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'Wallace and Gromit' gadget cooks full breakfast automatically

A contraption in the style of Wallace and Gromit has been built which cooks breakfast automatically, including an omelette, toast and freshly squeezed orange juice.

Yuri Suzuki (pictured) with the breakfast making device: Wallace and Gromit gadget cooks full breakfast automatically
Yuri Suzuki with the incredible Wallace and Gromit-style machine that automatically makes breakfast in the morning Photo: CATERS

Yuri Suzuki, 26, a design teacher in London, who worked at the Royal College of Art, made the 15-metre long device with fellow artist Masa Kimura, 28.

The machine was made in the Platform 21 exhibition centre in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and saw scores of helpers and other designers contribute.

It cooks up omelettes from scratch before toasting bread, which it can butter and add jam to - depending on taste.

And of course the early morning pick-me up of coffee is also available at no extra effort - as well as freshly squeezed orange juice.

Mr Suzuki, who was born in Tokyo and has lived in Hackney, east London, for three years, said he had been inspired by Hollywood films.

And he said it should be possible for lazy people to come up with their own version of the device.

"If someone wanted to make one for themselves it might not leave you that out of pocket," he said.

"We bought a lot of the stuff from a car boot sale, so it didn't cost that much - in total the project was probably £900

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

"It was completely automated, it worked on its own - I felt like the conductor at the event when we were putting it together.

"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.

"It is absolutely massive and is 13 metres by three metres and in total took 88 hours to build, spread over 11 days - it was an incredible effort."

The machine was started back on September 16 and used a bizarre selection of devices including alarm clocks and record players.

Its ingenious design meant the smaller mechanisms were incorporated into the bigger machine to make the breakfast experience even easier.

The omelette is created as an egg falls down a slide, which leads to a funnel which makes it shed its shell and jumbling up the yolk and white before dropping it onto a hot plate for cooking.

The toast starts its life as a loaf of bread, which is then sliced up on a belt, which drops it into a toaster.

When it pops it is then propelled onto a customised paint roller-style device that adds butter and jam if required.

The coffee machine works by using a motor system to constantly grind coffee beans before it falls through into a filter.

Hot water, boiling nearby, is then added with the help of an automatic pulley system before the hot, black coffee is delivered to a waiting cup ready to drink.

And the orange juice machine is similarly clever as the fruit tumbles through a tube, where they are sliced up.

Their journey continues through a grinder, before being filtered into a glass ready to drink.

The idea of the fully automated breakfast machine is not a new one, with film characters from Back to the Future's Dr Emmett Brown and Plasticine heroes Wallace and Gromit all trying their luck.

And while this latest creation has now been dismantled, it could be set to live on across the globe.

Mr Suzuki said he hoped fellow designers could get some inspiration from his collaboration and admitted plans were afoot for it to come to Britain.

He said: "We want to bring it around the world and I want to bring it here to London very soon. I see breakfast as a symbol for a beginning, due to when you eat it - at the start of the day.

"It took a long time with a lot of people working on it, but it was worth it."

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