The Amazing All-In-One Breakfast Machine

You’ve seen it the movies and in Wallace & Gromit, but now two 20-something-year-old Japanese designers have built a real-life breakfast machine that does everything at the push of a button.

Yuri Suzuki and Masa Kimura’s almost-magical machine scrambles eggs, juices oranges, brews coffee, makes toast – and even plates the whole thing up with jam, meat and cheese.

The machine works by chain reaction, beginning when the push of a button sends an egg rolling from a chicken cage down a chute and onto a hot plate where it breaks and cooks. The finished scrambled egg then drops onto a plate on a sliding tray – all while a coffee grinder is dropping freshly ground beans into a cup, and water is boils for the perfect brew. A loaf of bread rides on a conveyor belt for slicing and then drops into a toaster. When it pops, it’s carried to a butter and jam paint-roller. Fresh-squeezed orange juice lands on the tray, and voila, breakfast! (Watch a video of the machine in action here.)

Suzuki, 26, and Kimura, 28, built their machine in 88 hours at the Platform 21 exhibition center in Amsterdam – with lots of help from fellow designers and passersby. They started Sept. 16 with a pile of junk – alarm clocks, record players, remote-controlled toy cars – they bought for about £900 ($1,481 US) from garage sales.

"We had lots of different people come and help us out with putting it together. People came and we would task them with coming up with different bits of it," Suzuki told the UK's The Telegraph.

The inspiration for the project: Hollywood, of course.

"When you look at movies like Pee Wee Herman and Back to the Future, there are breakfast machines in them," Suzuki said.

The 13-meter-long machine won’t be mass produced anytime soon, but lazy types around the world may soon get a crack at it.

Suzuki told The Telegraph: "We want to bring it around the world ... I see breakfast as a symbol for a beginning, due to when you eat it – at the start of the day."

We can’t wait to egg the machine on. 

Photo courtesy Arne Hendricks via Flickr.