Rapid Pancake Sorting Robot

Posted by John Farrier in Food & Drinks, Science & Tech, Video Clips on October 2, 2009 at 9:53 am


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This video by ABB Robotics demonstrates a sorting robot used in a pancake factory. The action starts at about 1:15, when the robot begins sorting 400 pancakes per minute, switching off so that specific sizes are in a specific order. Just imagine how we could benefit if this machine was applied to soylent green production.

Via Make | Company Website

 
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ChefStack Automatic Pancake Machine

Posted by John Farrier in Food & Drinks, Gadget on August 8, 2009 at 4:05 pm

Although it’s pricey at $3,500, this kitchen gadget will churn out 200 pancakes in one hour. The manufacturer is marketing it toward convenience stores and cafeterias, but I’d say that there’d be a strong demand from individual homes.

Link via Popular Science

 
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World Pancake Stack Record

Posted by Miss Cellania in Food & Drinks, World Records on February 24, 2009 at 12:04 pm

That’s a lot of pancakes! 672 of them, to be exact, and a pair of chefs at a Scottish hotel think the stack of pancakes may get them into the Guinness Book of World Records.

Sean McGinlay and Natalie King of Glasgow’s Hilton Grosvenor hotel measured their pancake tower at 29.5 inches (75cm) – beating the current title by 0.4in.

The chefs mixed about 100 eggs, more than 17 pints of milk, 11lbs of flour and 6.6lbs of butter for the challenge, a hotel spokeswoman said.

The hotel’s general manager Stuart Nelson said: ‘It was a bit shaky towards the end but somehow we managed to pull it off.

The current pancake stack record is 29.1 inches, set by a Slovenian team last year. Link -via J-Walk Blog

 
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Canned 'cakes

Posted by Stacy in Food & Drinks on January 1, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Do you think Easy Cheese is the best invention since sliced bread? If so, consider your life changed:

Yep. EZ pancakes.

Link – via BoingBoing

 
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