Cooking method using multiple cooking appliances

Abstract

A method of operating a plurality of cooking appliances includes receiving, by a first cooking appliance of the plurality of cooking appliances, an input indicating a first stage of a multi-stage cooking operation. The method also includes checking, by the first cooking appliance, a status of a second cooking appliance of the plurality of cooking appliances in response to the input indicating the first stage of the multi-stage cooking operation. The method may further include initiating the first stage of the multi-stage cooking operation by the first cooking appliance based on the status of the second cooking appliance or disabling the first stage of the multi-stage cooking operation by the first cooking appliance based on the status of the second cooking appliance.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.