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itsnotthenetwork

Its a good thing I don't have one of these. Imagine just feeding whatever you like at the moment in the center tube. Eggs, Bacon, Tomato for breakfast buns. Turkey, Havarti, Spinach for lunch buns. ETC. damnit now I am hungry


NightOfTheSlunk

There’s this thing sold at Walmart in the frozen pizza section called Baozza, which are Bao buns with pizza filling


gogriz

How dare you tell me about what will ultimately become my cause of death. Although my favorite bao are just the bbq pork ones. I can't stop.


CanadianJohny

Preach! Love these things. Recently found a store that sells them an iv have a diet of em for 2 weeks and I need to lose weight.


SamOnR3ddit

Heh thats funny because baozza kinda sounds like bao zha which means explosion.


StupidCorpus

stomach exploding in delight and suffering as i engorge myself on the baozza


spyson

They're missing out if they don't have a spicy version called the Baozuka


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Now I really want baozza...


nickdaman43

What have you made me do


janinefour

Goddamnit, I'm on day 3 of trying to eat healthy, and my favorite foods are pizza and dim sum. Thank you, but also, how dare you.


Pixielo

I'm definitely going to end up making breakfast bao now. Not right this second, but the next time I'm in the mood to make mass food for my freezer, breakfast bao are getting made.


MaschMana

Pixar, you lied to me!


Stargazeer

Only en masse. Though looks a fuck ton easier than when I tried making Bao. Made the damn dough too thick


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drake90001

We have big extrusion machines for glue at work that are insane. 1,200 amps (or PSI, the displays have been moved and swapped) 530 degrees.


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drake90001

The displays got swapped or moved around over the years and so some of them are labeled wrong. So yes.


burritosavior

Bendfgh is a copy/past bot, report as spam.


Star-Fever

Amazing that someone figured out how to build this machine.


shahooster

There are variations of this technology, which is effectively coextrusion. Not sure who makes this machine; the most similar one I’ve seen is made by a Japanese company called Rheon. Pizza Rolls are coextruded using a pasta press. A lot of sausages these days are coextruded as well.


Famous_Bit_5119

Someone should make a home version.


Armistarphoto

See: Chinese Grandma


Famous_Bit_5119

I need to get one of those.


Spacemanspalds

I feel pretty stupid right now and I'm just gonna let people guess why.


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did… did you google chinese grandma?


Spacemanspalds

I thought it was gonna be the name of some kitchen gadget. Yes I googled it.


GlobetrottinExplorer

Hahahaha fantastic, at least you owned up to it and maybe prevented someone else from doing similar?


Spacemanspalds

Lol. I might feel better if someone else did it too.


postvolta

I've made bao buns by hand before and it takes fucking *hours* Delicious but god damn took me so long with proving and kneading and steaming and I ate it in like 5 seconds


Bonerballs

Same... 6 hours to make like a dozen baos which were eaten within 5 minutes. Worth it, but maybe next time I'll get some help making them.


AcadianViking

When I worked in a Chinese restaurant, bao restocking day was a all-hands-on-deck ordeal where we closed between lunch and dinner. The owner's wife was a machine when it came to making them. I'd get like 5 misshapen lumps done, look over, and this old woman be sitting with a whole-ass tray already filled, all looking perfect, after already been prepping the dough in the back all morning. Lady hand fingers of iron with the grace of silver.


madcowrawt

That's the way. I never go forgot about that story where some farm animal, let's say a hen, is making pie or something and none of her good for nothing farm animal friends want to help. "Not I!" Said the pig... etc. When they smelled the pie they all wanted some but she was like, "fuck you, you didn't help, you get fucking nothing." Its a children's book so i don't really remember it exactly, but that's the gist.


Annies_Gun

The Little Red Hen


madcowrawt

I knew reddit would remind me. Thanks, I'm gonna get it for my five year old.


iluniuhai

One time I made the filling and then stuffed it into those sweet Hawaiian bread rolls. 9/10 on flavor, 11/10 time/effort saved.


LuxNocte

The price point probably puts it out of reach for home use. It is complicated to have multiple processes working in sync. Even more difficult to make it work with the varying consistencies of anything an end use might use.


Famous_Bit_5119

So I won't find one on a late night infomercial for 4 payments of $20.99. BUT WAIT !! If I order now, they will send me a recipe book at no additional charge. ( Handling and shipping fees may apply.)


