A cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking compartment, which is surrounded by a bottom surface, a pair of side surfaces, and a back surface of the housing, and has an upper surface and a front surface which are open. A door includes a door upper surface part which covers the upper surface of the housing and a door front surface part which is connected to a front side of the door upper surface part and covers the front surface of the housing and opens and closes the upper surface and the front surface of the housing by rotating about a rear side of the door upper surface part. A heating part is installed in at least one of the housing or the door.

Disclosed is an induction heating device. The disclosed induction heating device senses whether a container placed on a heating coil is off-center, and if so, the direction in which the container is off-center, on the basis of a change in the resonance current of a plurality of sensing coils disposed along the circumferential direction above the heating coil. Each of the plurality of sensing coils includes a plurality of first layer sensing coils and a plurality of second layer sensing coils. Each of the plurality of first layer sensing coils is electrically connected to a corresponding second layer sensing coil among the plurality of second layer sensing coils. The first layer sensing coil and the second layer sensing coil that are connected to each other are vertically misaligned and have opposite winding directions.

A method for operating a cooking system, the cooking system including a hob, cookware, and a mobile device, includes: transmitting a process instruction from the mobile device to the hob; receiving the process instruction from the mobile device by the hob; transmitting a confirmation request from the hob to the cookware; in response to a confirmation by a user on the cookware, transmitting a confirmation message from the cookware to the hob; and in response to the hob receiving the confirmation message from the cookware, executing the process instruction of the mobile device by the hob.

A heating cooking apparatus (100) includes a heating cooking unit, a communication unit (40), a container portion (30), and a movable member (55). The heating cooking unit heats and cooks an object to be heated. The communication unit (40) wirelessly communicates with an external device. The container portion (30) contains the communication unit (40). The movable member (55) moves between a first position and a second position. The first position indicates a position of the movable member (55) when the movable member (55) is separated from the container portion (30). The second position indicates a position of the movable member (55) when the movable member (55) is closer to the container portion (30) than in the first position.

A heating cooking apparatus (100) includes a heating cooking unit, a communication unit (40), a container portion (30), and a movable member (55). The heating cooking unit heats and cooks an object to be heated. The communication unit (40) wirelessly communicates with an external device. The container portion (30) contains the communication unit (40). The movable member (55) moves between a first position and a second position. The first position indicates a position of the movable member (55) when the movable member (55) is separated from the container portion (30). The second position indicates a position of the movable member (55) when the movable member (55) is closer to the container portion (30) than in the first position.

An artificial intelligence cooking device includes a plate including a heater configured to heat ingredients in a cooking vessel placed on the plate; a vibration sensor disposed below the plate configured to detect a vibration signal of the ingredients in the cooking vessel transmitted through the plate; and a processor configured to determine, via an artificial intelligence model having learned properties of the vibration signal, whether or not the ingredients in the cooking vessel are boiling based on the detected vibration signal provided to the artificial intelligence model and the learned properties of the vibration signal; and output information indicating whether or not the ingredients are boiling based on the determination.

A hob device, in particular induction hob device, includes a placement plate configured for placement of an item of cookware, at least two heating units for heating the item of cookware, and an illumination strip including a lighting unit and assigned in an operating state to the at least two heating units for marking the at least two heating units.

A cooking appliance includes a cooktop including an energy transmission unit for transmitting energy in order to heat a place-on appliance placed on the cooktop, and a PEF (“Pulsed Electric Fields”) cooking apparatus including a receptacle accessible from a top side of the cooktop and designed for insertion of a PEF container. The receptacle includes a connection contact for electrically connecting to the PEF container inserted in the receptacle.

A cooking assistance method executed by a computer includes: (a) causing an output device to output information of a first cooking process in which a first ingredient is cut or applied with a pressure; (b) obtaining, when the first ingredient is cut on a cooking board or applied with the pressure on the cooking board in the first cooking process, at least one of a pressure on the cooking board, a total number of cuts made to the first ingredient, and a state of the first ingredient cut; (c) changing a description of a second cooking process performed subsequently to the first cooking process, using information based on the at least one of the pressure, the total number of cuts, and the state of the first ingredient cut; and (d) causing the output device to output information of the second cooking process changed.

An induction cooking hob (1) with illumination equipment includes a cover element (2) arranged at the top side of the induction cooking hob and including at least one heating zone, a chassis (5) arranged below the cover element (2) and at least one induction coil unit (3) having an induction coil (10). The induction coil unit (3) is arranged below the at least one heating zone. According to the invention, a light emitting diode (4) is mounted to the center of the at least one induction coil unit (3). Thermal conductive contact between the light emitting diode (4) and the chassis (5) is provided by a spring element (12) pressing at least a surface of the light emitting diode (4) onto the chassis (5).