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Get the recipe from the web, bluetooth the instructions to the mechanism in the handle. This basically turns a pan or pot into a chef giving you instructions over your shoulder. It's got a scale, measured temperature and timer, keeps track of the ingredients and tells you when to stir, add, simmer ingredients
as the downloaded recipe directs you in real time, even including warnings like "Hey, turn it down, you're gonna scorch the mushrooms"
Click on the recipe page, bluetooth it to the scale and add the ingredients as prompted. "Chicken, 2 pounds..." when you put the right amount in it says: Stop, stir for 5 minutes" then "Stop. Add next ingredient..." and weighs it until it says "STOP. Now turn down temp to 200 and simmer for 15 minutes. I'll call you if it gets too hot." The weight function will also tell you when the simmering has reduced the water amount and thickened the sauce to the appropriate consistency.
It would also feature timing and instructions. "Stir till timer says done". Then 5 minutes later at 350 degrees, it says "Now add mushrooms..." Those scolling periods are integral to the idea, they keep strobing till the correct weight of the ingredient as been added, then it says "STOP" and gives the next instruction with a running timer. "Stir..." then "STOP" after the appropiate cooking time.
And of course, you can turn on "Voice Prompt" if you want.
MagicPan, by Remulac Industries, I would totally be on the informercial yelling at the camera. The logo would be a smiling pan wearing a chef's hat doing the "delicioso" thing with its anthropormophic hands.
Adding a calibration setting, first time you use it you put in on a burner, tell it if it's gas or electric, which burner it is and turn the heat to 1:00, then after a few minutes click the calibration button, it'll know that 1:00 is 120 degrees. Then it'll say "Turn to 3:00" and register that. You can then put stickers around your dial that indicate what the temp is or just have the MagicPan refer to the temps in clockspeak. "Turn right rront burner to 6 oclock." for instance.
Inspired by sanman's cool idea that I guess has been done.
Induction_20Cooktop..._20Weighing_20Scale
[doctorremulac3, Jan 23 2024]
The trademark
https://images.app....l/eBaJHRpqtaHA9Qdz7
Start with something like this but make it a pan with a handle on it [doctorremulac3, Jan 23 2024]
Only the kissing the thumb and finger thing
https://www.dreamst...-hand-image57767313
But the hat's on point [doctorremulac3, Jan 23 2024]
Like this
https://www.alamy.c...tml?sortBy=relevant
Okay, I want one. [doctorremulac3, Jan 23 2024]
Slow_20food_20vending_20machine
public version [pocmloc, Jan 23 2024]
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Needs integration with a tablet or phone for prep instructions. This could also offer multiple modes by cooking level. For example a completely new cook may need to break all eggs into a separate bowl to take out any bits of shell or may need an instructional video on knife types, handling, and safety. An experienced chef can just get the base instructions and ingredient list, and can understand more specialized words like souffle, roux, and Yanagiba knife. An experienced chef may have more specialized ingredients and a spice scale too, which changes how the instructions can be presented.
This pot could adjust cook times and temperatures based on how much of an ingredient has been added. |
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Exactly! The thing I got excited about was cooking a sauce it can tell you when it gets to the right consistancy by taking the weight of the liquid before you simmer it for a half hour and when that weight is cut in half by reduction or whatever, it's done. Could even specify thicker, thinner etc. |
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I think this could really work, again, I wouldn't only buy one, I'd be hella excited about it. |
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I’m think what I want to do is patent it, make the commercial and then take it to angel investors. I don’t think that’s ever been fine before. |
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Magic Chef Pan 39.95, but act now and you get the Magic Chef Pot for only 29.85! |
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The problem is, who is the target audience? |
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People who can already cook, will hate it - the same way gamers hate annoying guides in puzzle/adventure games, or shoppers hate having to deal with a self-service checkout which won't accept that you've put an item on the scales. |
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People who can't cook but want to learn, won't see it as useful - it doesn't really teach you how to cook, it just turns you into an instruction-following golem who still can't really cook. |
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People who can't cook and don't want to, don't need or want it. |
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//it doesn't really teach you how to cook// |
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Yes it does, you make something two or three times on this you'll remember the steps. |
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All it is is a talking cookbook that does all the measurement stuff for you. |
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//All it is is a talking cookbook that does all the measurement stuff for you.// |
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Actually, from your description I had the impression that besides doing all the measurement (in a manner which probably wouldn't transfer), it also continuously monitored the progress: temperatures, timings, consistencies etc. |
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Maybe /you'd/ remember the steps, but I'm pretty confident that for most people it would be such a crutch that they'd not be able to re-cook a meal without it. Maybe if you used it like 20 or 30 times for one recipe only, you'd get by. Assuming you didn't irretrievably scorch your mushrooms because no-one told you to stop. |
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//Actually, from your description I had the impression that besides doing all the measurement (in a manner which probably wouldn't transfer), it also continuously monitored the progress: temperatures, timings, consistencies etc// |
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Progress, temperatures, timings and consistencies are measured by measurements. |
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What does "probably wouldn't transfer" mean? |
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//Progress, temperatures, timings and consistencies are measured by measurements.// |
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Well okay, but when you've taken all that, plus the weighing out (which I what I assumed you were referring to) out of the cooking, all you've got left is putting stuff in when you're told until the pot says go again. |
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//What does "probably wouldn't transfer" mean?// |
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I mean a user wouldn't be able to transfer the ability to dump stuff in the pot to weighing out stuff on a set of scales.
That is, I doubt that in practice it would be a transferrable skill. |
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Also, incidentally, scales tend to be less accurate in absolute terms the larger the amount of stuff they can measure. So you probably won't be able to reliably pick up adding, say, a teaspoon of stuff to an already full pot. |
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//I mean a user wouldn't be able to transfer the ability to dump stuff in the pot to weighing out stuff on a set of scales.
That is, I doubt that in practice it would be a transferrable skill.// |
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It's basically a robot pan that helps you cook, don't know what to tell you. If you're anti robot pans, okay. |
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Already addressed the adding salt, spices that woudn't be measureable. |
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The active countertop that weighs and organizes, combined with the Mise en Anyplace device, will allow you to continue to use your current major investments in pots and pans, cooking surfaces, and existing functions in the kitchen. |
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Do you need a robot stockpot for stews? And each fry pan size: 8.5, 10, and 12?” 1, 3, and 5 quart sauce pans? |
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So each pot or pan has all the functions reproduced? At the current market prices I think each item will come in somewhere around the cost of an iPhone 15, considering that the tech for the weighing and monitoring has to withstand 700° and be dishwasher safe. |
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Not a bad idea, just overtaken by market constraints and practical considerations of efficiency, redundancy, and technical complexity. Otherwise, terrific. |
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