“I absolutely love this!”: This new Bunnings machine can give your weekend snags on the barbie a high tech twist
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Are you planning to throw a few snags on the barbie with your loved ones this weekend? You might want to check out this new addition to Bunnings’ famous sausage sizzles.

Chef Robbie Bell took to TikTok to share his latest find at his local Bunnings.

The Melbourne-based head charcutier posted a clip of a sauce dispensing machine, which he spotted outside a Bunnings store in Hawthorne.

Source: TikTok/@robbiebell8
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The machine, also known as a ‘SauceBot’, evenly dispenses sauce along the sausage sandwich in a zigzag pattern. The dispenser makes use of a pulley system to hold the bread and the snag and features two hoses — one for tomato sauce and another for mustard — that squirt the sauces.

It also features two buttons — a red button for tomato sauce and a yellow button for mustard — which allows people to pick which sauce they want to douse their sausage in.

Although some people call the invention 'lazy' and 'pointless', others sang praises to this genius hack.

One man wrote: “Covid safe, disability-friendly self-saucing machine. Hell yeah, very nice."

“I absolutely love this,” another added.

SauceBot was invented by a team at Connected Community Hackspace and has been in use on Melbourne streets since 2019.

However, due to the multiple lockdowns in the city in the past 18 months, the machine hasn't had much exposure to the general public.

The weekend tradition of snags on the barbie, which has raised funds for community groups, Credit: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty.
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The weekend tradition of snags on the barbie, which has raised funds for community groups, has been sorely missed outside Bunnings stores for many months due to the pandemic.

However, the hardware giant said that they were expecting the comeback of sausage sizzles in all of their stores in the next few weeks.

What are your thoughts on this sauce dispensing machine? Tell us in the comments below.

 

[Topher]

Reduces contact with the sauce bottles - just the controls that would need sanitising. This actually makes sense! (and I bet a few people would buy snags just to use the machine! )

 

[BabsL]

What if I want 1 1/2 squirts of Sauce, and only 1/2 a squirt of Mustard?
And, I do not want zigzag sauce.
I want a swathe of sauce on my snag, with onions under the snag.