True-to-Life Cooking Simulator

This would be a serious computer-based simulation product endeavouring to model all the complexities of a full range of equipment, ingredients, their interactions, and their tastes.

Basically, the simulator would provide you with a virtual kitchen through in which dishes could be prepared with virtual ingredients. The software would have the knowledge of what happens when you slice ingredients, blend them, dice them, put certain ingredients together, what happens when you heat ingredients, cool them, mix them, etc. etc. Although it would be technologically difficult, the idea is to have fully fledged scientific modelling of what goes on during cooking.

The software would also give a 'taste rating' to completed dishes. My brother pointed out to me that there is already a large 'database' of all known recpies which the software could be use as the basis for knowing what tastes good together. User settings could store preferences for hot/spicy food, sweets, etc., so the ratings would suit the current user.

Basically, such software could give valuable cooking training and an opportunity to 'test' new dishes without wasting ingredients or making a mess. No washing up either!! You could have online/network simulation as well - cook with your friends, or attend a virtual cooking class with your favourite celebrity chef!

A more wacky addition to this idea is to have an online service where you send your simulated recipe data. A chef in a nearby company franchised kitchen (maybe one per city) then cooks the dish based on data from the simulator, and it is home delivered to your house!