This is a nice bit of marketing but... is it real? There's no actual information on the page, no links to any other pages/sites, nowhere to buy it, and no mention of "coming soon" or any sort of expected release date.
They mention it's patented... Assuming they don't just mean a generic air fryer patent or something, I would think that the patent process is too annoying for a straight-up joke.
EDIT: And that said, 3min on Google Patents hasn't found the relevant patent.
I think KFC invented/patented the combi-oven, they could be referring to that. (A humidity/temperature controlled oven that can be used like sous-vide.)
Practically I kinda doubt you'd want frying temperature anywhere near a computer, but you should be able to get warm enough to safely hold already cooked chicken.
The Lifetime movie "Recipe for Seduction" was all the way real, believe it or not [0]. I thought it was a gag too but it was playing last time I turned to that channel.
CM could be taking the piss, but it would be kinda neat if it was real. I don't see a price or ordering information on the page, yet. So 50/50 chance this is legit.
The nuc alone pulls 180w and any graphics card that would hit 240fps at 4k would pull 150-280w. I would imagine it just ducts the hot exhaust air through a basket.
I don't think any PC components are going to exceed 120C (and that's the component themselves, the surrounding air will be cooler), so nothing's going to get burnt. The only concern is the weird plastic smell getting infused into your food.
I don't know why anyone who games would like to eat fried chicken while gaming. You have to eat it with your hands, and it's so greasy that you need to wash your hands afterward or risk covering your mouse and keyboard in grease.
Let’s stop giving corporations free advertising by diverting attention to meaningless stunts like this.
Especially the worst corporations, like those in the fast food industry, that are a net negative to our society.
I’d like to see KFC and other fast food chains start being taxed heavily on undesirable macronutrients like sodium and saturated fat, individual items exceeding reasonable calorie limits, and regulated against marketing toward children like the tobacco industry (unless macronutrients of their meals meet health standards). Junk items should have disclaimer labels stating that daily consumption of those items will shorten your lifespan and/or cause health problems, just like cigarettes.
Obesity is our #1 public health epidemic and nobody’s doing anything about it. I think I read that obesity is a factor in 6 of the top 10 most common causes of premature death in the United States.
Over 80% of Americans are overweight and close to 40% are obese.
I don't mind if the "worst corporations" do something fun like this every once in awhile.
At least it distracts them from their focus of "shortening your lifespan".
Also as far as marketing to kids goes, KFC is not really the problem that other fast food chains are, so its not really fair to level that criticism at them.
Okay I looked into it and apparently it is not entirely hot air.
KFC has a deditcated 'KFC gaming' account that tweets memes that appeal to gamers [0]. It jokingly tweeted a video featuring a rendering of this console back in June as a joke to play on the new gen console wars [1]. Apparently the reception was so good that it found a wing man in Cooler Master. This case modder / engineer in particular [2] spent a couple of months designing and fitting working hardware plus a chicken drawer into a hot new case design as close to the original tweet as possible.
As the result turned out to a not entirely half baked pc build, KFC has stated that it plans on release the console. We'll have to see wether that will turn out true or not, but as the harware probably consists of of-the-shelf components I have no doubts that there will be at least a couple be built.
Next thing you know, Apple will announce their latest innovation, the new Apple iPie; to keep your apple pie warm while you use their latest ARM device.
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Practically I kinda doubt you'd want frying temperature anywhere near a computer, but you should be able to get warm enough to safely hold already cooked chicken.
Edit: I think this is the KFC patent for the combi-oven: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5077065A/en
It does sound like a very well-executed joke.
(Apologies for injecting humor on what is clearly an otherwise serious posting)
>Heat generated (higher is better)
But ultimately I think it is vaporware and they are just pushing the “it’s real” narrative for social media reach.
CM could be taking the piss, but it would be kinda neat if it was real. I don't see a price or ordering information on the page, yet. So 50/50 chance this is legit.
[0] https://ew.com/tv/mario-lopez-colonel-sanders-lifetime-mini-...
It may become a collectors item in certain circles just for the meme of it.
[1] https://www.crocs.com/KFC.html
It can be a product without being a mass market retail product.
Their Japanese division offered a custom keyboard in ~2014 as a contest prize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5tFlmRUIc
For Coolermaster's part, they seem like the kind of company that would dedicate a few engineers to a silly idea for the hell of it.
With a Core i9 they have the hardware to fry the chicken, not only to keep it warm.
No wonder Apple keeps shoveling money into their bank vault.
A chicken fryer would compete with KFC, while a chicken heater would heat KFC-fried chicken.
(maybe an enterprise version with franchise-enabled deep-fried deep-learning chicken?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ust_Er_oX5A
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXAiBpIz2_I
This was shown at trade shows as an optional module for the expandable case, but wasn't a real product.
There's a couple of pictures of the full Rocket ship here: https://twitter.com/ItsBBP/status/1327563474550059009
Especially the worst corporations, like those in the fast food industry, that are a net negative to our society.
I’d like to see KFC and other fast food chains start being taxed heavily on undesirable macronutrients like sodium and saturated fat, individual items exceeding reasonable calorie limits, and regulated against marketing toward children like the tobacco industry (unless macronutrients of their meals meet health standards). Junk items should have disclaimer labels stating that daily consumption of those items will shorten your lifespan and/or cause health problems, just like cigarettes.
Obesity is our #1 public health epidemic and nobody’s doing anything about it. I think I read that obesity is a factor in 6 of the top 10 most common causes of premature death in the United States.
Over 80% of Americans are overweight and close to 40% are obese.
At least it distracts them from their focus of "shortening your lifespan".
Also as far as marketing to kids goes, KFC is not really the problem that other fast food chains are, so its not really fair to level that criticism at them.
KFC has a deditcated 'KFC gaming' account that tweets memes that appeal to gamers [0]. It jokingly tweeted a video featuring a rendering of this console back in June as a joke to play on the new gen console wars [1]. Apparently the reception was so good that it found a wing man in Cooler Master. This case modder / engineer in particular [2] spent a couple of months designing and fitting working hardware plus a chicken drawer into a hot new case design as close to the original tweet as possible.
As the result turned out to a not entirely half baked pc build, KFC has stated that it plans on release the console. We'll have to see wether that will turn out true or not, but as the harware probably consists of of-the-shelf components I have no doubts that there will be at least a couple be built.
source: https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/kfcs-kfconsole-is-real-...
[0] https://twitter.com/kfcgaming
[1] https://twitter.com/kfcgaming/status/1341428570388901891
[2] https://timpelay.se https://www.instagram.com/p/CJbBVdzAPR8/
They might have to redesign the case a bit, however.
"Honey, can you make me some chicken too?"
"Sure, no problem!"
(compiles firefox)