How does a self-cleaning kitchen put away the dishes?

The year: Sometime between 2025 and 2045.

The place: A new high-end subdivision (or custom home showroom) near you.

The sales pitch:

This home is great for entertaining. It has a complete iKitchen^{ᵀᴹ} and iPantry^{ᵀᴹ}. The iKitchen can cook gourmet meals from scratch -- everything from appetizers to a complete Thanksgiving feast. It has thousands of recipes, including the complete Joy of iCooking^{ᵀᴹ}. And it cleans up after itself. It sanitizes all of the prep surfaces before and after preparing every meal. It loads the dishwasher automatically. It even puts away the dishes!

My question: How does it put away the dishes? What kinds of device(s) or attachment(s) does it use to put away the dishes? Where does it store the device(s) or attachment(s)? Does it need special cabinets or drawers to put the dishes in?

Constraints:

• By "dishes", I mean all of the cooking tools that are designed to be washed in a dishwasher, plus the plates and flatware used for serving the meal.
• The device(s) or attachment(s) that put away the dishes need to be sanitized regularly, perhaps by washing them in the dishwasher.
• The iKitchen equipment does not need to go outside of the kitchen/pantry/butler's pantry. (A "butler's pantry" is an old-fashioned space between a kitchen and a dining room, where food and dishes are transferred from the kitchen to the dining area. In many modern homes, a kitchen island or a side table in the dining room is used for this purpose.)
• It is OK for the iKitchen to assume that dirty dishes will be brought back (probably by humans) from other rooms to a "dirty dish place". The "dirty dish place" might be a counter, or perhaps a convenient dishwasher rack.
• The iKitchen will make sure that any "dishes" that the iKitchen dirties and keeps within the iKitchen get washed without human intervention.
• Ignoring the cost of ordinary walls, floors, windows, and doors, the complete iKitchen and iPantry should not cost more than a new Tesla (roughly 40,000 - 100,000 U.S. Dollars, adjusted for non-electronics price inflation since 2015).
• All products need to be covered by at least a 12-month parts-and-labor warranty when used for typical single-family residential purposes. The warranty can be provided by the manufacturer and/or the installation subcontractor. The warranty does not need to cover abuse.

posted almost 8 years ago

Jasper‭

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