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US 2021/0259453 A1Published application
Cooking device and system
AssigneeRj Brands, LLC
InventorsRalph Newhouse, Harold Brooks, Rene Midouin
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for computer controlled cooking devices is provided. The cooking apparatus may include an outer housing, an inner lining, a housing cavity, an insert, a controller, a heating element, and a user interface. The base may include a plurality of feet. The plurality of feet may comprise a plurality of pressure sensors. The controller may be configured to receive input signals corresponding to electrical communications from a plurality of pressure sensors. The user interface may include a display and the display may present an image corresponding to a pressure sensed by the plurality of pressure sensors.
Claims18
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- an outer housing having an annular wall defining a height of the outer housing and a base;
- an inner lining disposed within the outer housing and having a bottom connected to an annular sidewall extending up from the bottom and terminating at a rim, the sidewall and bottom defining an insert cavity that is open at the rim;
- a housing cavity defined by an interior annular portion of the outer housing, an exterior annular portion of the inner lining and the base;
- an insert comprising substantially the same size and shape as the inner lining so as to fit within the cavity;
- a controller disposed within the cavity outer housing;
- a heating element connected to the controller;
- a user interface disposed on the annular wall of the outer housing and comprising a display and at least one input sensor;
- the base further comprising a plurality of feet;
- the plurality of feet comprising pressure sensors wherein the pressure sensors are in electrical communication with the controller;
- wherein the controller is configured to receive input signals corresponding to electrical communications from the plurality of pressure sensors and, in response to the receipt of the input signals, display on the display an image corresponding to a pressure sensed by the plurality of pressure sensors.
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A cooking system comprising:
- a user cooking device comprising a controller in electrical communication with a transceiver configured to send and receive wireless communication signals;
- a user computer in electrical communication with a transceiver configured to send and receive wireless communication signals;
- an internet connected remote computer having stored thereon a plurality of approved recipes;
- wherein each approved recipe corresponds to a recipe for cooking food using the same model cooking device as the user cooking device and each recipe having been cooked using the same model cooking device as the user cooking device prior to the recipe being stored on the remote computer;
- wherein the user cooking device and user computer are each wirelessly connected to the remote computer;
- wherein the user computer sends control signals to the user cooking device through the remote computer and the user cooking device provides operational feedback data to the user computer through the remote computer.
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A method of cooking food comprising:
- accessing a recipe on a remote computer via a user computer wherein the recipe includes instructions for cooking food utilizing a specific model cooking device;
- activating a cooking device corresponding to the specific model cooking device of the recipe;
- displaying on the user device a first recipe step identifying a desired weight for an ingredient to be cooked;
- placing the ingredient into the cooking device and the cooking device automatically transmitting the weight of the ingredient to the user computer;
- displaying on the user computer an indication that the weight of the ingredient in the cooking device corresponds to the desired weight of the ingredient;
- advancing the recipe on the user computer to a second step that instructs the user to add a second ingredient to the cooking device;
- reaching the end of the recipe and the user device automatically transmitting a signal to cooking device to start cooking according to a time provided by the recipe and a cooking setting provided by the recipe;
- the cooking device cooking the ingredients according to the time and cooking setting in response to receiving the signal to start cooking.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.