Food management and cooking system

Abstract

Disclosed is a food management and cooking system capable of synthetically managing foods contained in a refrigerator in a house and foods cooked with a microwave oven. A main data server 1 manages a food global database 2 for storing all food information as managed object and an individual food management database 3. A refrigerator 5 with food local database 7 and microwave 6 capable of automatic cooking positioned in a house 4. These are coupled through a network 8 in the house. A radio tag storing food identification code is attached to food, and is read when housed in the refrigerator 5 and is managed as stock food. When food is cooked with the microwave oven 6, cooking information is read, and automatic cooking is made possible on the basis of the read data. The food information is available in and out the house with the aid of a portable terminal 10.

Description

Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a food management and cooking system capable of comprehensively managing stored food at homes and the like. Background technique [0002] In recent years, the performance of household appliances and other appliances has been greatly improved, and household appliances with improved user convenience and adapted to the environment are being continuously developed. Among them, electrical appliances that handle food, such as refrigerators, are becoming larger. At the same time, considering that by inputting data when the food is placed in the refrigerator, the user can report information about the payment period to the user through display or voice, so as to avoid missing the food in the refrigerator The compensation period, etc. [0003] In addition, as a microwave oven as a heating cooker for heating and cooking food, there has been a microwave oven that downloads and executes cooking data from the outside via the Internet or t...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] However, although the convenience of each of the above-mentioned home appliances has been improved, for example, in order to heat and cook food stored in a refrigerator with a microwave oven, it is necessary to additionally input food information every time to obtain cooking data, so there is this information The input operation is very troublesome, especially for users who are not used to it, it will be greatly affected in terms of usability

[0005] In addition, even if the types and deadlines of food stored in the refrigerator can be managed in this way, when checking which type of food is to be purchased based on the management information, it is still necessary to check by displaying its storage status, or by directly observing It cannot be said that the management information is effectively used for checking the inside of the refrigerator

Therefore, when you go shopping without such a check, you have to choose the types of items to buy from memory, and the result is over- or under-production.

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