136 results about "Meal preparation" patented technology

A system and method for method defining, creating, and managing meals according to user preferences regarding a diet plan, preferred foods, preferred meal preparation options, and meal times. An expert system uses information about an individual's diet preferences and related goals, to develop a personalized plan including a complete meal plan and to generate meal suggestion messages for each meal. Meal suggestion messages are transmitted to users' portable devices at their preferred meal times. If a user accepts a meal suggestion, nutritional information regarding the accepted meal is tracked and considered in determining the user's progress toward a goal. If a user rejects a meal suggestion, the expert system generates a meal substitute suggestion or a specific food item substitute suggestion. When the user accepts the substitute suggestion, nutritional information regarding the substituted meal or food item is tracked and considered in determining the user's progress toward a goal.

A system and method for generating meal suggestion messages using an expert system and then pushing those suggestions to users. Meal suggestions are tailored to users based on their tastes and preferences. Users specify preferences related to a diet plan, food preferences, meal time preferences, and meal preparation preferences. An expert system considers each user's preferences and nutritional data to generate meal suggestion messages consistent with the user's preferences and dietary goals. Meal suggestions are pushed to the user according to the user's preferred time for eating each meal. The user can accept or reject the suggested meal or one or more foods within a suggested meal. For rejected meal suggestions, a meal substitution message is generated and sent. The expert system uses accepted and rejected meal suggestions to determine if certain foods or entire meals should no longer be recommended to individual users or to system users as a whole.

An automatic meal preparation apparatus is provided which has a top section with compartments for raw food and at least one spice/sauce cartridge; a middle section with a cooking vessel; and a bottom section with a heating element. The sections are stacked in series within a housing. The compartments of the top section are disposed above the cooking vessel. The cooking vessel is in communication with the heating element. A controller receives a selection of a recipe from a user, and executes instructions of the recipe to selectively heat the heating element at certain times, and selectively dispense at least a portion of the raw food and a pre-determined measure of spice/sauce. The apparatus stirs and cooks the food and the spice/sauce in the vessel for a specified duration, in accordance with the recipe.

A system and method (100) for use by consumers for facilitating the grocery shopping experience for providing food and grocery multimedia content that includes a first computer system (110) for providing an executable software product to a consumer containing program instructions for food recipe selection (203), displaying multimedia advertising content (231), and preparing a shopping list (251). A second computer system (107) uses the executable software product for coordinating selected food recipes (223) with the multimedia content (231) for assisting the consumer in meal preparation. The consumer may coordinate selected food recipes by supplying the executable software product with a plurality of variables to provide at least one recipe fitting the consumer's criteria. These variables include total days, number of servings, target caloric number, and total purchase amount.

The invention belongs to the technical field of new materials, relates to an animal bone meal preparation process, and solves the technical problems of unreasonable process steps, poor product quality and the like in the prior art. The preparation process comprises the following steps of: A, stewing; B, calcining; and C, crushing. A white powder-like bone meal finished product is obtained by the process steps. Compared with the prior art, the animal bone meal preparation process has the advantages that:1, the process flow is simple and is easy to operate and implement; and the production cost is low; 2, the production environment is clean; the production efficiency is high; the product quality is stable; the hygienic indexes are high; and the application field of the prepared bone meal is wide; 3, the bone meal has high content of calcium, phosphorus and the like, high activity, and is easier to be absorbed when serving as a feed or a food addition material; and 4, because of high-temperature calcination, a bone is easy to crush; the bone meal has good color and luster; and the particle size is fine after being crushed.

A spice dispensing device is provided for an automatic meal preparation apparatus. The device uses a replaceable cartridge containing a volume of spice for dispensing in predetermined volumetric doses. A dispensing mechanism is built in to the cartridge for isolating the predetermined volumetric dose and moving it toward an opening in the bottom of the cartridge. The cartridge is sized and shaped to be placed into the automatic meal preparation apparatus in a rack for containing a plurality of such cartridges. The cartridge is alignable with a position in the rack in which the spice dose can be dispensed directly into a cooking vessel of the apparatus.

