grind. The customer presses a button to choose one of four varieties — margherita (plain cheese and tomato sauce), bacon, ham or fresh greens. A plastic container dumps flour into a drum resembling a tiny washing machine; a squirt of water follows, and the drum goes into a spin cycle, forming a blob of dough that is then pressed flat to form a 12-inch disk.
Tomato paste is squirted onto the dough and cheese is added before it is lifted into a small infrared oven. The baked pizza then slips onto a cardboard tray and out into the customer’s waiting hands. Mr. Torghele says the pizza will cost as little $4.50, depending on the variety." - zakatak, on 03/15/2009, -2/+21I MAKA DA PIZZA YOU GIVA ME DA QUARTERS OK!
- rkiga, on 03/15/2009, -0/+19Dear Italy,
lol noobs.
Love,
Japan
http://www.photomann.com/japan/machines/ - inactive, on 03/14/2009, -0/+19Did you consider how it's in Italy but the name is "Let's" Pizza?
That's a business man already looking across the ocean to make his fortune. - Sparker1981, on 03/14/2009, -0/+17Cool, wish we had one at my uni
- NicAuf, on 03/14/2009, -3/+20DEY TUK ER JERBS!!!
- digg1520, on 03/15/2009, -1/+17I'm glad a human cook won't be there to touch everything with his dirty hands.
- inactive, on 03/14/2009, -3/+17No human error? Human error is always a possibility. Humans designed the machine after-all. I doubt they hooked up a super computer to calculate and build the perfect pizza making machine. :p
But I would put my money on it being better than frozen pizza in any case. - mycoplasma, on 03/15/2009, -1/+15In Soviet Russia, pizza make vending machine!
- terafunker, on 03/15/2009, -0/+13Soviet vending machine? Didn't they just put a guy inside to make change and hand you a soda?
- julian02392, on 03/14/2009, -1/+13Not really a video of it in action, just a video of some drunks talking about how ***** it will be.
- chill613, on 03/15/2009, -0/+11I don't even care if the pizza is all that great... who else isn't a sucker for spending a dollar just to have a penny flattened in those machines at tourists hotspots, watching the penny fall into the slot and have the gear grind out a new imprint? I get to watch a machine make a pizza? This is better than watching those mini-donuts on the conveyor belt, coming out of the frying area and plopping down into the sugar...and those things are delicious! YES PLEASE!
- lolupissed, on 03/14/2009, -0/+11Need video
- cawfee, on 03/15/2009, -1/+8DEY TOOK OUR JARBS
- inactive, on 03/15/2009, -2/+9Thatsa nicea pizza piea
- mg101153, on 03/14/2009, -0/+7this is amazing. I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THIS TO BE IN AMERICA
- larrimer7, on 03/15/2009, -1/+7I love nytimes.com font
- kpasc, on 03/14/2009, -0/+6English is popular in Italy. English words have made their way into the Italian language to the point that there is a society with the purpose of preserving real italian... if you're ever in Italy and want to find a snack bar, it's as easy as "Dov'e` uno snack bar?"
The name isn't so much about looking across the ocean, as it is for appealing to Italian youth. - damntourists, on 03/14/2009, -4/+10then i can drive over to this vending machine: http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/3991/smashablev ... and pick up some plates to put my pizza on.
- Pentagarn, on 03/14/2009, -0/+5Dough that's mixed like that and immediately baked won't taste that good. It needs time to develop flavor. I guess it's just a vending machine, though.
- mastersmite, on 03/15/2009, -0/+5as long as the machine is in a popular location so that the ingredients never have the chance to go bad, it should be quite good due to the fresh, never frozen nature of the product. the only thing i worry about is the infrared oven instead of a more traditional oven and the flavors that it may or may not impart...
- requiem4themind, on 03/15/2009, -0/+5"At the same time, Europeans are looking for less expensive ways to eat out [...]"
I'm ALWAYS looking for less expensive ways to eat out ;) =/ - WhoDoneIt, on 03/14/2009, -0/+5You keep telling yourself that.
Bon Appetite. - bdipier, on 03/14/2009, -2/+7Why did you post this link?? It's a minute and a half of two drunks trying to figure out the buttons.
