I don't think any computer out there can properly identify the food that I attempt to cook...

Perhaps not. But it definitely can't without a camera.

What about smelling the food instead of looking at it?

what about pre-tasting it, or pre-digesting it for a calorie count?

would the market accept eating robot feces?

Seems to work for ServCo...

I'm just going to stuff it full of Soylent and see what it makes of that.

Image recognition with visible spectrum is pretty limited. I can put a egg-based or sugar-based glaze on something and it will turn brown faster, without making the meat cook any faster.

What might be more interesting is a gas-phase chromatography which analyses the vapors and deduces the various reactions going on. But that's going to be severely over-kill (and incredibly priced).

Well in the video it used a temperature probe to detect when the meat was done, then it cranked up the heat to brown. So in that scenario your glaze would be just fine.

But I am not defending this product. It may find a market but it would not be for me. I have been learning to cook through trial and error and find it fun and rewarding. Not only that, it really doesn't take that much time.

Seems like it would be way easier to just have a microphone and simply just tell it what you're making.