Gadgetory

can I get a bourbon coke coming right out so I'm not much of a bartender myself but hopefully bar psious this robot bartender can fare better that's what it's supposed to do automatically and make cocktails on demand so it brought up to an actual cocktail bar to see how it fares against a real bartender versus cost just over a thousand dollars you can fit it with five different alcohols along the top then three mixers in two plastic containers on the side and it makes rates pretty quickly though it will sometimes splash and drip you supply the glass and some ice and bar tsa's takes care of the rest pouring out precise ingredients from its recipe database and the results probably better than what I could do here's your bourbon and coke sir but now we're gonna give this thing a real test we're gonna pit bar --ss against an actual bartender we're starting with something simple a boulevardier which calls for rye whiskey vermouth and Campari we also told our bartender Brian no garnishes as barsa scant add those on its own and we're looking for an even blind taste test hmm okay okay well I like this one because it is it tastes there's more about complexity going on they taste smoother and this one was a little kind of just flatter like a one-note kind of feel I knew it I knew it so bursts actually won that round but it was very close and there were some mitigating factors that Brian will talk through later but now we're gonna unleash our bartender and put no restrictions let him make the signature cocktail he wants to make and see if bars can keep up with the first test that we conducted there we're dealing with three ingredients equal parts you know everybody's palate is gonna be a little different I don't know that our judge had the best palate today so we're gonna make a drink called a New York sour which Parsis doesn't have in its database fortunately we can make a custom recipe using the app the drink calls for sugar syrup lemon juice red wine and bourbon we'll put the ingredients here on the machine and on the app we select to make a custom cocktail and there we go take it away versus something that's holding us back here is that we're limited to three mixers at a time and these containers can leak Wow I mean right away there's no contest I mean look at the difference here this one looks delicious and and and it's actually full glass as opposed to this one which is like a half of a drink I'd be upset if I got this to the bar so this one looks a lot better I have to say I don't know mmm I mean it tastes like half a drink very very little sour and just kind of no not so impressive I'll try this one next here we go oh man that's good that is so much better it is like rich and smooth and has so many different flavors going on probably because there's more ingredients I think and the garnish adds some kind of smell once you actually get your your ear nose in the glass it's very good very good you know I'll tell you that I'm not worried about my job it's very limited in what it can produce it doesn't have a whole lot of options for multiple ingredients different techniques you know the person that's gonna buy this is obviously has a lot of disposable income and loves cleaning up messes versus does a few things pretty well you can search for recipes based on what you have you can also search for what you want to make and see what ingredients you'll need to buy unfortunately the app crashes and freezes frequently it's supposed to save the volume of each container but more often than not that info is lost look I get the appeal here especially if you've got the money you want to save yourself some effort on party night but aside from the inherent limitations and the too expensive price both the machine and the app need another round or two of Polish plus this thing is over a thousand dollars and you can do essentially the same thing with a shot glass for measuring and google for recipes Cheers