Cooking appliance

A cooking assistance appliance for use with a cooking appliance, the cooking assistance appliance comprising:

• a housing configured to be positioned adjacent to a cooking appliance within a line of sight of a cook surface, wherein the housing includes a head connected to a neck extending from a base;
• at least one image sensor provided in the head for generating image data of the cooking appliance;
• a controller including a processor configured to process the image data to determine a condition of a food item in a cooking vessel on the cooking appliance, said condition relating to a liquid volume or a liquid level measurement;
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• a communication interface for communicating the determined condition of the food item in human understandable form.

A cooking assistance appliance for use with a cooking appliance, the cooking assistance appliance comprising:

• a housing sized to be positioned on a counter adjacent to the cooking appliance, positionable within a line of sight of a cook surface of the cooking appliance, with the housing including a head, a neck, and a base;
• at least one image sensor for generating image data of a food item on the cooking appliance provided in the head to view the cook surface via the line of sight;
• at least one temperature sensor for generating temperature data of the food item on the cooking appliance provided in the head to view the cook surface via the line of sight;
• a controller including a processor configured to process the image data and the temperature data to determine a condition of a food item, said condition relating to a cooking status of the food item;
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• a communication interface for communicating the determined condition of the food item in human understandable form.

A cooking assistance appliance for use with a cooking appliance, the cooking assistance appliance comprising:

• a housing including a head positionable within a line of sight of a cook surface of the cooking appliance;
• at least one image sensor for generating image data provided in the head;
• a controller including a processor configured to process the image data to determine a condition of a food item on the cook surface, said condition relating to a liquid volume or a liquid level measurement;
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• a communication interface for communicating the determined condition of the food item to a user.