Viral: Robot-made paneer butter masala shocks man, sparks online curiosity

In times when AI is considered to be the replacement for people's livelihood, cooking chores are a small yet tiresome task that people would gladly pass on to robots it seems. In a post going viral on X, a man shared how his new kitchen robot made him one of the best paneer butter masalas he's ever had in his life.Sharing a picture of the robot making the dish, he wrote "My new kitchen robot just made me one of the best paneer butter masalas I’ve ever had in my life."In the following video, he shared a video of making an Indian style tofu curry with the robot. The interface had options for servings, a list of ingredients, an option to simplify the recipe if one does not have all the ingredients and even swap one form of an item for another.

For instance, the man swapped roma tomatoes with tomato puree. The man had to chop the vegetables and place all the ingredients in pre-defined containers so that the robot could begin making the recipe. After the cooking, what resulted was a delicious-looking tofu dish. The man's post has received 1.5M views on X with 10K likes.

Netizens react to the kitchen robot

Many on X were interested in trying out the kitchen robot themselves, asking curious questions about it.

"Woah! How does this work?? Do you put the ingredients in the jars and it does the rest?" asked a person to which the man replied, "Yeah it guides you how to put stuff in and then cooks it"When one user raised concerns about the cooking pan being Teflon and the man being worried about PFOAs, he shared, “Posha pans feature a tri-ply stainless steel body finished with a 100 % PFOA-free, PTFE-based non-stick coating developed by Swiss manufacturer: ILAG.”"This is wild, what other indian dishes can it make??" asked another fellow Indian."This is good. I just paid 1500 to get new Rotimatic. I should just buy this and life is set. Do you recommend it?" asked another.When asked about the cooking time and cleaning process, the man shared that the kitchen robot just took half an hour to make the dish and while some parts have to be cleaned manually, others are all dishwasher safe."Posha is awesome. works well for any one pot recipe cooked in stages to get the best taste and texture. Downside is counter space," shared another user on X.