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In several science-fiction works, the job of food service is relegated to automated slots in the wall. They may be [[Matter Replicator
Usually comes in one of two varieties: "any food imaginable" or "[[Soylent Soy]] only".
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Most common use for [[Matter Replicator|"makers"]] in ''[[Transmetropolitan]]''.
== [[Film]] ==
* In the short film ''Design for Dreaming'' (basically an extended advertisement for Frigdidaire's "Kitchen of the Future" and General Motors' Motorama), the female model demonstrates the features of the Kitchen of the Future by telling it to automatically mix and bake a birthday cake. Amusingly, the cake already has candles in it when the woman removes it from the oven.
* ''[[
* ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'': Caracitus Potts has a [[Rube Goldberg Device]] breakfast-making machine as one of his many household inventions.
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' series had "autokitchens" that usually dispensed layered bricks of "food".
* Sir Kofa Yokh from ''[[
* [[Andre Norton]]'s ''No Night Without Stars'': Sander lives in a [[Post Apocalyptic]] world. During the novel, he finds an underground installation from the Before Days, the civilization that existed before the Dark Time. While exploring it, he finds a box with knobs on it. When he presses certain knobs, the box produces food.
* ''[[John Carter of Mars|A Princess of Mars]]'' had one of the earlier examples. Restaurants in Zodanga dispensed meals through a hole in the table, no "human" contact involved.
* The Nutri Matic in ''[[The Restaurant At the End of The Universe]]'' analyzes the nutritional needs of the user and produces a suitable meal which always ends up being almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[
* ''[[
** One episode had this in a case of [[Early Installment Weirdness]]. It split the difference between "any food imaginable" and "Soylent Soy" by producing food bars that tasted like actual food.
** The Tardis had a food dispenser in a room near the control room. The food it provided resembled the concentrated rations used by 20th century Earth astronauts. It also issued water in small plastic bags.
* The ''[[Lexx]]'' had phallic appendages that dripped a tasteless grey paste (which becomes more watery when the [[Living Ship|Lexx]] itself is hungry)
* ''[[
== [[Tabletop Game]] ==
* Most food in ''[[
* ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Gamma World]]'' module GW1, "Legion of Gold":
** Each underground shelter has a food and beverage dispenser set into the wall. It is button-operated, with a 50% chance of spewing out a greenish paste that is deadly poisonous.
** Inside the underwater SAMURAI facility, the PCs can find a kitchen area with a large machine. If properly activated, it can process seaweed into edible food with a variety of flavors, temperatures, textures and colors.
* ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' got food processors dubbed [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-05-19 Fabberchow], producing food commonly from concentrates that are digestible, but not exactly "edible" as such. This does not mean there are no living cooks.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[The Jetsons]] have one, naturally.
* ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' have [[
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': In a [[Cutaway Gag]], Peter is seen with a similar breakfast-making machine, which just shoots him.
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