Method and apparatus for cooking using coded information associated with food packaging

A system for cooking comprising:

• a cooking apparatus having
• a housing containing a controllable cooking element for cooking food, the cooking housing supporting at least one manually actuatable input device for manually inputting an instruction to cook the food and a sensor for sensing first information from an enclosure for enclosing food brought proximate to the housing;
• a microprocessor contained within the housing for receiving second information from the sensor relating to the first information sensed from the enclosure;
• the manually actuatable input device controllably connected to the controllable cooking element for controlling the cooking of food, and
• the microprocessor controllably connected to the controllable cooking element for controlling the cooking of food based on the second information;
• and
• a portable electronic flat panel device having a sensor for sensing first information from an enclosure for enclosing food brought proximate to the housing;
• a microprocessor contained within the portable electronic flat panel device for receiving third information from the sensor relating to the first information sensed from the enclosure;
• the portable electronic flat panel device capable of communicating with the cooking apparatus fourth information corresponding to instructions to cook of the enclosed food.