Gizmo Quiz Apr 3rd -- Starts Now!

[DrDoc]

What is this [galagalaxia.com] I wonder.

[akmac]

does it handle food/grain?

[akmac]

Looks like an industrial food/meat/grain grinder of some sort...

Conveyor belt dispenser...

[DrDoc]

It does handle food "stuff", yes.

Not a grinder.

[iamlost]

A robot dinosaur?

[DrDoc]

You are right! It is a robot dinosaur ... from Jupiter! ;)

No, not a robot dinosaur

[grandpa]

A wood chipper would be too easy...

But it looks like, ahhh, ummmm... a wood chipper.

[DrDoc]

No wood chipping involved (I think).

[akmac]

french fry cutter...

For a really, really, really busy Mcdonalds?

[DrDoc]

heh

Not a french fry cutter ;)

[akmac]

But it does provide a cutting action...?

Can you ttell ust if it slices, dices or Juliennes(sp)?

[grandpa]

OK, so it handles food 'stuff'. The stuff could be the waste product from the food. Or... maybe this is a corn husker or a bean sorter.

[DrDoc]

I cannot tell you its exact function, as that would make it way too easy ;)
The "industrial food something" is at least in the right direction.

Not a corn husker or bean sorter ...

And <hint> it deals with pre-waste food ;)

[grandpa]

Does it take some sort of food product 'IN', and produce something else 'OUT', something which is not necessarily edible?

[akmac]

Pasta machine?

[DrDoc]

Tricky to answer ...
Yes, it takes some sort of food in ... and then produces something else. I guess it just depends on what you mean by "something else". Could easily lead you down the wrong track, depending on what you mean.

[DrDoc]

Not a pasta machine

[akmac]

SPAM!

Ok, maybe not. Can you give us an indication of what type of food? Plant or animal?

[grandpa]

I'm thinking this thing produces pellets, or peanuts. What I have in mind is cornstarch IN, packing peanuts OUT.

[DrDoc]

Definitely plant food.

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And, as I feared ... wrong path, grandpa ;)

[akmac]

Does it product food FOR plants, or FROM plants?

Maybe the machine that grinds out those cute baby carrots?

[DrDoc]

"From" plant food ... or rather "with" the same ;)

[akmac]

Tofu?

Is it a soy/tofy maker? Maybe not if it doesn't grind...

[DrDoc]

Not tofu.

Think food pre-processing.

[akmac]

food washer? Shell remover?

[edited by: akmac at 5:28 pm (utc) on April 3, 2006]

[DrDoc]

Not washing.

[grandpa]

Used to produce animal feed?

[DrDoc]

Besides, the answer needs to contain not only what this gizmo does to the food, but to which food it performs its design action ;)

[DrDoc]

No, I'd say the food will remain fit for human consumption.

[akmac]

Ok, can you tell us fruit or vegetable-or neither?