Before Party-Throwing Fags Rejoice...

Before you demand one in your new-construction, neo-Craftsman cottage, know that the DishMaker has a drawbacks.
Wired News: Machine Makes Dishes on Demand

This seems like a pretty cool idea. Instead of washing dishes, make them at home and recycle them.

But it seems a little over-the-top.

"When Barbara Wheaton, culinary historian and honorary curator at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library, told Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers that she longed for durable dishes that didn't need to be washed and could be thrown away after a meal, she was surprised when they took her seriously."

Hello? Barbara, that's what we call "paper plates." And even Chinet makes some pretty durable dishes that don't get soggy with baked beans or ice cream.

And for example, it only makes a dish every 90 seconds. But for a Gaggle gathering, you might need 100 cups (we drink a lot) and 50 plates (we eat a lot too but the machine only has the capacity for 150 dishes). We'd need to put aside 3 hours and 45 minutes just to make dishes.

Hardly a good use of time.