AI-Enabled Cheetos Offer Promise of the Perfect Puff

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"PepsiCo has developed an AI system to ensure each Cheetos meets its standards on shape, density and crunchiness

PepsiCo Inc. said it would soon deploy an artificial-intelligence system designed to help ensure its Cheetos cheese-puff snacks all have the same texture, crunch and shape.

The food-and-beverage company, which makes Cheetos, Doritos, Lay’s and other snack brands along with its namesake sodas, has developed an AI system that can assess the quality of the fluorescent orange, crunchy puff as they are made and can automatically adjust its Cheetos-making equipment if the snacks don’t meet PepsiCo’s specifications.""


https://science.slashdot.org/story/...led-cheetos-offer-promise-of-the-perfect-puff
 
I have been let down by the planters puffs cheese balls. Found out on reddit that only certain lot numbers are the good ones. I had to eat 4 cans of nasty balls. They should have not let that out of the factory.
 
Everyone knows - cheese puffs are the perfect puff and cheetos are mutant cheese strands made by crazy chester cheetah.

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Just dont mess with the white cheddar puffed cheetos, quite possibly the best cheetos ever made.

If only this was around when Sam wanted every muffin to contain an equal amount of blueberries...
might be at least one less pastry chef buried in the desert. +1 for slipping a Casino ref into a post about cheetos :D
 
Just dont mess with the white cheddar puffed cheetos, quite possibly the best cheetos ever made.


might be at least one less pastry chef buried in the desert. +1 for slipping a Casino ref into a post about cheetos :D
Its the first thing I thought of. And yes, the white cheddar is the best!
 
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The "Simply" White Cheddar jalapeno Cheetos puffs are the best. They're hard to find though.
 
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Apologies to OP for further derailing the topic, but they've got you covered, Kren

https://www.cheezit.com/en_US/products/baked-snack-crackers/cheez-it-extra-toasty-extra-toasty.html

The "Simply" White Cheddar jalapeno Cheetos puffs are the best. They're hard to find though.
I will scour the Earth for these if so! I've never seen them and living in Texas I surely woud've or should've! It's not that I'm skeptical, but jealous... but maybe a little skeptical too :p
 
Apologies to OP for further derailing the topic, but they've got you covered, Kren

https://www.cheezit.com/en_US/products/baked-snack-crackers/cheez-it-extra-toasty-extra-toasty.html


I will scour the Earth for these if so! I've never seen them and living in Texas I surely woud've or should've! It's not that I'm skeptical, but jealous... but maybe a little skeptical too :p
Speaking of scouring the earth, I live in Texas also, and I'll be damned if I can find Chai Tea Vanilla flavor. I used to drink it when I took trips to Virginia. *Not the starbucks crap.
 
Apologies to OP for further derailing the topic, but they've got you covered, Kren

https://www.cheezit.com/en_US/products/baked-snack-crackers/cheez-it-extra-toasty-extra-toasty.html


I will scour the Earth for these if so! I've never seen them and living in Texas I surely woud've or should've! It's not that I'm skeptical, but jealous... but maybe a little skeptical too :p
https://www.cheetos.com/products/cheetos-simply-puffs-white-cheddar-jalapeno-cheese-flavored-snacks

If you click "buy now" you can search for stores nearby that have them. The grocery store I normally go to doesn't have them. It says the Target near me has them, but they rarely do, so I'm not sure how accurate that thing is. Maybe they're supposed to but they just sell out right away.
 
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So, by AI they mean a couple of basic IF-THEN routines?

I'm sure they just trained a deep learning image recognition model with a bunch of cheeto images classified as udnerpuffed, perfect, and overdone.
Something anyone can do nowadays after spending an hour looking at tutorials on the web.
 
OMG They DO exist! :woot:

It's an early Christmas

2 miles from my house this whole time...

AI enhanced deliciousness!
 

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No, I only mentioned AI in a lame attempt to stay on topic.. I'm sorry erek. My weakness for white cheddar cheetos got the best of me.
 
I have been let down by the planters puffs cheese balls. Found out on reddit that only certain lot numbers are the good ones. I had to eat 4 cans of nasty balls. They should have not let that out of the factory.
You HAD to eat 4 cans? Who held you down and forced you to eat them; was it Mary Jane? ;)
 
Those extra toasty Cheez-its are the bomb. Great in soup or layer in grilled cheese sammich.
Gotta say. Never knew cheesy poof consistency was such a concern. Can this tech be applied for perfect balls as well? Found out why those blue balls were so nasty. Apparently they are cotton candy flavored. Around here we have the seasonal release of Ravens purple crab spice cheese balls. Yay celery seed.
 

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Those extra toasty Cheez-its are the bomb. Great in soup or layer in grilled cheese sammich.
Gotta say. Never knew cheesy poof consistency was such a concern. Can this tech be applied for perfect balls as well? Found out why those blue balls were so nasty. Apparently they are cotton candy flavored. Around here we have the seasonal release of Ravens purple crab spice cheese balls. Yay celery seed.
Shit, you mailing that out to me man? I need some of that purple.
 
Shit, you mailing that out to me man? I need some of that purple.
Would love to man. They usually came out in September and haven't spent much time in stores this year for obvious reasons. Would say dump Old Bay on some cheese balls but Utz uses their own propitiatory crab spice made especially for their chips.
 
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I would have thought that they would use AI to determine where each flavor/variety of cheetos sold best and where to maintain stock. To use AI to design the puffs themselves, I can't help think of Data from ST:TNG asking humans about the allure of food, or the conversation in The Matrix about how the machines know what Tasty Wheat should taste like. AI can compile information but it doesn't have taste buds, at least for now anyway.

I have been let down by the planters puffs cheese balls. Found out on reddit that only certain lot numbers are the good ones. I had to eat 4 cans of nasty balls. They should have not let that out of the factory.
The Planters cheese balls we had were excellent, but the cheese curls that shipped with them, eating the cardboard cylinder they came in would probably have been a more pleasant experience.
 
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