In the 21st century, the taste of food has been highly commercialised. Algorithms on social media dictate "authentic" taste, transforming traditional dishes like Dongpo Pork into data models to be replicated and compared. In this process, individual taste buds are overshadowed by standard procedures, where any deviation is regarded as an error.

The project emerges from this background as a performance piece. It involves the cooking of materials not traditionally recognised as food—mobile phones, mice, data cables, and keycaps. Placing these items in a pot to be stirred functions as a symbolic act. The video follows a familiar YouTube cooking recipe format—a visually led, tightly edited, step-by-step structure that compresses real time into sequential actions. Using sound for instruction while maintaining consistent pacing.

The work engages with Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975), shifting the focus from gender roles to digital technology and commercial platforms. Ultimately, the work is not concerned with creating a dish, but with an irreplaceable process that reveals systems of regulation and control.