Cooking management method, food processor, and system for carrying out a cooking operation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The integration of cooking processes into daily life is often hindered by time constraints, as users face challenges in coordinating cooking with leisure activities and entertainment schedules, leading to inefficient use of time and reduced leisure opportunities.
Innovation Solution
A cooking management method that synchronizes cooking processes with entertainment programs by determining a planning interval based on user entertainment schedules, allowing for automated or partially automated recipe execution, with features like start and end time planning, user interaction notifications, and integration of navigation and activity data to optimize cooking timing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users manually coordinate cooking timing with entertainment schedules, then cooking can be completed, but user time and leisure opportunities are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically determining cooking start times based on entertainment program schedules before the user needs to cook. The food processor is pre-configured with recipe data and automatically initiates cooking operations at optimal times, eliminating the need for users to manually coordinate cooking with their entertainment schedules.
Solution Approach 2:
The food processor serves itself by automatically managing the cooking process based on integrated entertainment schedule data. The system self-determines when to start and stop cooking operations, self-monitors recipe progress, and self-coordinates with entertainment programs without requiring continuous user intervention or manual timing.
2Ease of operation
If cooking process is integrated with entertainment scheduling, then time management is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The food processor is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a cooking appliance and as an intelligent time-management system. It integrates multiple functions including recipe storage, automatic timing, entertainment schedule synchronization, and user notification, allowing a single device to handle both cooking operations and scheduling coordination without requiring separate dedicated systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses an intermediary approach by integrating with existing entertainment devices through standardized communication interfaces. Rather than requiring complete system redesign, the food processor acts as an intermediary that receives schedule information from entertainment programs and translates it into cooking operation timing, leveraging existing infrastructure to reduce overall system complexity.
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AI summary
The invention concerns a cooking management method (100) for planning a cooking process (200) of a kitchen machine (1) comprising the following steps: determining (105) an entertainment program (201) of an entertainment apparatus (2); determining (106) a planning interval (202) in which at least one user of the kitchen machine (1) is connected to the entertainment machine (2) to enjoy the entertainment program (201). The invention also concerns a food processor (1) and a system for carrying out a cooking operation (200).