EP2603741A1

EP2603741A1 - Method for providing cooking programmes

Info

Publication number: EP2603741A1
Application number: EP11745532.9A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Torsten Brinkmann; Peter Wiedemann; Katrin Lauterbach; Anja Machowetz; Jürgen KLASMEIER
Original assignee: Rational AG
Current assignee: Rational AG
Priority date: 2010-08-13
Filing date: 2011-08-12
Publication date: 2013-06-19
Also published as: DE102010036988A1; WO2012020129A1; CN103119371A; CN103119371B; US20130236615A1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for providing cooking programmes for at least one selectable product to be cooked which can be cooked in at least two different charges in a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance, wherein each charge has a respectively associated cooking program in which a cooking process is conducted as a function of at least one charge-dependent parameter at least once for each charge, a cooking process which leads to a specific cooking result is selected for each charge, and a cooking programme is stored for each selected cooking process after the charge-dependent parameter is replaced by a fixed parameter.

Description

Method for providing cooking programs

description

The invention relates to a method for providing cooking programs.

In intelligent cooking appliances, such as the cooking appliance marketed by the applicant under the trade name SelfCooking Center®, flexible cooking processes are used in order to be able to offer reproducible cooking results regardless of a feed quantity, a food or a kind of food and the like. For this, an operator must make numerous decisions, which leads to problems for untrained persons. Therefore, many simplifications to these cooking processes have been developed. Thus, for example, the DE 10 2008 016 824 AI of the Applicant deals with an automation of Garabläufen. More specifically, there is proposed to store different, manually guided cooking courses, which are representative of different feeds, such as the course on the one hand with a maximum load on a food of a certain Gargutart with a certain caliber and a certain initial state and on the other hand with a minimum load on the food of specific Gargutart with the specific caliber and the specific initial state to perform on the basis of these two Extremgarverläufe with later passing through the same Garverlaufs an adaptation to the respective load with constant Gargutart, constant caliber and constant initial state. It can thus be automated, the entire middle area between the extremes, in particular via a linear adjustment of the characteristic for the Garverlauf sizes, such as the cooking time, the temperature in the oven and / or the humidity in the oven. This method thus provides a simplification of the operation of a cooking appliance. Object of the present invention i st it to provide a method for providing cooking programs, thereby simplifying the operation of a cooking appliance that the number of inputs to the cooking appliance is as low as possible. In particular, an operator should only need to select a food to be achieved in all variants of the loading of the cooking chamber of the cooking appliance with this food always the same cooking result. This is particularly important when used in restaurant chains of particular importance.

This object is achieved by a method for providing cooking programs for at least one selectable food that can be cooked in at least two different loads of a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance, each feed is assigned a cooking program by at least once for each feed a cooking process in Depending on at least one feed-dependent parameter is performed, a leading to a certain cooking result cooking process is selected for each feed and for each selected cooking process after replacement of the feed-dependent parameter by a fixed parameter a cooking program is stored.

It is provided that a feed is determined by the amount of food to be cooked in the oven, the caliber of the food and / or the initial state of the food, such as frozen or fresh, and / or a cooking result is determined by a degree, in particular an internal and / or. or external Gargrad, preferably at least by the core temperature.

It is preferred that as a feed-dependent parameter, a caliber-dependent parameter, in particular determined by the core temperature of the food, is selected, and / or as a fixed parameter, the time is selected, the food to be achieved, preferably at a certain cooking space climate, in particular a specific oven temperature a certain cooking result, in particular a certain core temperature, must be cooked.

It is also proposed that for guiding a cooking process and / or for storing a cooking program, the cooking appliance must be unlocked by an access check. It can also be provided that the charge is input via an input device or detected by a sensor device, and / or the food to be cooked is input via an input device or detected by a sensor device.

According to the invention, it may be provided that, preferably without access checking, a food item is first selected and then a cooking program provided either automatically takes place after the feed has been input or after the feed has been detected, depending on the respective fixed parameter.

With the invention it is also proposed that cooking programs be provided for at least two different items to be cooked by at least one time for each mixing load of the cooking chamber of the cooking appliance with the two items a cooking process depending on at least one feed-dependent parameter is performed, leading to a specific cooking result of both items Cooking process for each mixed batch is selected and, for each selected cooking process, a cooking program is stored by a fixed parameter after the feed-dependent parameter has been replaced.

