Former Microsoft CTO Builds Kitchen Laboratory 127
circletimessquare writes "Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft, is self-publishing a cook book with scientific underpinnings. The man who presided over the original iterations of Windows has built a laboratory kitchen, hired 5 chefs, and plays with misplaced lab equipment: using an autoclave as a pressure cooker, using a 100-ton hydraulic press to make beef jerky, and using an ultrasonic welder for... he's not sure yet. The article includes a video on how to cryosear and cryorender duck. 'It's basically like a software project,' Dr. Myhrvold said. 'It's very much like a review we would do at Microsoft.' Is it possible to BSoD food?"
"Is it possible to BSoD food?" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Is it possible to BSoD food?" (Score:5, Funny)
MS food (Score:5, Funny)
Method (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MS food (Score:3, Funny)
Only if you eat spaghetti code.
Re:"Is it possible to BSoD food?" (Score:5, Funny)
So they hired my mother-in-law?
Re:MS food (Score:5, Funny)
The phrase 'core dump' springs to mind.
Re:Method (Score:3, Funny)
I was thinking more along the lines of they ate too much of a bad batch of Win 98 and barfed up ME.
After snacking on that XP that had been left out of the refrigerator too long, barfed up Vista.
Re:Molecular gastronomy (Score:4, Funny)
This is not a new idea. See wikipedia on molecular gastronomy [wikipedia.org]. Mhyrvold will probably try to patent [slashdot.org] it though.
Color me shocked that a Microsoftie is doing something unoriginal.
Now, if Microsoft-style food makes your stomach unstable, that's just because you can't expect the creator of the food to test it in every possible stomach, and I'm sure they'll fix it in one of the service packs.
And the fact that Myhrvold doesn't yet know about things like pasteurization, filtering, and qualification of suppliers, used to deal with physical, chemical, and biological threats in the food does not mean that any food-borne pathogens, poisons, hormones, rocks or glass shards are his fault. He wants to dominate the market, and making lots of food for lots of people (he's working on deals with schools so kids won't be able to eat any kind of food but Myhrvold Food) means that there will be more of it in which pathogens, dangerous chemicals, and solid debris can hide. That's not Myhrvold's fault, and you fanbois who insist on eating food whose ingredients have been properly qualified, inspected, and treated to remove possible threats, well, the only reason your food is not being attacked is because Myhrvold's food presents a much more high-profile target for biological, chemical, and physical threats, so the threats don't even bother showing up in other food.
Plus, Myhrvold paid a company a bunch of money and they did a study showing that if you ignore hospital bills, funeral expenses, cleaning bills to remove spewed vomit, violently ejected diarrhea, and squirted blood from clothes, personal belongings, homes, places of work, car interiors, stores, schools, etc., and the permanent damage done to the digestive systems of those who have eaten Myhrvold Food and survived, then despite the fact that Myhrvold food is cheaper than what you get at those fancy restaurants that obey the safety and inspection laws, and even cheaper in total overall cost than the food you buy inexpensively at grocery stores and farmers' markets.
A Kitchen huh? (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft Cuisine !!! (Score:3, Funny)
Reminds me this old joke parodying Microsoft business practice and FUD strategies :
Microsoft Cuisine [davar.net].