This is the aspirational vision of the future. Tech to facilitate a more luxurious, healthier life. As opposed to us adapting our aspirations to the parameters of the technology.

Right now, we act like battered housewives, apologizing for the shortcomings of our mass produced crap, I know it gave me cancer, but if only you saw the whole picture!

No more of that please. The future _must_ be high grade; anything less is failure.

Actual kitchen robots that cook! Actual cars that don't crush children! Actual cheap bespoke cabinets! Actual oceans of leisure time! Actual roombas that can navigate steps and nooks and crannies!

There already is some of this sort of tech. Electric rice cookers, instant pots, stand mixers, breadmakers and even microwaves all take a lot of the work out of cooking. They don't help with prep, but it's hard to argue with the effectiveness of a sharp knife in accomplishing most tasks.

My fave existing tool of this sort is sous vide. It's not a complete robot chef, but it's done the most overall to reduce manual work in cooking/cleaning.

(I used to use a microwave heavily, but mostly for TV dinners, not proper cooking.)

The instant pot is the closest thing to a dishwasher that I’ve seen in the cooking appliance space. You can literally throw a bunch of meat and vegetables in there with some salt and seasoning, add a bit of water, close the lid and turn it on. In 30 mins or less you’ll have delicious food with concentrated flavours. It’s really quite nice.

I use mine for cooking pasta. I can throw a bunch of dry noodles, salt, water, spinach, and frozen pasta sauce in there and set it for 5 minutes. It cooks up perfectly al dente with no water to drain, sauce emulsified with a quick stir, and only one pot to clean.

I get a great meal in 2 minutes of prep time. Now it seems downright quaint to imagine boiling a big pot of water and stirring pasta while it slowly cooks, only to dump all the water down the drain!