The present application provides a system for use in a connected kitchen allowing a user to find and use traditional recipes as would be found in a recipe book but to have them automatically customized to their language, locality, dietary preferences and the appliances in their kitchen.

An outdoor grill has a processor and remote-controlled valves (electronic or digital) whereby the processor directs gas flow to at least one burner below a grate. Sensors can be utilized to maintain temperature at the grate. A meat probe can be used to provide input to the processor to reduce temperature upon reaching a predetermined value. The processor may wirelessly communicate with a portable computing device for remote control or monitoring of status.

A battery-operated wireless control system for outdoor cooking and heating appliances is disclosed. The system may include an electronic controller paired to a wireless temperature probe and a wireless monitor device capable of storing and recharging the wireless temperature probe. The electronic controller may control the operation of a fuel supply assembly, a fan assembly, and a spark generating assembly included in the appliance.

The present disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence (AI) system for simulating functions, such as recognition and determination, of the human brain by using a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning, and an application thereof. Provided are an automatic cooking device and method for selectively emitting light of different wavelength bands to a food material, identifying the food material by obtaining information about the food material, based on reflected light, and controlling a cooking process of the food material.

Pellet grills including a control system that implements, manages, and/or controls various ignition-based protocols and/or processes are disclosed. An example pellet grill includes a cooking chamber, a burn pot, an ignitor, and a controller. The ignitor extends into the burn pot and is configured to ignite pellet fuel located within the burn pot. The controller is configured to command the ignitor to activate during a first duration. The controller is further configured to determine, following expiration of the first duration, whether a temperature of the cooking chamber has reached a threshold temperature. The controller is further configured, in response to determining that the temperature has not reached the threshold temperature, to command the ignitor to activate during a second duration.

An actively heated or cooled cup or mug has a body with a chamber that can receive and hold a beverage and a heating or cooling system disposed in a cavity below the chamber. The heating or cooling system has a heating or cooling element to actively heat or cool the chamber, power storage devices, and circuitry that controls the operation of the heating or cooling elements. A sensor can detect a presence of a liquid in the chamber, the circuitry configured to turn on power to the heating or cooling elements after said liquid is detected and further configured to automatically turn off power to the heating or cooling elements upon receiving a signal indicating that the liquid in the chamber has dropped below a predetermined liquid level or been depleted completely.

A control of an intelligent cooking device is disclosed. A method of controlling an intelligent cooking device comprises obtaining sensing information related to a cooking state of contents positioned inside a heating target during performing a first control operation, checking the cooking state of the contents based on the sensing information, and generating, based on the cooking state and a usage history, control information on a second control operation to be performed after an end of the first control operation. An AI cooking device and an external terminal can be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like.

A method may include receiving a menu set selection including a plurality of predetermined dish options at a registered user device and transmitting the menu set selection to an unregistered user device. The method may further include receiving a recipe selection of one or more of the plurality of predetermined dish options from the unregistered user device and directing a cooking operation at the cooking appliance based on the received recipe selection.

Embodiments are directed to communicating with and controlling operation of electronically-controlled appliances. In one scenario, a computer system receives a first input from a computing system indicating that an electronically-controlled appliance is permitted to communicate with a cloud computing platform. The computer system generates a notification that is to be sent to a software application, where the software application is configured to control functions of the electronically-controlled appliance. The computer system transmits the generated notification to the software application, where the generated notification indicates that the cloud computing platform is communicably connected to the electronically-controlled appliance. The computer system then receives a second input from the software application indicating that specified functions are to be performed on the electronically-controlled appliance, and transmits instructions to the electronically-controlled appliance to perform the specified functions. These functions are then interpreted and carried out by a hardware controller on the electronically-controlled appliance.

The present disclosure relates to a system for the preparation of a food. The system comprises a monitoring device for monitoring the food during its preparation, a control device for the preparation of the food by means of a kitchen appliance and by means of an electronically stored recipe, and a mobile and/or non-mobile device. The monitoring device is able to communicate with the control device and the mobile and/or non-mobile device. The mobile and/or non-mobile device is configured such that it can transmit information of the monitoring device to a user. In particular, the control device is configured such that it recognizes possible absence times for a user during the controlled preparation of a food and informs the user thereof. The invention further relates to a food thermometer and a method.