Vita Craft RFIQ cookware uses RFID to control temps

We'll forgive Vita Craft for calling their RFIQ cookware "robotic." After all, it doesn't exactly do the dicing, slicing and cooking for you. Nevertheless, it's a pretty unique product: Each pan's handle contains and RFID chip that communicates with recipe cards which, in turn, regulate Vita Craft's induction cooktop's temperature throughout a dish's cooking cycle to avoid burned or undercooked meals. Of course you've got to handle the rest of the preparation yourself, which leds us to wonder: Any chance Vita Craft has an RFID recipe card for leftover pizza?

[Via RFID in Japan]

[Rocket Punch @ Jan 13th 2006 1:53PM]

WHAT!?!? no WIFI and built in MP3 player?? I'll pass..

[MEP @ Jan 13th 2006 1:54PM]

What an absolutely terrible idea. The application of heat during the cooking process is one thing that simply can not be automated based on some silly recipe timer, because it's never exactly the same. There are too many variables to account for if you really want your food to taste right. This is clearly aimed at people who have no idea how to cook and therefore have no idea how completely nonfunctional this will really be.



Cooking is an example of a task that's easier for a human to do than it is for a machine, and therefore begs the question "Why?"

[GeeksAreSexy @ Jan 13th 2006 2:11PM]

Yeah, I'll also pass, there's no flip-flop LCD screen over there displaying your recipees. ;)

[Joe Davenport @ Jan 13th 2006 2:13PM]

actually it is a great energy saving idea. Most people waste a lot of energy when cooking because they don't realize that once it's boiling the temp remains the same at all heat settings above the minimum boiling setting.

[DRG @ Jan 13th 2006 2:38PM]

Why not wave the recipe card over the cook element and cut our the middle-man? If you're grabbing the frying pan for spaghetti you're one to eat out anyway, or an Iron Chef.

[Don @ Jan 13th 2006 2:59PM]

MEP: Amen! There's no way that just controlling the temp automatically is going to help anyone cook. You've got to pay attention to the food.



Stupid idea designed to get money from people who can't cook and have too much cash.

[Marc @ Jan 14th 2006 2:47PM]

You'd better spend your money on a good recipe book ;-)



As a proof-of-concept it's alright, but I don't see how

this machine is going to win the hearts of housewives and -men...