Control method, storage medium, and information providing method

A non-transitory storage medium storing a program of controlling a terminal device connected to a cooking device,

• each of the user logs includes (i) food information associated with a food subject to cooking in a cooking device used by a user and (ii) a description of a user ID of the user,
• the terminal device includes a processor, a display, and a memory that stores the description of the user ID of a first user of the first cooking device,
• the program causing the terminal device to execute:
• sending, to the server using the processor, the description of the user ID of the first user and food information associated with a food of the first user to be cooked;
• acquiring, from the server using the processor, (i) a standard cooking time corresponding to the food of the first user to be cooked and (ii) a recommended cooking time corresponding to the food of the first user to be cooked and the description of the user ID of the first user;
• displaying, on the display using the processor, a user interface including one or more selection regions, each of the selection regions indicating a cooking time, the one or more selection regions including (i) a first selection region corresponding to the standard cooking time and (ii) a second selection region corresponding to the recommended cooking time;
• in response to detecting that the first selection region corresponding to the standard cooking time is selected by an input operation performed on the user interface, outputting, to the first cooking device using the processor, a setting command to set the standard cooking time corresponding to the first selection region;
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• in response to detecting that the second selection region corresponding to the recommended cooking time is selected by an input operation performed on the user interface, outputting, to the first cooking device using the processor, a setting command to set the recommended cooking time corresponding to the second selection region.

An information providing method performed by a server that is connected via a network to a terminal device and a first cooking device,

• the server including a processor and a memory that stores user logs,
• each of the user logs includes (i) food information associated with a food subject to cooking in a cooking device used by a user, (ii) a description of user ID of the user, and (iii) a cooking time set in the cooking device by the user for cooking the food indicated by the food information,
• the method comprising:
• acquiring, from the terminal device using the processor, (i) food information associated with a food of a first user to be cooked in the first cooking device and (ii) a description of a user ID of the first user,
• calculating, using the processor, a recommended cooking time corresponding to the food of the first user to be cooked in the first cooking device based on user logs from among the user logs including the food information associated with the same food as the food of the first user to be cooked in the first cooking device,
• outputting, to the terminal device using the processor, (i) a standard cooking time corresponding to the food of the first user to be cooked and (ii) the recommended cooking time to cause the terminal device to display, on a display of the terminal device, a user interface including one or more selection regions, each of the one or more selection regions indicating a cooking time, the one or more selection regions including a first selection region corresponding to the standard cooking time and a second section region corresponding to the recommended cooking time,
• in response to detecting that the first selection region corresponding to the standard cooking time is selected by an input operation performed on the user interface, outputting, to the first cooking device using the processor, a setting command to set the standard cooking time corresponding to the first selection region, and
• in response to detecting that the second selection region corresponding to the recommended cooking time is selected by an input operation performed on the user interface, outputting, to the first cooking device using the processor, a setting command to set the recommended cooking time corresponding to the second selection region.