Inventor patents automatic, no-look cooking

In a patent filing that appears to belong to Philips, an inventor is attempting to lock down the secret to no-look cooking, giving hope to clueless culinarians everywhere. The patent focuses on a method for determining the very moment during the cooking process in which the food "has reached a ready state," and seeks to use precise scales in an oven to determine exactly how much water has left the foodstuff and converted into steam in order to determine just how dry, crisp, and / or ready to devour it is. Of course, this fellow isn't the first bloke to iron out the details of automatic cooking, and interestingly enough, it seems this idea itself may have already been in the works, so we'd highly recommend consulting the folks behind Daewoo's autonomous microwave (and the subsequent technology) before boasting too proudly.

[Via NewScientistTech]

[Fuzz @ Jan 16th 2007 3:20PM]

My Panasonic microwave does this on the "sensor reheat" function. Works really well.

[Brian @ Jan 16th 2007 3:53PM]

How he'll keep those scales calibrated, given the extreme temperature fluctuations that occur in an oven, will be interesting to see

[Vince Johnson @ Jan 16th 2007 7:27PM]

I think that ancient Chinese covered this one with Sushi...

[LordFarkward @ Jan 16th 2007 8:57PM]

the chinese has 'invented' sushi as much as the taiwanese companies have 'designed' the ipod-looking-mp3-players.

how i love it when this happens
gwai lo: "so where're u from"
me: "oh i'm from hong kong"
gwai lo: "ohhh so u speak japanese?"

[Derk @ Jan 16th 2007 7:36PM]

Bork! Bork! Bork!

[Pete @ Jan 17th 2007 1:18AM]

Terrible. I'm sure because of safety sake it will allow everything to be completely overcooked. Medium rare should not be grey and flavorless.

[blore40 @ Jan 17th 2007 11:25AM]

Note to self....Patent no-look eating.