This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour

Re:This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour by kposehn on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @12:32AM (#5101583)

The question is going to be reliability in the long term. Carls Jr. uses a burger conveyor to cook burgers (stick the patty in and in a fixed amount of time it comes out perfectly cooked) for example, but they also have many moving parts and if it breaks, that is half the burger capacity gone (they have two per store usually).

With a complex machine like this, keeping it from breaking is the key. If it works well though...this really could change things.

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Re:This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour by pcl on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @12:38AM (#5101610)

it comes out perfectly cooked

That's a somewhat subjective statement.

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Re:This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour by kposehn on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @12:56AM (#5101691)

Temperature-wise, it does.

I'd still rather eat a brick. Carl's Jr. continues to insist on using very un-marbled top sirloin and then they cook it to death, with it ending up extremely dry usually. At one point I think they must have experimented with using Gelatin to hold more of the moisture in the meat. It tasted like meat Jell-O.

Ugh...

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Re:This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour by froo on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @12:43AM (#5101640)

Not necessarily, if you look at it from the perspective of a meat's internal temperatures.

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Re:This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour by jonah on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @01:22AM (#5101790)

"For their next model Momentum Machines plans on ... giving it gourmet cooking abilities that seasoned chefs use such as charring the burger while retaining its juiciness."

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