What do most kitchen appliances have in common?

Let’s see: I have a food processor, an immersion blender, a pasta maker, a shitty milk frother and a fancy coffee grinder. I even had a sous vide once. All these machines have an electric motor built-in. When something eventually breaks, chances are it’s the motor or the electronics controlling it. What generally happens when people lack repair skills, and servicing costs the same as a shiny new unit?

They’ll throw it out and buy the shiny new thing.

“Dinner’s late! Stove’s asking for ransom, anyone got BTC?”

The future is bleak: Think Juicero, but with NFT recipes.

Once more, German Scheiße Innovation is at the forefront: For only 1359€ you get an internet-connected multi-purpose kitchen appliance without a way to use its built-in frying function. Unless you open an official recipe, skip to the frying step and pretend you’re making Schnitzel. Criticism on forums is met with Mandalorian stoicism: “This is the way”.

Congratulations, you’re not getting my money.

The Lego of kitchen tools

I’m tired of big machines and rarely-used attachments taking up extremely valuable space. What if we had lego blocks instead? Not as a closed commercial ecosystem, but an open platform effort where vendors and makers sell components that fit together like drill bits into a drill.

How can we combine lego-like modules to make machines?

Community builds...

• Egg cooker/sous vide/stove: Heater + thermometer + computer + pot

• Noodle extruder/juicer: Clamp + motor + funnel + pipe + worm gear + screen

• Zombie repeller: Motor + knives, lots of knives!

… are building community:

• Educate people how stuff works: They’ll stop buying fresh trash when they know how to build something better.

• Repair stuff by repairing or replacing only what broke.

• Automate with an optional computer.

• IoT? Plug in a Matter module.

• Customer support? Reddit, Discord, Twitter.

Let’s stop buying trash!

Of course, now I just need a CNC machine to get started...