Food cooking device, an electronic library and methods related thereto

An electronic library (600) including a plurality of information units (601), which are arranged to be downloadable from external users, characterized in that each information unit (601) includes a set of food cooking process data including at least two food item cooking instructions, each food item cooking instruction including data defining a food item and at least one group of operation parameters, said group of operation parameters including energy supply data and related time duration data for a heating means in a cooking device.

A method for cooking food on a cooking device (300) having a plurality of heating means (301a-301d) for heating a respective food item and control means (302a-302d) arranged to control the energy supply to each of the heating means (301a-301d), characterized by

• using a cooking device (300) having a microprocessor (303) with downloading means (304),
• downloading a set of food cooking process data,
• controlling the energy supply to a plurality of the heating means in response to the downloaded set of food cooking process data.

A method for providing food cooking support, characterized by

• electronically storing a plurality of sets of food cooking process data in a format including at least two food item instructions, each food item cooking instruction including data defining a food item and at least one group of operation parameters, said group of operation parameters including power supply data and time duration data for a heating means in a cooking device, and
• arranging the sets of food cooking process data to be downloadable from external users.

A method for providing food cooking support, characterized by

• delivering a set of food cooking process data for downloading in a format including at least two food item instructions, each food item cooking instruction including data defining a food item and at least one group of operation parameters, said group of operation parameters including power supply data and time duration data for a heating means in a cooking device.