- ses110, on 03/15/2009, -0/+4Easy, the same reasons that fueled the Industrial Revolution: the ability to mass produce things in a cheaper, faster, and more efficient way. Less of the human elements takes away labor which means less cost.
- inactive, on 03/15/2009, -0/+4An oven that makes and cooks the food for you...
I just got a wonderful idea! How about a cross-breed between a 3D Printer and an Oven that uses some sort of edible material, complete with injectings of color, flavor and nutritional additives! Just stick your tongue in the designated area, let the computer scan and determine what you're craving most and PRESTO! The handy dandy easy-make oven gets to work on crafting and cooking your meal!
Although it might be problematic in the texture department. For example; A crunchy, juicy apple won't be crunchy and probably won't be juicy either. It will just look and hopefully taste similar enough to an apple. But hey, thats would be a pretty damn good start if you ask me.
...I should probably patent this idea before someone else does... - Remlog, on 03/14/2009, -0/+4God damn I love Italy.
- charlie55, on 03/15/2009, -0/+4they used to (and still might) have one of these on the campus of LSU, at the CEBA building. it made pizza, and french fries and a couple other things. it was decent. basically it was a vending machine that put stuff in the microwave for a couple minutes.
- rkiga, on 03/15/2009, -0/+4video of a different brand, but closer than what's been posted so far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K33Lf8Zgyg0 - FriBear, on 03/15/2009, -0/+4I found one in florence that served pasta dishes for 2 euro. It was really good too. Of course it was like 4 in the am and I was hammered.
- ezekahr, on 03/14/2009, -0/+4Theres a restaurant in Glasgow that's basically just all vending machines with slices of pizza in it.
I'm not sure if the machine actually makes the pizza, or if it is a premade pizza just being kept warm in the machine.
Either way it's pretty awesome. - FaithclubDotNet, on 03/15/2009, -0/+3At one point in my life I wanted to make a robotic pizza maker. It pleases me that someone did. Every time I get a strange idea that would work... Eventually someone does it.
- b3and1p, on 03/14/2009, -0/+3Anyone have a real video of it?
- DuneChild, on 03/15/2009, -1/+4Will it also make me a liquid that is almost, but not entirely unlike tea?
- motang, on 03/15/2009, -1/+4I hope this will make it's way state side...my university could really use one or two of these!
- slapded, on 03/14/2009, -2/+5im just waiting for a pepsi machine here at work that takes paypal. i never have change :(
- Macintoshreader, on 03/15/2009, -0/+3Obvious troll is obvious.
- Mtdewrulz, on 03/14/2009, -2/+5I don't really get things like this. Why are people obsessed with taking the human element out of our collective experience, and furthermore, why do people think doing something yourself takes less work? I'd rather sit down at a table and have my food brought to me than walk around to different vending machines and then carry everything to the table myself. It's like self checkout at Wal-Mart... why the hell would I do something myself when I could have someone do it for me?
- nyxerebos, on 03/15/2009, -0/+3Exactly, and less human lifetimes wasted sitting in a subway ticket booth making change for surly people. Vending machine can do that, and I don't have to rely on ticket-person showing up, I can get my own ticket, one that costs less.
- slashdotordigg, on 03/15/2009, -1/+4It comes with free cockroach toppings....
mmm..munch...munch....crunch*......@#$#$@#$@#$!!!! - zeth006, on 03/14/2009, -0/+3I guess it's the only way the businesses that own the old brick oven pizza shops in Italy were ever able to compete with Domino's/Pizza Hut.
- Yage2006, on 03/15/2009, -0/+3Sounds like a salmonella's wet dream.
- inactive, on 03/14/2009, -1/+4Yeah, but how does it taste?
- terafunker, on 03/15/2009, -0/+3Where's the beer vending machine next to it? What good is pizza without a human if there's no alcohol involved?
- jasoninoakland, on 03/16/2009, -0/+3Convenience.
If you have the time, and they're open, obviously a pizzeria is preferable. If it's 2am, or Sunday in many parts of Europe, you're assed out if you're hungry and have no food at home. -
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