[i_phish_cats]

Yes, I can see it now. So, we have a bunch of millennials that have no idea how to manage a pantry because they only eat at their company cafeterias or dine at restaurants. Instead of thinking "gee I'm almost out of coffee I'll go buy some", they get a bunch of wifi scales. And then a better one with more features comes out, and the old ones get shipped to SE asia so a 5 year old can try to recover some recyclables from it. Then the company that makes it goes bankrupt and every scale becomes useless. And more electronic waste gets shipped to the 3rd world.

[tedmiston]

Not sure that I agree with the series of events leading to your conclusion, but automating pantry management is really appealing to me for convenience. It seems like something better left to automation than spending human cycles on.

I think of it as the "declarative kitchen" like how we have declarative infrastructure or declarative languages. Now if only I could declare some brownies...