Adaptable cooking appliance circuitry for controlling cooking accessories

Abstract

A cooking appliance assembly includes a cooking appliance including a heat source and a port including a socket; at least one cooking accessory including an accessory sensor, a plug, and a resistive element, the plug being removably received within the socket; a variable resistance module provided within the cooking appliance and operably connected with the port; and a controller communicatively coupled with the cooking appliance and the at least one cooking accessory, the controller configured to perform an operation. The operation includes determining an accessory type of the cooking accessory engaged with the port of the cooking appliance; adjusting, via the variable resistance module, a reference resistance at the variable resistance module based on the determined accessory type; and selecting a corresponding temperature table or equation based on the determined type of the cooking accessory.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.