Cooking Parameter Display Appliance with Food-Specific Targets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooking aids, such as timers and temperature displays, fail to account for multiple parameters influencing the cooking process, leading to inadequate cooking results, especially for inexperienced users.
Innovation Solution
A device that detects and displays cooking process parameters, using a setting device, data memory, sensor, microcontroller, and display to compare target and actual values, providing intuitive visual and acoustic feedback to adjust cooking conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a timer or temperature display is used to monitor cooking, then one parameter can be recorded, but other influencing parameters are not taken into account
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple sensors (temperature sensor, pressure sensor, flow sensor) into a single monitoring device that simultaneously measures multiple cooking parameters. This merging of measurement functions allows the device to comprehensively monitor the cooking process by integrating temperature, pressure, and fluid flow data into one unified system.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring device is designed with multi-functionality to handle various cooking scenarios. It can monitor different parameters (temperature, pressure, flow) and adapt to various cooking methods (steaming, pressure cooking, boiling) by processing multiple types of sensor data, making it universally applicable to diverse cooking processes.
2Reliability
If multiple sensors and processing units are added to monitor multiple parameters, then cooking process control improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple sensing functions are merged into a single integrated device housing. The temperature sensor, pressure sensor, and flow sensor are combined in one unit that attaches to the cooking vessel, reducing the number of separate components the user must handle while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a microcontroller as an intermediary that automatically processes sensor data and generates control signals. This intermediary component simplifies the system by automating the analysis of multiple parameters and translating them into actionable cooking instructions, reducing the need for complex user interpretation of multiple separate measurements.
3Manufacturing precision
If detailed cooking parameter monitoring is implemented, then cooking precision improves, but ease of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The device provides continuous feedback to the user through a display unit that shows the current cooking status based on sensor measurements. This feedback mechanism allows inexperienced users to see real-time cooking parameters and adjust their cooking actions accordingly, making complex multi-parameter monitoring accessible to users of all skill levels.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring device automatically performs data collection, analysis, and presentation without requiring manual intervention. Sensors continuously measure parameters and the microcontroller automatically processes this data, freeing the user from the need to manually track or interpret multiple cooking parameters, thereby maintaining ease of operation despite sophisticated monitoring capabilities.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances user comfort by allowing precise monitoring and control of cooking processes, ensuring better cooking results by accounting for food-specific and appliance-specific parameters.
Implementation Method 1
Using a sensor device, the device is able to detect at least one actual cooking value in the cooking appliance, that is, for example in the cooking pot, that influences the cooking process
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AI summary
The present invention relates to an appliance (1) for detecting and displaying at least one parameter that is relevant for a cooking process in a cooking appliance (2), comprising - an adjusting device (3), by which at least one food item that is to be cooked can be selected, which is to be cooked in the cooking appliance (2), - a data memory, in which food-specific target cooking values are stored, in particular by taking into account the RGT rule (reaction rate temperature rule), - at least one sensor device for detecting at least one actual cooking value that influences the cooking process, - at least one microcontroller and/or microprocessor for determining a variance between the target and actual cooking values, - and at least one display device (4) for displaying the variance between the target and actual cooking values. In this way, simple cooking with easily reproducible cooking results can be achieved.