Embodiments of the invention may also be characterized in that the guiding of a cooking process in a first cooking appliance and the running of a cooking program in a second cooking appliance, wherein preferably the first cooking appliance with the second cooking appliance, at least temporarily, connectable, in particular in a kitchen network.

Finally, it is also proposed that the cooking programs be stored in a storage device of a cooking appliance, in particular the first and / or second cooking appliance, a portable storage device or a storage device in a personal computer.

Thus, the invention is based on the surprising finding that, depending on the amount of damage caused to the accelerator, the process, albeit in the case of other core-temperature-controlled processes, can be replaced by programs which only have fixed parameters depend, in particular, are purely timed. More specifically, with the The invention proposes that the cooking processes provided by an intelligent cooking device, each of which is composed of a sequence tree with respective decision criteria in the course of cooking, used by a supervisor of a restaurant chain or a program developer and by entering Garparametern, such as the inner degree and / or outer Gargrad, can be modified until a desired cooking result for a particular food with a certain load is present. For example, the cooking courses are carried out in each case as a function of core temperature measurements. Once a cooking course has been found to be in order, so has led to a satisfactory cooking result, for example, the cooking time recorded for this cooking process is determined and stored as a fixed parameter of a cooking program for said food with said feed. If cooking programs have been stored for all feeding variants, then an operator or user can simply call up the respective cooking program, namely by selecting the item to be cooked and, if necessary, entering loading levels of a cooking chamber which are loaded with food. Alternatively, however, the charge can be detected by a sensor device, namely, for example, based on the course of the cooking chamber temperature at the beginning of a cooking. Thus, an erroneous input by the operator or user is almost impossible, so that reproducible cooking results are obtained. By providing cooking programs according to the invention, an untrained operator, al so a conventional user, a path in the basically available process tree of a cooking process by a skilled operator, such as a supervisor, selected before.

Of course, the cooking programs may be changed by the supervisor or developer at any time to save alternative cooking programs. In order to facilitate the work of the supervisor or developer, information about the respective cooking process or cooking process can be displayed on a display device of a cooking appliance. Also, an indication of a variety of cooking courses, for example in tabular form, may take place to facilitate the selection of an optimal cooking process.

An access check can be used to decide whether an operator is a supervisor or operator or user. Further features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description in which exemplary embodiments of the invention are explained by way of example with reference to the accompanying schematic drawings. Showing:

Figure 1 shows courses, as they are performed by a supervisor or developer; and

Figures 2a and 2b cooking courses, as initiated by an operator or user.

For example, a supervisor of a restaurant chain may serve a cooking appliance (not shown) sold by the Applicant under the trade name SelfCooking Center® by first selecting a food to be cooked, such as poultry particles (not shown). Then, an intelligent cooking process according to FIG. 1 starts with a preheating step 1, in which, after reaching a certain preheating temperature, it is indicated that the poultry particles can now be loaded into the cooking chamber of the cooking appliance. At the corresponding loading step 2 is followed by a load detection step 3, in which, for example, based on the course of the cooking chamber temperature is detected, whether little, medium or much load in the cooking chamber. For example, there may be little load when loading one or two trays of the cooking compartment in which six trays are insertable, while one medium load in the case of loading three or four trays and a lot of load in the case of loading five or six trays with the tray Food is present.

As a result of this, it is possible to perform a core-temperature-controlled cooking process control, in which case the supervisor must have specified a desired core temperature or a desired internal degree of cooking for this purpose. At a fixed cooking chamber temperature and a fixed predetermined humidity in the cooking chamber and a fixed setpoint core temperature, the time t _a , t _b , or t _{c will be} different until reaching said setpoint for different feeds, as by the steps 5 a, 5 b and 5 c indicated. More specifically, t _a <t _b <t _c when t _{a is associated} with too little load, t _b mean load and t _{c with} much load. A supervisor can perform several cooking processes according to FIG. 1 and, after assessing the respective cooking result, assign a different rating to each cooking process. Then he can select the cooking process with the best grade to store on the basis of the same a cooking program in which a cooking time is stored for the food, the cooking time depends on the feed, so it is either t in the example of Figure 1 _a , t or t _c .

