Cooker
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsJingwei Tan, Yun Chen
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Abstract
A cooker comprises a cooking chamber configured to cook food with water; a first unit configured to feed water to the cooking chamber; a second unit configured to obtain information related to an interruption of the cooking; and a controller configured to operate the first unit according to the information related to the interruption, after the cooking recovers from the interruption. With the cooker, the influence of the interruption on the cooking process, in particular on the water fed to the cooking chamber, is taken into account, which helps to improve the taste of the cooked food.
Claims9
A cooker, comprising:
- a cooking chamber configured to cook food with water;
- a first unit that comprises a water feeding device configured to feed water to the cooking chamber and a water discharging device configured to discharge water from the cooking chamber;
- a second unit, responsive to an interruption of a cooking program for cooking the food in the cooking chamber, for obtaining information related to the interruption, wherein the interruption comprises a stop of cooking temporarily which is not according to the cooking program;
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- a controller configured to (i) control an operation of operate the first unit according to the cooking program alone in response to an absence of the interruption, and (ii) control the operation of the first unit according to a combination of both (a) the cooking program and (b) the obtained information related to the interruption of the cooking program, in response to a recovery of the cooking program from the interruption for cooking in the cooking chamber recovers from the interruption, wherein the recovery includes at least one of a power recovery or a user movement of the cooking chamber back in contact with a heater,
- wherein the information related to the interruption comprises at least one of
- (i) a cooking phase of the food at a time of the interruption,
- (ii) a time duration of the interruption,
- (iii) a first temperature of the food when the cooking program for cooking in the cooking chamber recovers from the interruption, and
- (iv) a detection of the interruption.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.