A Bunnings Warehouse customer has noticed a robotic machine dispensing tomato sauce and mustard over sizzled sausages at one of the popular hardware stores.
Shades McCarthy posted a now-viral video on TikTok showing off the ‘SauceBot’ outside the hardware store in Hawthorn, Melbourne.
In the short clip, he’s encouraged by the staffer to press the red button to top the snag with tomato sauce followed by a yellow button for mustard.
‘Bunnings snags living in 2050,’ he wrote online.
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A video has emerged showing a Bunnings Warehouse ‘SauceBot’ outside the hardware store in Hawthorn, Melbourne. Shades McCarthy posted a now-viral video on TikTok showing off the unique machine
Instead of manually squirting the condiment out of a bottle, the machine drizzles tomato sauce in a zigzag followed by mustard over the sausage, which sits in the centre of a slice of white bread with caramelised onion.
Customers can choose which condiment they prefer by hitting either the red or yellow button.
The machine is simple to use, just place the sausage sizzle with a napkin in the holder and watch it do its magic.
In less than 24 hours the video went viral and was viewed a staggering 673,000 times.
‘The future is now,’ one person wrote, another added: ‘When the engineering department take over the sausage sizzle.’
While many were amazed, some couldn’t believe barbecue sauce wasn’t an option available.
‘They chose mustard instead of BBQ to load into the machine? What?!’ one person said.
‘What about BBQ sauce?’ another asked.
It’s an iconic Australian weekend activity to go to Bunnings and pickup a snag while shopping
The SauceBot, which was created by a group of Melbourne ‘hackers’ called Connected Community Hackerspace, first appeared outside of the Bunnings store in Hawthorn in 2019 – and has since attracted huge crowds every weekend.
Customers couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw the machine two years ago that could revolutionise the traditional Bunnings sausage sizzles.
‘What is this magic?’ one shopper wrote at the time.
Customers can choose which condiment they prefer by hitting either the red or yellow button. The machine is simple to use, just place the sausage sizzle with a napkin in the holder and watch it do its magic
The SauceBot, which was created by a group of Melbourne ‘hackers’ called Connected Community Hackerspace, first appeared outside of the Bunnings store in Hawthorn in 2019 – and has since attracted huge crowds every weekend
Pictures and videos on social media show scores of shoppers gathering around the stand, watching the machine dispense condiments.
Last year the retail giant slowly brought back its iconic sausage sizzles after the fundraiser was cancelled across NSW and Victoria due to coronavirus restrictions.
It’s an iconic Australian weekend activity to go to Bunnings and pickup a snag while shopping.