The supervisor can carry out the cooking process according to FIG. 1 on the basis of an access authorization, so that it is only possible to store cooking programs which have been found to be in order by the supervisor. An operator is denied access to this level and can only invoke the stored cooking programs. For this purpose, he must select the food, so in the present case poultry, so then, for example, automatically runs the cooking program shown in Figure 2 a.

In the cooking program of FIG. 2 a, a preheating step 10 takes place first, then a loading request occurs with the loading step 20, which is followed by a load detection step 30. After load detection automatically finds a selection of the appropriate cooking program and thus the appropriate cooking time in step 40 instead. According to FIG. 2 a, for example, an average load is present, such as in the form of the loading of three slots of the cooking appliance with the food to be cooked, so that the cooking time t _{b is selected in} accordance with step 50 b.

Instead of a load detection under evaluation z. B. the course of the oven temperature can also be the possibility that the user indicates the number of inserts to be loaded with the food, as shown in Figure 2 b.

In the alternative of FIG. 2 b, a user must first select the food to be cooked, in this case poultry particles, and then enter the number of inserts to be loaded with poultry particles, for example three insertions, see step 99. Then, a preheating step 100 automatically takes place comes to a loading request, see Loading step 200. The cooking program is then purely time-controlled, namely with three inserts it comes to the selection of the total time tt _, see step 500 b.

Thus, for a restaurant chain, for example, a selected person, namely the supervisor, can specify how desired cooking results should look by making the relevant decisions in the course of the cooking courses by going through a plurality of cooking processes with different items to be cooked and different loads save simple cooking programs that require a minimum number of decisions, as they run purely time-controlled. The supervisor thus provides a path from which a user can not deviate to ensure consistent cooking quality.

The features disclosed in the foregoing description, the claims and the drawings may be essential both individually and in any combination for the realization of the invention in its various embodiments.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

preheating

loading step

Load detection step

Step of selecting a load-dependent cooking method

a cooking step of duration t _a to reach a certain core temperature b cooking step of duration t to reach a certain core temperature c cooking step of length t _c to reach a certain core temperature 0 preheating step

0 loading step

0 load detection step

0 step of selecting a time-dependent cooking method

0b Cooking step of duration t _b

9 Step of entering the loading levels loaded with food

00 preheating step

00 loading step

00b cooking step of duration t _b

Claims

claims

1. A method for providing cooking programs for at least one selectable food that can be cooked in at least two different loads a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance, each feed is associated with a cooking program by at least once for each feed a cooking process as a function of at least one feed-dependent parameter one to a certain one

Cooking result leading cooking process is selected for each feed and a cooking program is stored for each selected cooking process after replacing the feed-dependent parameter by a fixed parameter.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that

a feed is determined by the amount of food to be cooked in the cooking chamber, the caliber of the food and / or the initial state of the food, such as frozen or fresh, and / or a cooking result is determined by a degree of cooking, in particular an internal and / or external Gargrad, preferably at least by the core temperature.

3. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that

as a feed-dependent parameter, a caliber-dependent parameter, in particular determined by the core temperature of the food, is selected, and / or

as a fixed parameter, the time period is selected, the food to be cooked, preferably at a certain cooking space climate, in particular a specific oven temperature, for

Reaching a certain cooking result, in particular a certain core temperature, must be cooked.

4. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that

to guide a cooking process and / or to save a cooking program the cooking appliance must be unlocked by an access check. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the charge is input via an input device or detected by a sensor device, and / or

the food is input via an input device or detected by a sensor device.

Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, preferably without access checking, first selected a food and then automatically runs a cooking program provided either after input of the feed or after detection of the feed function of the respective fixed parameter.

Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that cooking programs are provided for at least two different items to be cooked at least once for each mixing load of the cooking chamber of the cooking appliance with the two items a cooking process depending on at least one feed-dependent parameter is led to a specific cooking result For both cooking supplies, the leading cooking process is selected for each blending batch and for each selected one

Cooking process after replacement of the feed-dependent parameter by a fixed parameter a cooking program is stored.

Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guiding of a cooking process in a first cooking appliance and the running of a

Cooking program takes place in a second cooking appliance, wherein preferably the first cooking appliance with the second cooking appliance, at least temporarily, is connectable, especially in a kitchen network.

Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cooking programs in a storage device of a cooking appliance, in particular the first and / or second cooking appliance, a portable storage device or a

Storage device to be stored in a personal computer.