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Spice Blend Vending Machine

 Vending Machine Custom Blends Various Spices Together
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Often we see recipes that require some specific combination of spices in certain specified ratios or amounts. Wouldn't it be convenient if we could buy a spice blend/mix which exactly matches the requirements for a recipe?

The spice blend vending machine would contain a large assortment of various different spices and would be able to grind and combine them together into custom blends as per customer input, and then dispense this in a packet to the customer.

A touchscreen interface on the front of the vending machine would allow the customer to select desired spices and desired level of coarseness, specify ratios or amounts, or even a total amount of end product spice mix, which would then be dispensed in a vacuum-sealed packet.

—sanman, Jan 23 2025

(very) Simplified version. Adjustable_20Multi_...20Blend_20Dispenser
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       Brilliant! When you need garam masala nothing else will do. (Try looking for dagadphool on the McCormick shelf.) The ability to dial in your preferred spices in a measured blend is invaluable.   

       This service is premium and would be charge accordingly, but then how can you reproduce Guga's Rub without getting a bank loan for the quantity of ingredients you will use only once or twice? Too many times I end up with 4-spice powder...
—minoradjustments, Jan 23 2025
   

       Needs to be mounted on the back of a small vehicle, with an app to summon it. You need that spice NOW, call up the app, and the driver will be "pinged", and drives to your kitchen, the spices having been custom ground and packaged by the machine by the time it arrives.   

       The app will show the current location of the unit, estimated time to your kitchen, and supply levels of each spice.
—pocmloc, Jan 23 2025
   

       Cool idea. How about a simplified version? (link)
—doctorremulac3, Jan 23 2025
   

       Building on pocmloc's contribution, there should also be peripatetic tankers of core spices roaming the roads in high-spice-demand neighbourhoods, available at a moment's notice to effect aerial refuelling, piping in cumin or whatever is needed, before disengaging the spice hose and allowing the mobile dispenser to peel away, off up the driveway to interact with your doorbell. The spice tankers and spice dispensers should be named in a punning manner similar to Scotland's gritters (salt trucks).
—calum, Jan 23 2025
   

       There should also be a monstrous worm truck from the Shy Hulu company orbiting neighborhoods where the spice drivers troll for kitchen requests. The worm truck is full of substitution recipes for the spices in the competing trucks. It's game on!
—minoradjustments, Jan 23 2025
   

       Seeing how spices are incredibly high value per weight, and generally are produced a very long way away, this must be the ideal service to implement ballistic rocket delivery to replenish the machine. Tankers are far too slow and high-volume for spices.
—pocmloc, Jan 23 2025
   


 

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