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There is a new chef in town who plans to give Heston Blumenthal a run for his money.

The cooking-maestro, named Watson, has been impressing crowds in Zurich with its broccoli mango soup, chocolate burritos and Belgian bacon cake.

But Watson isn't any ordinary chef.

It is, in fact, a supercomputer who originally rose to fame after beating quiz show champion Ken Jennings at Jeopardy.

Click below to view Watson's recipes 

Watson, created by IBM, uses a database of tried-and-tested recipes from around the world.

It then combines this with information about which flavours are present in ingredients, and uses something called 'hedonic perception theory' to model how humans react to its recipes.

Chefs begin by inputting a main ingredient, such as apple for instance, as well as a regional cuisine such as Eastern Europe.

Watson then flips through a nearly endless database of recipes.

The offbeat list of ingredients Watson spits out may not always sound delicious - suggesting apples has coaxed Watson to produce the offbeat garlicky, pork loin-laced Baltic Apple Pie.

But it is the taste that matters.

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Supercomputer, super chef: IBM has put its famous Jeopardy champ supercomputer Watson to use whipping up cutting edge recipes for its food truck tour

The cooking-maestro, named Watson, has been impressing crowds in Zurich with its broccoli soup with mango, chocolate burritos (pictured) and Belgian bacon cake

Pork belly apple pie, anyone? Chefs input a main ingredient and Watson pumps out a list of other ingredients that sound weird, but that science states taste delicious when put together

At a recent demonstration in Zurich, Watson began by cooking a beefsteak tomato taco with a splash of cider vinegar, some vanilla and a few pieces of lemon peel.

It then created a broccoli soup with mango chunks, orange juice and cider. This was followed by a bottle of Bengal butternut barbecue sauce on the side and a Middle Eastern chickpea ragout.

Dessert came in the form of a green-tea pudding with whiskey, tapioca and cardamom.

'The soup sounds awful', Michel Roux Junior, a two Michelin star chef told James Dean at the Times. 'But my palate tells me the green-tea pudding would work.'

FANCY COOKING LIKE A SUPERCOMPUTER? HERE ARE WATSON'S RECIPES

CAYMANIAN PLANTAIN DESSERT

Et voila! Chef's enter a main ingredients and a regional cuisine of their choice

Milk: 255 g, divided

Butter: 44 G, divided

Molasses: 28 g

Pure Vanilla Extract: 1 tsp

Nutmeg: 0.3 g

Very Ripe Bananas: 170 g, very ripe, medium dice

Egg Yolks: 3

Light Brown Sugar: 45 g

Flour: 14 g

Lime Juice: 17 g

coconut flakes: 28 g

orange juice: 113 g

Cayenne pepper

Papaya: 128 g, small dice

Corn Oil: For deep Frying

Plaintain: 1, very cold

Salt

Off beat: While many of the recipes might sound odd, the IBM chefs say they've all tasted delicious

TURKISH BRUSCHETTA

Japanese Eggplant: 1 kg, about 3

Sumac: 8 g

Dried Oregano: 1 g

Parmesan Cheese

Sun Flower Oil: 10 g

Chiffonade, Basil: 6 g

Salt: 6 g

Coarsely Grated Carrot: 100 g

Scallion: 28 g, tops removed, sliced

Cumin: .7g

Hungarian Sweet Paprika: 1 g

Sumac: 2 g

Baguette: 24 thin slices

Sun flower oil

Scrumptious: IBM anticipates that Watson will offer virtually unlimited recipe combinations to amateur and professional chefs alike one day soon

SWISS-THAI ASPARAGUS QUICHE

Butter: 5.5 oz, Divided

Water: 2.9 oz, divided

Egg Yolk: 2, divided

Salt: 1.5 tsp, divided

AP flour: 8 oz, sifted

Lemongrass: .4 oz, thinly sliced

Leeks: 4 oz, white part only

Asparagus tips: 28, 2.5" long

Eggs: 3

Heavy Cream: 7.5 oz

Plain whole-milk yogurt: 7.5 oz

Mild Curry Powder: 3/8 tsp

Ground Coriander Seeds: 1/4 tsp

Ground Black Pepper: 1/8 tsp

Feta: 2 oz, crumbled

Gruyere: 1.5 oz, grated

Curly Parsley: 1/2 tbsp, finely chopped

European tastes: The Watson food truck had its debut at a Las Vegas technology show in March. The truck (pictured) is now cooking up its recipes at IBM's research headquarters in Zurich

As well as the billions of combinations Watson can come up with, having the chefs there to decide how to use the ingredients makes for even more possibilities.

'Two different chefs can get the same list of ingredients and come up with completely different dishes,' James Briscione, one of the chefs working with Watson and IBM, told The Salt.

The chef isn't afraid of losing his job to the supercomputer, though.

He told The Salt that sometimes a list of ingredients will have all the best flavours but none of the all-important aspect of a great dish, texture.

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'You can end up with a list of ingredients, and none of them has an element of crispiness,' he said.

IBM is showing off Watson's diverse skill sets as position themselves to make the Sueprcomputer's benefits available to businesses and individuals.

The company said its new Manhattan-based business unit devoted soley to Watson will be dedicated to the development and commercialisation of the project that first gained fame by defeating a pair of 'Jeopardy!' champions, including 74-time winner Jennings, in 2011.

In the years since Watson's TV appearance, IBM has been developing the supercomputer for more practical purposes and changed it to a cloud-based service.

Its massive computing capabilities once took a device the size of a room, but Watson is now the size of three stacked pizza boxes, according to BetaNews.

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IBM claims Watson is unique because it it's programmed like traditional computers, but uses artificial intelligence to learn from its past experiences and factor this information into its future operations.

'IBM has transformed Watson from a quiz-show winner, into a commercial cognitive computing breakthrough that is helping businesses engage customers, healthcare organisations personalise patient care, and entrepreneurs build businesses,' said Michael Rhodin, who heads the Watson Group.

IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty said that Watson is built for a world where big data is transforming every industry and every profession.

'Watson does more than find the needle in the haystack,' Rometty said in remarks released ahead of the Watston Group's unveiling. 'It understands the haystack. It understands context.'

More practical than Jeopardy: IBM has been thinking big when it comes to Watson and since its 2011 Jeopardy win against champs including Ken Jennings, the firm has created a Manhattan-based arm of the company specifically geared toward putting the supercomputer to use for businesses and consumers

Small but powerful: Its massive computing capabilities once took a device the size of a room, but Watson is now the size of three stacked pizza boxes