Connected Kitchen Recipe Transformation for Appliance-Guided Cooking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional approaches to sharing and interacting with recipes and cooking are static and do not effectively integrate with modern connected kitchen appliances, lacking dynamic customization and appliance integration, leading to user frustration and inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilizes an ingredient database, action database, and appliance database to generate customizable recipes, converting user comprehensible recipes into abstract and functional forms, integrating with connected appliances through a graphical user interface and transformation engine, allowing for guided cooking and appliance control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional static recipe approaches are used, then recipe information can be shared, but user customization and appliance integration are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments recipe information into structured components including ingredients with unique identifiers, actions with unique identifiers, and appliance capabilities. This segmentation enables flexible recombination and customization while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular data organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal framework that works across multiple appliances and recipe types. The standardized databases of ingredients, actions, and appliances enable any connected kitchen appliance to participate in recipe execution, providing multi-functionality without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Productivity
If manual recipe following is used, then cooking can be performed, but time consumption and user effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables appliances to perform actions autonomously based on structured recipe data. Appliances self-configure and execute their designated actions without continuous user intervention, significantly improving cooking efficiency while reducing the time users spend manually monitoring and adjusting the cooking process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary processing of recipe information into structured abstract recipes that pre-define appliance actions, ingredient quantities, and cooking parameters. This preliminary structuring enables appliances to execute tasks efficiently without requiring users to manually prepare or calculate cooking parameters during the cooking process.
3Adaptability or versatility
If generic recipe instructions are used, then recipes can be shared, but cultural and linguistic appropriateness is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by associating specific cultural and linguistic attributes with recipe components. Ingredients, actions, and instructions can be customized for different cultural contexts while maintaining the core recipe structure, allowing cultural adaptation without losing essential recipe details through standardized identifier systems.
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AI summary
The present application provides a system for use in a connected kitchen allowing a user to find and use traditional recipes as would be found in a recipe book but to have them automatically customized to their language, locality, dietary preferences and the appliances in their kitchen.