A board game which combines traditional board game elements with an unrelated activity, that of preparing a meal. The board has three paths of serially arranged spaces along which player tokens travel. A chance device determines the number of spaces moved. Upon alighting on any particular space, a card is drawn, which card is color coordinated to the space just occupied. The card specifies an interactivity such as a question to be answered or a musical theme to be tapped, hummed or whistled. The player must interactively respond. Upon completion of the first path, players select, on a first-to-arrive basis, a task associated with meal preparation, serving, and cleanup. An example is mixing and serving of a beverage, or cooking the entree. One option is to be relieved of any task. Upon completion of the path by his or her token, each player receives an instructional card advising details of the associated task. The game is played in three phases, each utilizing one path and corresponding to three phases of a meal, such as appetizer, entree, and dessert. Optionally, invitations to a combined meal and game are sent prior to the event by postcard.

The invention relates to the technical field of food processing and particularly discloses a method for dry method rice meal preparation, rice meal for fresh rice noodles, rice meal for baked foods and rice meal for cooked foods. The preparation method sequentially comprises the steps of tempering, rice blending and grinding, wherein the tempering means that the moisture content of rice is adjusted to 16-25% and the rice moistening is performed for 12-18 h; reasonable rice blending is performed according to product usage and quality requirements; the grinding means that a roller mill is adopted to perform grinding, and a material is sieved through a sieve with 100-160 meshes, and the material placed above the sieve is placed in a Raymond mill to undergo secondary grinding. The rice meal prepared through the preparation method is low in damage starch ratio, multi-purpose rice meal such as the rice meal for fresh rice noodles, the rice meal for baked foods and the rice meal for cooked foods can be produced, and the method is favorable for industrial production and has the advantages of being high in production efficiency, low in energy consumption, high in raw material utilization rate and free of pollution.

The invention discloses an intelligent cafeteria which comprises a meal preparation area, a meal taking area, a delivering area penetrating through the meal preparation area and the meal taking area, a meal ordering system for ordering a meal, a meal preparation system arranged in the meal preparation area and connected with the meal ordering system in a network mode, a meal delivering system arranged on the delivering area and connected with the meal preparation system in a network mode and a recycling system used for recycling tableware. According to the intelligent cafeteria, automatic meal delivering is achieved through the meal delivering system, when a diner finishes the meal, the diner can put the tableware onto the tableware recycling system in a self service mode, and then the tableware recycling system recycles the tableware to the meal preparation area, so that hiring of cafeteria waiters is reduced, labor cost is reduced, collision during meal taking can be further effectively avoided, thus the relaxed and happy meal taking mood of the diner is improved, and preference of the diner to the cafeteria is added.

Disclosed is a system and method for managing ingredients and recipes while providing an interface for consumers to request a meal based on one or more recipes. Additionally, preparation and production steps are defined based on the ingredients of one or more recipes. The time for preparation and production is also calculated and presented.

The invention discloses an automatic catering system, and belongs to the technical field of the restaurant service industry. The automatic catering system includes a beverage storage cabinet, the beverage storage cabinet is fixed on the ground, a meal ordering panel is arranged in the middle of the front side of the beverage storage cabinet, a cash outlet and a change port are formed in the rightside of the meal ordering panel, a beverage mouth is formed right below the meal ordering panel, meal ordering plates are arranged on both sides of the meal ordering panel, a meal conveying channel isformed in the right side of the front side of the beverage storage cabinet, a first conveying belt is arranged inside the meal conveying channel, a first liquid crystal display is arranged above themeal conveying channel, a meal fetching table is arrange below the meal conveying channel, and the meal fetching table is aligned with the upper surface of the first conveying belt; a mechanical arm is arranged on the rear side of the beverage storage cabinet facing directly the meal conveying channel, a meal preparation table is arranged on the rear central part of the beverage storage cabinet, the meal preparation table is separated by a baffle into equally spaced meal preparation areas, a second conveying belt and a proximity switch are arranged at the bottom of each meal preparation area,and a second liquid crystal display is arranged on the right side of the back of the beverage storage cabinet. The automatic catering system has the advantages of being high in efficiency, simple in operation, low in operation cost and manpower saving.

