Automated Cooking Control With Feedback Temperature Regulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Many individuals struggle to achieve high cooking standards due to lack of time or patience, and existing cooking methods require significant practice to develop skills effectively.
Innovation Solution
An automated cooking control system that uses smart cookware and mobile devices to provide automated control recipes, monitor cooking processes, and assist users in preparing meals through coordinated control of cooking equipment and user instructions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If automated cooking control system is implemented, then cooking consistency and skill improvement are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mobile device as an intermediary between the user and the cooking equipment. The mobile device receives user input, determines appropriate cooking parameters, and transmits control signals to the cooking equipment, thereby mediating the complexity away from the cooking equipment itself while maintaining cooking consistency and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The cooking control system is segmented into separate functional components: the cooking equipment (heating element and sensor), the mobile device (processing and user interface), and the communication channel. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, reducing the complexity burden on any single device while maintaining overall system reliability.
2Loss of time
If automated cooking control is used, then cooking time is reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cooking equipment is equipped with automated temperature sensing and control capabilities that allow it to self-regulate the cooking process. The sensor continuously monitors temperature and automatically adjusts heating, eliminating the need for manual timing and monitoring by the user, thus reducing cooking time without requiring complex external control systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements automated feedback control where the temperature sensor continuously monitors the cooking state and feeds this information back to the control mechanism. This closed-loop feedback enables automatic adjustment of cooking parameters to achieve optimal results in minimal time, reducing cooking time while keeping the control system manageable through intelligent algorithms.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques are described for automated control of portions of a cooking process, such as to control activation and heating for a cooking location having a piece of cooking equipment. Such automated control may include executing an automated control recipe having defined instructions used to automatically control at least some aspects (e.g., surface temperature) of the cooking equipment piece (e.g., a pan on a stove cooking surface) as part of a cooking episode to prepare one or more dishes, and may further include coordinating actions of a human user who is participating in the cooking episode by providing instructions or other information to the user. Related food preparation systems and cookware devices and components are also provided in connection with which the described automated cooking control techniques and methods may be used.