Thoughts The kitchen is not just part of every home - it is a place of communication and cultural exchange. Recipes are being discussed, new dishes invented. Party-people usually find their way to the kitchen, it's the best place to hang out. Not to forget it's where you fulfill one of your fundamental human needs: getting food. Experiment Our aim is to create an automatic kitchen that provides this kind of communication - through the web. People around the globe can participate in a cooking session, dealing with an indirect way of team work, facing an application that seems to have its own personality. We have built a REAL and actually WORKING kitchen you can control over the internet and watch on several webcams. The thrill is not to achive a perfectly working robot that cooks dinner for you; it is rather to examine ways of communication through detouring media. S.E.R.V.I.C.E. S uper E ntertaining R emotely V iewable I nternet C ooking E nsemble an attempt to simulate telepresence with a humorous pinch of lifestyle and -oh shit, water's boiling! Gotta go....