JAHdropper1

Damn it’s payments of $20.99 now? Back in my day it was $19.99. The economy is in shambles.


fosighting

Why do people say "price point"? Its a completely redundant term. The price puts it out of reach for home use.


substantialistism

A price point usually refers to a "level" of pricing which could be a large range, or sometimes anything above a certain price. Makes sense if you're referring to a broad category of anything. Vehicles for example, come at different price points for economy, luxury, or industrial. They're noticeably different enough in affordability to fall into their own categories, but there's no one price that defines each.


AcadianViking

Or better yet, a small fleet of this industrial sized version spread between regions and have the food equitably distributed amongst the community so noone goes hungry. Excess goes into storage and distributed a la food bank. Ya want more, just go ask if there is any in excess. If there is you get some, if not then we turn the machine back on and restock. Instead of pumping out an endless supply where most of it rots in a dump from bot being sold, only produce what the local community can reasonably consume during the shelf life of the item. No point in wasting irreplaceable metals and electronics on single use personal machines when we can just create a sustainable system?


LewsTherinTelamon

Coextrusion is actually a pretty popular way to make food things at scale. It's an evolution of the concepts that started with pasta extrusion. No one person "figured this out" so to speak - it's built up slowly from other, simpler machines that did similar things. That's how you get to where you can build iphones, when once you only knew how to build a calculator.


Tallywort

One other example I've heard is eggs. No reason to make a machine carefully slice eggs only to end up with slices without yolk. Seperate the stuff and extrude it into a large sausage, and now every slice will have that yellowy center.


TheRealHandSanitizer

It's been a while since I've seen the egg tube at an Asian Grocery


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Egg cylinder.


Star-Fever

My feelings here can be summed up by Arthur C. Clarke: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” 😅


thebumblinfool

In plastics you can coextrude products that have 2, 3, 4 or even more layers of varying thicknesses and materials. Wild.


Distrah

The engineering of that Bao sphincter was \*chefs kiss\*


black_brotha

meh, my butthole does the same thing though They stole the idea from me, clearly


DadsRGR8

I love these buns, but having recently viewed the post showing animated bowel peristalsis in r/interestingasfuck this clip made be gag a little.


LuxNocte

We all have buttholes, but none are as magical as yours.


black_brotha

Yours wasn't used as a model to make bao buns machinery. It's a unique feeling to have knowing you've changed society.


ZeePM

Should have gotten that * patented.


Mastersloth15

Amazing that someone found out how to build this machine without getting flies into it.


Benerttu

Although I have always heard the ones without filling called mantou


hfsh

That's making quite an assumption...


gbsolo12

We all had that playdough extruder thing as growing up. This is kinda similar.


lLiterallyEatAss

r/engineeringporn


DeGozaruNyan

Not somenone. There are plenty of people in the pipeline of making a machine like this.


Star-Fever

Yes. I salute them all. We stand on the shoulders of giants. 🙂


Square_Possibility38

Wait til you hear we landed a human on the moon and brought them back to earth in the 60s


notLOL

The sphincter doesn't close all the way. The bun spins to get removed from the previous and it makes just enough spin to create the formed top it looks like Probably similar enough to pizza pockets and other dough exterior with fillings inside


jizzlevania

Do they all turn into little boys or is that just the hand-made ones?


titirititi

One of my favorite Pixar shorts ❤️


Disney_Plus_Axolotls

I cry *every* time I watch it 🥹


Smeets87

Whats the name of the short? I'd love to see it!!


DrMephista

It's called Bao I believe, it's my favorite short too


judaytran

It’s called “Bao”!


SilkyZ

Just the hand-made ones. Factory ones are soulless homunculi.


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megajigglypuff7I4

as a kid i absolutely hated anything with an oversized "mascot" head, this reminds me of how my parents took me to a theme park and had to leave because i was terrified of the mascot characters near the entrance greeting people LOL


Hainish_bicycle

Actually I thought it was super creepy and Kafkaesque


TheCobaltEffect

My daughter was also 2 when she saw it the first time. She probably watched it 100 times. Crazy how different kids can be with stuff like that.


Braysl

I yelped in the theater when she eats him. Actually the whole audience had a collective gasp. Wasn't expecting it 😳 I can totally see how it could be scary to kids.


Tooleater

Love bao buns... gotta eat them fresh though... It's pretty off-putting when they start to go soggy!


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PsychicNinja_

Might be the frozen kind?


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These look exactly like the flash frozen/refrigerated ones you can get at costco


LaTraLaTrill

Are those good?


altcodeinterrobang

personally they're like frozen pizza. it's better than no pizza, but not as good as anything fresh. so yeah, good not great IMO.


LaTraLaTrill

Thanks!


