I want an appliance that combines the functions of refrigerator, pantry, stove, oven, dishwasher, and that has manipulators inside capable of picking the ingredients, cleaning, peeling, chopping, and otherwise preparing them, cooking the entire meal, cleaning up, and spiting out the meal on serving dishes. :-)<p>It should be able to cook good tasting homemade meals from real ingredients (even fresh from the garden if you have a garden), not just plastic wrapped junk food. You load food items through hopper or door in one side, then a manipulator arm picks them up, reads or otherwise identifies what they are, and stores them in the inbuilt pantry or refrigerator.<p>It should keep an inventory of the refrigerator and panty and be able to suggest recipes that use what you have on hand while optimizing for cost, nutrition, and minimizing wasted food from spoilage. It should be able to produce shopping lists for you based on foods you use frequently or recipes you want to cook in the future. (It could even auto order foods and have them delivered, although I like the idea of just getting a shopping list and buying it myself better.)<p>It should be able to help you avoid wasting leftover foods by reaccepting leftovers, storing them, displaying the leftovers as a suggestion for the next meals so you don't forget, and know the optimal way to reheat or re-prepare them.<p>It should be controlled through an app on your phone, over the local network, and definitely not dependent on some cloud service. You should be able to still get a nice hot supper if the Internet goes down.<p>The app should show you a list of recipes that can be made with the ingredients on hand, you pick one or a couple, it tells you how long it's going to take to prepare. You tap go, and 45min later you have a perfect homecooked supper!