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hey i told you to be friends you came to
san francisco
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when i first heard that silicon valley
had built the world's first fully
automated burger robot i knew i had to
fly to san francisco to see it with my
very own eyes not only to taste it but
to go head to head in a burger showdown
man versus machine and i brought along
mythbusters veteran tori belachi to
judge whether my years of cooking on the
line would pay off
where else but ground zero of like tech
world it's a little fitting it's fitting
to have a burger robots
right behind us where you can see the
engineers tuning it up there's no cooks
there's no cooking there's guys on there
there's no chef coats
in my career on mythbusters we would
always build machines or robots to serve
one purpose and that was to get whatever
experiment we were doing right off the
ground i mean you know we see precision
robots building our cars right but now i
feel like they're moving into your
territory which is more of an art form
exactly cooking is not
putting metal screwing bolts together
this machine is supposed to do
everything from scratch
start to finish
in like a matter of minutes they're only
like six bucks yeah they're six dollar
burgers how do they do that no robot
movie ever made
ended where like
the guy and the robot walked away happy
as friends right right the robot always
turns on you man
except wally hello oh except for wally
but
most of the time right it never ends
well for the humans no
tell us how this all started i mean i
heard you used to flip burgers for a
living so i grew up in my parents burger
restaurant i i mean i put probably
several tens of thousands of burgers in
my life you know you do that day in and
day out and you're seeing all these
people come through and seeing how they
you know want different things and
you've got these like little
opportunities where you see you can make
the burger a little bit better right but
when you're trying to do 400 burgers in
a lunch crush you just don't have time
so while you're there flipping burgers
one at a time thousands and thousands
you're like man i wish there was a robot
that would do this for me so there was
sort of like this you know like there's
got to be a better way feeling right
like you know okay you got a griddle
right and your prep table and this is
stuff we've been using for decades
planned studying physics and they've got
these labs with this instrumentation you
know up the wazoo all kinds of crazy
sophisticated stuff and i'm thinking man
why can't we bring this stuff in the
kitchen right and start making some
instruments that'll help us make better
food right and that's what this thing is
yeah so tell us more about this bad boy
right here let's start at the top the
device will take these brioche rolls
it'll slice the buns to order so instead
of using the normal like pre-sliced buns
these aren't exposed to air they're not
drying out and they end up being a
little bit fluffier
sauce down the mill leader we've got 15
sauces you can even decide whether it
goes in the top bun or the bottom bun
then it starts getting the rest of the
toppings and the device slices all the
toppings to order so you have literally
the freshest slice you can get the
cheese we grate that directly on the bun
we have a seasoner and there are 12
different seasonings and we can dispense
that down to the ground too my favorite
part though is the meat so it grinds
chunks of steak to order there's a
wonderful technique that hesse and
blumenthal invented where they realize
that they can take the extrusions coming
out of meat grinder and keep them all
kind of aligned as opposed to just like
mashing it up into a padding so that
your teeth could hit the seams so it's
more tender
yeah and then then we take that we put
that into the griddle uh that's right
it's pretty cool we cook on the top
bottom the same time there are 11
temperature sensors and a bunch of
algorithms and make sure it's cooking it
correctly and then there's your burger
it's like next level like technical to
the point of like how does it fit in my
mouth yeah it's a really tough job we
gotta sample a bunch of burgers all the
time
i didn't get this body
i'm not trying burgers
how long does it take to make a burger
and how many can you pump out in an hour
i can do a burger about every five
minutes um from start finish and so
that's including fresh grinding the meat
and slicing everything how's that
compared to a human ah i i think i think
we can give it a shot as far as like a
five minute time period but it's it's
very impressive being here talking to
you getting to know the product like
trying to find out where the future is
with this machine is helping me figure
out
whether i'm in favor of what you're
doing or not because as like a
knucklehead kid who had nowhere else to
go i had a lot of discipline by flipping
burgers right and it just turned into a
career the reality is that you and
people like you set the standard you
guys explore new areas the culinary arts
and from there then we figure out how to
make that available to everyone
everywhere can we try one of these
burgers okay so the burger i want you
guys to try right now
it's called creator versus the world and
it's our homage to the california
classic
here we are
final product this is nuts yeah this is
so crazy so it comes split like this you
know it's a good burger when you see
that like
sear right this is where it's all at
yeah this this my yard it's their take
you ready lettuce and tomato
wow what do you think i mean does this
robot burger stand up it's a solid
burger if i were to compare this to any
other like fast casual fast food burger
it's up there
it's just certain things like it as a
chef you look at i think that the
shredded lettuce is a bit messy as far
as seasoning is concerned i i feel like
it needs a little more salt but the
sauce is fantastic this is the first
time i've heard about the whole vertical
yeah
steak it's a pain in the ass to do man
he hadn't told us
would i be thinking this is easier to
eat right now i think on a thicker patty
you'd be able to notice it yeah i mean
the fact that this burger is made as
technically as it is right do you think
there's anything lost
on it because it's made by a machine i'm
a burger romantic you know like we have
like this whole thing
that like we developed through time of
being in a restaurant you feel like it
might be lost now that
it's automated yeah throughout our
history and as technology started
growing we were always it was like man
versus machine right right how would you
feel about going head to head with the
robot i mean i don't think in the
history i mean maybe like the ibm the
deep blue uh computer that played chess
against the human in one but i don't
think any chef has ever gone up against
a robot to me no a burger can you make a
burger in the same amount of time as the
robot and can you make it as good if not
better look i'm not going to try to be a
sore loser
but i definitely know that blind tasting
if you're tasting it you're going to be
able to tell what was made by me you're
up for the challenge i'm i'm way more
than that i'm confident victory are you
ready for this yeah yeah
moment of truth man versus machine alvin
kylon for the burger show the creator
exact ingredients exact measurements
three two one go so my thing is is that
the what's going to happen that's gonna
take the longest is grinding the beef
the recipe calls for five ounces
what's good about the noise behind me is
that i can hear
what steps are on and i'm already linked
now remember this has to be
vertically ground
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try to keep the grind up two minutes
have passed
and i haven't got the burger going so
i'm kind of nervous it calls for
6.3 grams of seasoning
that's three
three minutes have passed
the tomatoes are sliced this is great
it's like i can hear uh my chef yelling
at me telling me to hurry up i'll throw
this in there let that get hot
crank it up
tomato
i have 20 seconds left
it's happening it's crazy the burger
over there is done and i'm still
flipping mine over
i'm pretty sure i broke the bread
all right
let that go oh the cheese
it needs
18 grams
how'd it go
pickles tomatoes
onion
lettuce
seven minutes 30 seconds
i just finished my burger
it took the other machine five minutes
i'm two and a half minutes over
damn dude five minutes is fast
bro
dude you did it oh my god the machine's
faster obviously were you surprised by
that i was yeah but two and a half
minutes after isn't that bad right right
okay just off the bat can you tell like
what what what can you tell like what's
different
there's one little thing that might give
it away but why don't we do this let me
i'm gonna close my eyes and i'm just
gonna
take a bite okay
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all right
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then i'll hand you this
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no i say night and day could be bad no
they're very close i would have to say
the second one
there's a definite char that i'm tasting
right
almost like burnt toast yeah that's
definitely me
just to clarify
if i've done this as much times as they
put that thing through testing you would
probably be i
have this dialed in yeah
so what i'm hearing is there's a lot of
excuses there wouldn't be a human factor
if i didn't make excuses so if you yeah
i shouldn't have i should have
posted the burnt bun kind of throws yeah
the flavor profile so just say the robot
wins for the tv i would have to say the
robot
for the tv
i'm coming back for round two
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