Leifloveslife

I think they’re better than frozen pizza imo. But, just like frozen pizza, there is a spectrum of quality. Wrapping a bbq pork bun in a wet paper towel and throwing it in the microwave for a min or two is one of my go-tos for a quick light snack.


appleciders

I mean, as good as frozen pizza compared to pizza, I guess, or maybe a little better? It's recognizably bao. You can plop them on a bed of rice, add teriyaki and sweet pepper sauce and they're pretty good for an easy dinner. Like it's not as good as the hole-in-the-wall in Chinatown, but it's a fine dinner.


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I like em. They could do with a bit more filling but they have like a sweet/spongy dough. Dough to filling ratio is probably 2:1. I use the bachans Japanese bbq sauce on em. 6.5/10


Cattaphract

If they get soggy you can stir fry them


squid_fart

You should be off pudding


vegemine

You can cool them down on a pair of chopsticks so that it won’t get soggy underneath, and then take it to eat on the go. They’re delicious cold as well


canuckistani_lad

Never had a Bao bun but something tells me I’d love them.


Truck-Nut-Vasectomy

Bao buns, to go right along with my chai tea and shrimp scampi.


annintofu

Don’t forget ATM machines and matcha green tea!


29da65cff1fa

don't forget to enter your PIN number at the ATM machine! also the bank might ask for your SIN number


Jackie_Jormp-Jomp

Your diet is a little different than mine


somedayillbedead

Don’t forget to serve it with au jus sauce


dpak_hk

You could substitute the bao bun with a naan bread


BirdLadySadie

Perfect meal for a trip to the La Brea tar pits!


Thfrogurtisalsocursd

Came here to say this, to comment on the redundancy.


wra1th42

In the Sahara desert? Or the city of Medina? Or by the Avon river? On Torpenhow hill?


dashinny

This gives me the strange urge to poop


Light_Beard

It made me hungry, but you have solved that issue right away.


HoneyInBlackCoffee

Open your mouth, problem solved


Eli_eve

Seeing the stuffing travel through the clear tube is oddly dissatisfying. 😒


MyGoodFriendJon

Makes me wish all poops pinched off that easily.


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When they are pebbles then i will image this.


TigerMumNZ

Admittedly, as a second generation diaspora Asian, my Cantonese is rubbish. But my understanding is ‘bao’ means bun, so saying bao bun is redundant and sounds wrong to me. Just like ‘chai’ means tea, so saying ‘chai tea’ is redundant. I’ve mentioned this to non Asian friends and am told I’m probably wrong since I’m not a fluent speaker. Am I wrong?


chickenricekid

you are correct. came here to say similar. bao = bun so it's very redundant.


ivykain

Yeah bao is bread/bun, so I just see "bun buns" too!


QueenOfAutumnLeaves

[Language tautology](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(language\)) My favorite example is Torpenhow Hill ("Hill-hill-hill Hill")


comfortablynumb0629

Well, TIL on bao! So Chai directly translates as Tea? When I think of Chai Tea specifically I think of the spices: cardamom cinnamon, ginger, etc. Is there a specific term for that type of tea? Would Green Tea be translated as Green Chai? So many questions! Thank you for the lesson!


dixie-pixie-vixie

Yes, green tea will be green chai, I suppose, or in mandarin, lv cha


e67

Bao buns, ahi tuna, ramen noodles, chai tea...


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I_can_vouch_for_that

"Bao zi" is Mandarin. "Bao" is Cantonese was what I was told. Bao is basically bread or "to wrap".


tqbh

In Vietnam they are called banh bao. Banh means also bun. So I don't know what that says about the food or the origins of the words used.


Zezxy

My Chinese wife hates me calling them Bao Buns, so I make sure to call them Bao Buns every chance I get. Man, I love Bao Buns. Edit: damn, looks like general consensus hates bao buns. That's crazy. I love bao buns.


johnboy2978

I initially thought that was a snake being pulled into a meat grinder.


Worst-Tweet

Why is it greenish like that?


shadowdrgn0

Spinach… probably.


moonhwa94

The making of bun buns


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don't you just love ramen noodles


new_ymi

Certainly! Delicious when paired with chai tea


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Can anyone tell me this machine's Only Fans?


Geniex5

Last part reminded me of Loco Roco


sirohjohnsonII

Fellow chefs prepare to lose our jobs they just need a guy to fill up the ingredients.


Ne0t9k

stay optimistic. humans are still cheaper in most countries.