An apparatus (10) for preparing meals, which is suitable in particular for use on board a commercial aircraft, includes a meal preparation unit (12) and a supply unit (14). The supply unit (12) includes a fuel cell system (16) having a fuel cell (18) and is equipped to supply the meal preparation unit (12) with water produced by the fuel cell (18).

The invention relates to an intelligent meal preparation and settlement system for self-service catering. The intelligent meal preparation and settlement system comprises an intelligent dish with an RFID electronic tag; a meal plate used for containing the intelligent dish; a multipurpose intelligent meal preparation table with a heat preservation function; a product outlet console which is in communication connection with the product outlet terminal of the intelligent meal preparation table and the nutrition price tag display screen and is used for setting the names and price information of the dishes corresponding to the dish placing areas on the intelligent meal preparation table; a switching bracelet which is used for manually sending an instruction to the product outlet terminal to switch the dishes on the dish switching display screen; a self-service settlement table for self-service settlement and a cloud platform management system of a master control system. According to the intelligent meal preparation and settlement system, different application schemes can be set according to different dining scenes, different application requirements can be met, meanwhile, various settings are managed by a background in a unified mode, various products are provided, self-service settlement is achieved, and meal taking and dining are more convenient and efficient.

A method for preparing a meal includes obtaining current order information for a dining customer; outputting prompt information for the kitchen to prepare meals according to the current order information; obtaining a request to put dishes prepared for the current order information into a meal taking device; in response to the request, determining information of a meal taking device into which thekitchen is required to put the dishes, and outputting the information of the meal taking device, or outputting instruction information for processing the request for the request. The meal preparationmethod provided by the application can facilitate the kitchen to know the current order information, and prepare the meal according to the prompt information, thereby reducing the negligence and omission in the meal preparation process, and improving the meal preparation efficiency. In addition, the meal preparation method can also assist the kitchen in putting the dishes into the meal taking equipment to improve the efficiency of the dish providing. A meal preparation system is also provided.

The invention relates to a canteen intelligent meal ordering and taking system, which comprises an intelligent ordering terminal, a meal preparing printer, a face recognition meal-taking cabinet, an ordered meal output end, a scanning output machine and a cloud server. The order information made by the intelligent ordering terminal is transmitted to the cloud server and the face recognition meal-taking cabinet. The cloud server matches a corresponding order or pre-order information, and transmits the same to meal preparing printer to be printed. After the meal is prepared in the background, the scanning output machine prompts that the meal is completely prepared by scanning a code. The face recognition meal-taking cabinet searches out an empty storage compartment, and transmits the searched empty storage compartment information to a meal putting robot arm. The meal putting robot arm puts the prepared meal into the storage compartment of the face recognition meal-taking cabinet so as tocomplete the meal preparation and placement. The system realizes full automation in the ordering, taking, and preparation process, greatly improves the efficiency of the user to order and take the meal, the work efficiency of the canteen workers and the satisfaction of the users, and also reduces the labor cost.

A system selects meals according to a user's tastes and presents media files instructing execution of the meal. The media file is presented as a set of segments, each segment having a thumbnail image and metadata associated therewith. User interactions with the segments are monitored and evaluated to determine whether the segments are viewed, viewed for inspiration, and/or viewed while executing the meal. Actions monitored and evaluated may include movement of a user device during a viewing, pausing of playback, appropriateness of pausing locations to meal preparation steps, and orientation of the device. The metadata of segments and the viewing status thereof is used to determine a user's tastes and skill level to facilitate selection of subsequent meals for the user.