Rob Rhinehart’s details his two-month experiment consuming mostly Soylent, a concoction he invented to provide all the nutrition and none of the hassle of food. It first attracted the attention of , and then The Washington Post, which that his plan just might work. Rhinehart, a 24-year-old electrical engineer in San Francisco, soon found himself inundated with queries from people interested in testing Soylent. He’d apparently hit on something that resonated with others.

But wait a minute, we wondered: What exactly is so bothersome about eating food?

“I resented the time, money and effort [that] the purchase, preparation, consumption, and clean-up of food was consuming,” Rhinehart writes on the blog. His liquid solution has left him feeling sated, leaner and more focused, he writes. And in an email to The Salt, he added: “Personally, I’ve found separating the social and cultural enjoyment of food from food as ‘fuel’ has vastly improved my quality of life.”