Rotimatic has a few recommended flour types from Aarshirvaad and Sujata/Pillsbury but you can use other brands. For example, an Amazon Dash-style button that lets you instantly order more flour when you’re running low. But it would be good if the machine and app made more use of the connectivity. Ultimately the app will also feature Rotimatic recipes. The app offers a decent instruction manual too, if you prefer screen to paper. This lets the machine automatically download new firmware and allows for remote diagnostics. Yep, it’s on the Internet of Things (IoT). To set Rotimatic up properly, pair it with its (iOS or Android) companion app and use that to connect it to your Wi-Fi. So as well as the machine and all its containers, there are cleaning brushes, a quick start guide and a more detailed instruction manual. It’s attractively and efficiently packaged and comes with everything you need bar the ingredients. Unboxing is a good experience, as you’d hope for with a premium appliance. So don’t buy it unless you can spare the worktop space above a single kitchen unit. It’s something you’d keep on the worktop at all times because your family eats a lot of flatbreads. It’s definitely too big and heavy to whip in and out of a cupboard on demand. It seems huge but, with a footprint of 40 x 40cm, it only takes up 50 per cent more worktop space than our Cuisinart breadmaker. The machine itself, unpacked, weighs 20kg and takes up a lot of worktop space. The box it arrives in is a two-person lift ideally it’s a bit of a struggle for one. And, incredibly, once the machine is up to temperature, it can churn one out every 90 seconds. Rotimatic instead pulls in ingredients from three receptacles on the top – flour, water and oil – kneads them, rolls out the flatbread and then cooks it. You can’t just knead it and then bake it in the same container. Making roti is quicker but a much more complex process than baking a loaf. Rotimatic really is packed with tech: 10 motors, 15 sensors, 300 moving parts and a Wi-Fi connection team up to make you your daily bread. Which is not to say that it’s unimpressive.
A more down-to-earth description would be that Rotimatic is a breadmaker for flatbreads. Just don’t expect to step out of your sci-fi flying car and be greeted by your cheery robotic baker. Rotimatic is billed as the world’s first flatbread-making robot and this is no lie.
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