Food processor and method for taking a food sample

A food processor system, the system comprising

• a food preparation vessel defining an interior space with an upwardly-facing opening,
• a rotatable tool mounted in the interior space to interact with ingredients in the interior space and configured to be driven by a drive located outside the interior space,
• a lid configured to be coupled to the food preparation vessel and to move relative to the food preparation vessel from a closed state blocking access at least partly to the interior space from the upwardly-facing opening to an opened state allowing access to the interior space through the upwardly-facing opening,
• a lock device reconfigurable from a locked state in which the lid is retained in the closed state to an unlocked state in which the lid is released to allow a movement to the opened state, and
• a control device in communication with the drive and the lock device, wherein the control device is configured to operate the rotatable tool and the lock device in one of a cooking mode for modification of ingredients in the interior space and a sampling mode for safe removal of a sample from the interior space, wherein activation of the sampling mode from the cooking mode is initiated by at least one of a digital recipe step, receipt of a user input from an enabling unit, and receipt of a signal associated with movement of the lid from the closed state toward the opened state, and wherein the control device is configured direct reconfiguration of the lock device from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to activation of the sampling mode.