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To save you doing the conversion, that’s 36.3kg.
Thanks, now could you convert that to American Standard lbs? /s
That’s about the weight of four, 20 lb bags of 9mm ammo
Ah! Finally a metric I can understand!
Still need it converted to freight trains, football fields and big macs
Wait I can’t count that high can we visualize it with how many schools you can shoot up with those?
Whic is heavier than four, 20 lb bags of feathers. Because steel is heavier than feathers.
What about stones?
How heavy are the stones?
6.4kg give or take
I guess it’s partially hollow
The app for this thing sucks tho
It will be unsupported in 6 months too.
Damn, they’re gonna brick my block just like that?
Don’t brick my brick bro
You just know it would have a subscription and always online requirement
If at any point, one is not met, it just phases out of existence
Don’t even get me started on the Alexa skill for this thing.
I honestly don’t know which is more real: The mere existence of an app for an inert hunk of metal, or the fact that it’s a miserable user experience?
Awesome I was looking for a wedding gift
Cool! Does it have AI? Also I want it to connect to a phone app, do not bring me an actual program, or a website (I don’t understand what’s a “browser”, is it Google?), bring me an app! I’m fine with a subscription model, or if the cube starts leaking ooze onto the counter without it. It’s also fine if the cube is expected to leak ooze two years from now, because some server thingamajig is gone.
/s obviously.
Steel?
When is someone gonna innovate, and develop the tech to do this with TUNGSTEN?
With a weight constraint of 80lb, a stainless steel block wouldn’t do a very good job of taking up space (the express purpose of the item) because it would only be 6.5 inches (16.5mm) to a side
Tungsten would do an even worse job! The sides would only be 4 inches (10cm)!
tbf it doesn’t say it’s a solid block
I love how which devices get countertop space is a real reflection on culture around the world.
Here in the UK you can always find an electric kettle, without question. In Italy a Moka pot. In Japan a rice cooker.
It says a lot about what’s important to people.
It’s only really in the US that you see such a proliferation of hyper-specific gadgets. Smoothie maker, waffle maker, electric egg poacher, vegetable spiralizer…
I don’t know if that says anything about American culture, or just that you guys have really big kitchens.
I’ve never seen any of those with permanent counter space in any American kitchen. I’ve never even heard of an electric egg poacher.
I chose intentionally obscure and wacky gadgets to overstate the point. I don’t genuinely think everyone has these :)
In the era before cheap microwave ovens the electric egg steamer was my go-to dorm appliance!. I found a coffee can would fit in place of the cover. Then it could not only cook eggs, it could reheat Chef Boyardee and Dinty Moore stew cans.
I have had a series of blenders that live on the countertop and are primarily used to make smoothies. My partner had an electric egg poacher, but we lost it in the move. It never got to live on the counter permanently, but I would use it about once a week.
The volume and depth of modern Japanese kitchen gadgetry puts America to shame.
Japan records centuries of history with specialized tools for making ceremonial beverages and foods.
So to your point: I think kitchen gadgets speak to highly consumerist cultures.
Isn’t a “smoothie maker” just a blender? I dunno if I would consider it one-use. More uses than a rice cooker or electric kettle
They make ones specifically marketed as smoothie makers, which are usually smaller than a regular blender and intended to make about 16-24oz.
We often do have really big kitchens, but it’s more about us being sold the idea of having whatever we want, whenever we want it, and there’s a gadget for that.
Although, I will say, in most American kitchens I’ve seen have, at least, a toaster oven. Possibly an air fryer. Those both are pretty common here.
Our KitchenAid air fryer gets a permanent spot because it also functions as a toaster/toaster oven, proofer, dehydrator, and food/plate warmer.
Huh, I’m surprised that other countries aren’t big on kitchen gadgets. I’m American and I try to avoid any of those specialty gadgets. I’ve received several as gifts over the years, though I always end up selling or donating them
As an American, I completely agree. It’s gotten so bad that this attitude has leached from the suburbs where larger homes and kitchens exist into the city where there just isn’t enough space. My friends think I’m being silly for not wanting an air fryer when I already have a convection oven or an instant pot when I already have a slow cooker and pressure canner. I’m very anti single use equipment or duplicate equip for the very reason that I don’t have space and it’s often a waste of money. But it seems like everyone around me just buys whatever and doesn’t think too much about where it’s going to go or how much they will use it and I just don’t understand it :/
Totally agree too many folks are rampant consumers. I like to have a good think about purchases before I buy and I did so with our fryer. I would say the air fryer has supplanted the standard oven (or skillet) for a large portion of my food prep. Uses less power, heats faster which means I am more efficient. For my use case, it has been a decidedly positive experience.
Combination units are what I like. My microwave is also an air fryer. Which is just a toaster oven with a powerful enough fan on it to qualify, really.
Fuck an air fryer. I will never join the cult. I have a convection oven and Dutch oven. Things which need baking get baked. Things which need frying get fried. It really is not that fucking hard. If I don’t have time to preheat an oven or oil, it’s not worth cooking.
isnt an air fryer just a convection oven anyway.
Here (UK) a friend has wasted over a grand on some AI food prep nonsense thing.
In our culture this is understood to be a sign of deep seated emotional distress. And in accordance with our culture we ignore their distress and bring up the weather, as is tradition.
And then people in the US “need” to buy a $750K house with a walk-in butler pantry because the $350K houses don’t have enough counter and cabinet space to store their single-use bullshit applicances. I wish I was kidding.
Also the same lady who “needs” the strawberry shaver for “cooking”, actually only uses it twice per year, goes out to eat 3 times per week, and gets DoorDash meals 3 additional times per week.
IRL clutter is mental clutter which is why I have banned all counter appliances from our home. All such appliances are stored until they are needed and then put away, a practice which trades occasional 30s periods of effort for a lifetime of mental clarity.
Yeah, but what attachments does it have?
Emotional
None. Though you can get another one that is almost, but not quite entirely the same as it to take up more space.
Description says it support anything compatible with: Rhombus 1.0, Rhombus 2.0, OpenRhombus, Ikea Sküåir, K-Cube, and all KitchenAid Surfaces v.12 or greater. But no support for anything that requires a flat squared level surface.
So, how much does it cost?
Always about 30% more than you’re expecting.
It’s 80 quid, innit?
That’s how I feel about airfryers when I already have a perfectly good convection oven.
Can I get it in red?
Yes, but if you have other red appliances, the shade of red won’t match.
Yes, but first you have to carry it through 19 puzzle chambers to test if you are qualified for cube ownership.
Introducing the single use monstrosity! Used for shaving strawberries for one part of one dish!
I can smell planned obsolescence from here. Do they make a premium version?
At least you can stick kitchen magnets to it.
Narrator: You can’t.
Does it make ice?
No, but it can crush it.
Hmm… something about it, that’s uh-…
The key is the attachments. The pasta maker is decent, the grinder is great. Honestly, while I don’t use it weekly I certainly use it monthly.
