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Re:Juicero Is Shutting Down by nickparker on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:15PM (#15152793)
Fair criticisms, but I maintain we're going to end up tracking our food eventually. It's just going to get cheaper, and there are real upsides IMO.

Wrote this because I got in a similar conversation on twitter: https://medium.com/@nickparkerprint/in-defense-of-juicero-an...

Re:Juicero Is Shutting Down by frobozz on Saturday September 02, 2017 @03:42AM (#15154813)
Possibly, and i certainly agree that there's benefit in a recipe suggestion tool that is linked to your inventory. It's also a good idea to have something tell you what's coming up to use-by, to reduce waste.

However, that tracking belongs at the kitchen door using a common industry standard format, and the ability to manually enter inventory items.

If you need a different appliance to prepare food from each vendor, then you won't be able to make Alphabet spaghetti with Amazon beef and Apple tomatoes; you can't pop to the local shop to get some milk; you can't go into your garden to pick some carrots; you can't go to a specialist vendor to get a particular spice mix or exotic vegetable; you can't buy your favourite varieties from a local grower.

I can't picture giving up on those advantages just so that Mr. Bezos can tell me what to eat.

Re:Juicero Is Shutting Down by gehwartzen on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:48PM (#15153938)
The thing is that all you need is a sticker on each piece of food with a unique QR code or an rfid tag containing all the expiration, source, and lot numbers. The consumer can just scan everything and get any necessary info about expiration dates and recalls if they want. Nothing very complex there and certainly doesn't require any fancy kitchen gadgets just a industry agreed on labeling standard.
Re:Juicero Is Shutting Down by adrianN on Saturday September 02, 2017 @02:13AM (#15154594)
About half the food I buy is not in a package. I wouldn't want every carrot and every loaf of bread to come with an RFID sticker.