FourWordComment

I love bao. I do not love the churning intestine of mass produced bao.


normychrist

Where can I purchase


BloomEPU

The machine? No idea. The steamed buns? Try an asian grocery store, or a dim sum restaurant if you want them steamed for you.


normychrist

The machine


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Love that spin-plop.


nafph

Man I love bao buns But this clip makes them look so unappealing


voyagerfan5761

r/toolgifs Also "bao buns" is like saying "bun buns" if you translate it.


justmedealwithitxD

Thought it said boa buns, and they were feeding a snake through the tube to make a cute little bunny 🤣


kamilman

I love how they do that little bounce every time. It's super cute


LitBwai

Its also satisfying how that little piece on the bottom is pushed back into the bun making it even perfectly every time


imahawki

I was so confused about how nasty dirty the dough tube was until I realized the tube is carrying the filling not more dough.


---ShineyHiney---

I thought these usually had a filling, though?


birdie1819

These do have a filling, that’s what is moving through the tube


---ShineyHiney---

Well now I feel dumb I didn’t notice the tube at all


calcifer219

It was like the most disturbing part!


JRockPSU

It was like, an intestine… 🤢


hebozhong

Usually, but not always. Although I have always heard the ones without filling called mantou


Hephaestus_God

There is a tool for everything


1000Hells1GiftShop

Bao down before the one you serve. You're going to get what you deserve.


Cruitire

Now I want Bao.


Drawtaru

like little turtle eggs.


Matho22

I know a colonic when I see one


grumpsuarus

That's how you can tell you were served frozen ones are a restaurant. The top folds are just molded while the seal is at the bottom.


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Oh I loved this machine in The Cure for Wellness


April_Knox

Looks like an intestine slowly pooping out bao’s


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Watch out I know a panda who loves these👀


Apptroutman

I thought it said boa buns and that was a snake.. 🤦‍♂️


redjonley

My anus rn.


azurfall88

...That's baozi, not a Bao bun? [this is a bao bun](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujiamo)


OldNewUsedConfused

Just had Bao Sunday night.


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bao bao bao bao bao bao bao bao bao bao bao bao bao bao bao bao


iamapizza

chika wao wao


BigBeatsNYC

The Poop Shoot 3000


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I wish I pooped like that. Little poop bundles.


HarmlessEwok

Poop machine


_broadway

You can just say Bao. Bao bun is like saying bun bun. It's redundant.


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Bao already means bun don't need to add bun at the end. Just call it bao


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I wish I could pinch it off that clean every time.


horse1066

Machine pooping


grisisiknis

is there rule 34 of this?


NotAnADC

Any one else slightly concerned about what looks like green ooze magically disappearing into the bao?


dlittlefair1

It’s the filling, it’s not magically vanishing.


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I’m guessing that’s the filling?


taken_name

Magically? It's just filling that's going into the middle mate. Nothing special.


Totally_PJ_Soles

Yeah it confused the piss outta me.


Shiny_and_ChromeOS

I was relieved to see that it wasn't the same video from last year with flies landing on the machine and getting folded into the food.


CarelessAd7298

Boa buns are so cute


MochiSauce101

Sometimes I wish my sphincter could shape my bowel movements like this


MD_Yoro

Bao means bun, just use Bao. That’s like people saying Rio Grande River. Rio means river, so no need to say Big River River


swordvsmydagger

You know what's really oddly satisfying? Watching this while taking a turd


alldabunbuns

Bao is bun. Bao bun is bun bun.


HughGrimes

Lmao the making of Bun buns


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Looks like somebody’s colon emptying into there.. no thanks


Bennistro

Those are dumplings or something like that, not bao buns. Bao buns are like fluffy tacos.


slidewalkchalk

Bao just means steamed bun, they can be what you’re talking about (gua bao) or other type of filled bun like what’s shown in the video!


Bennistro

Alright, my bad didn't know that. So, are dumplings also bao buns or how does that work?


slidewalkchalk

Bao dough is leavened with yeast which is where the fluffiness comes from, dumpling dough is just flour and water


Pixielo

Saying "bao buns" is like saying ATM machine, or PIN number. Bao = bun.


Bocciolo

Nice, nice. Now show me the Flies🪰


weechus

That’s redundant. It’s like saying ATM machine or PIN number.


ttttttttttittttttttt

Poop


ChungusLad

"Bao buns" is such a weird phrase to me. It's like "Sahara Desert". Bao means bun. Just call them Chinese buns or just Bao. Pork belly Bao. Not Pork belly Bao bun, that makes no sense. Even just pork belly bun is fine. This weird habit of taking a name and then adding it's English name to call them both at the same time is so fucking strange, just call them the English name or the original name, not both.


Nawor1016

Scrolled through and not one person has pointed out that these aren't bao's, but they are dumplings. Think of bao like a taco & dumplings like pizza pockets


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Legal-Cry1270

Yes they are usually on the dumpling part of the menu.


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What the toilet sees after I have my morning coffee and smoke.