Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of cooking methods, when this cooking methods uses on automatic or semi-automatic cooking equipment, culinary art can be carried out with computer program to two or more dish to control simultaneously, or help cooking operation person can carry out culinary art control to two or more dish without the need to specialty cuisine technical ability by computer program.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of cooking accessories, it can receive and export cooking information.
In order to achieve the above object, the technical solution adopted in the present invention is:
The cooking methods completed in automatic or semi-automatic cooking equipment, this cooking equipment comprises arithmetic processor, memory and man-machine interface, heating system, two or more cooking containers or heating location, and the method comprises the steps:
(1) culinary art material placed or be invested in certain cooking container or heating location place;
(2) arithmetic processor is made to obtain the culinary art kind information of this culinary art material by man-machine interface;
(3) make arithmetic processor obtain the positional information of step (1) described culinary art material, this positional information with residing for this culinary art material be about to the cooking container that is in or heating location corresponding;
(4) the culinary art kind information of the arithmetic processor described according to step (2), calls corresponding cooking process from described memory;
(5) positional information of the arithmetic processor described according to step (3), judges that the culinary art material of this culinary art kind is residing or is about to the cooking container that is in or heating location;
(6) cooking process that the arithmetic processor operating procedure (4) described in recalls, culinary art control is carried out to the culinary art material at the cooking container be arranged in or be about to be positioned at described in step (5) or heating location place, or according to culinary art process, send cooking operation prompting when needs operator carries out cooking operation.
Each step of above-mentioned cooking methods can perform repeatedly, such as, placed by other culinary art material or be invested in idle cooking container or heating location place, and performing above-mentioned steps (2) to (6), carrying out culinary art process to other culinary art material.The step of above-mentioned cooking methods not necessarily performs in order, and the situation of exchanging occurs for the execution sequence of such as described step (1) and step (2): first feed intake and input kind information again, or first inputs kind information and feed intake and all may occur.It is also common situation that described step (3) is performed prior to step (1) or step (2).
Described culinary art material can be that culinary art major ingredient, auxiliary material, heat transfer medium are as oil/soup/water, condiment, Gorgon euryale material etc.
Described heating location, refer to that difference in cooking equipment/container is by heating region, or by the diverse location in heating region or subregion, comprise the cooking equipment not having cooking container, such as roasting equipment is by the diverse location in heating region and subregion etc.
Cooking methods of the present invention, the mode of information is provided to have to arithmetic processor multiple, can be provided by operator, such as, culinary art material package is provided with the information carriers such as bar code, and arithmetic processor obtains the culinary art kind relevant information of culinary art material by data fetch device or scanning means; Or, provide culinary art kind and positional information by input unit, man-machine interface, artificial input or alternate manner to arithmetic processor.Also can be provided by cooking equipment itself, a kind of conventional mode is that arithmetic processor is obtained for information about by the sensor in cooking equipment, the positional information of especially described culinary art material, such as when cooking material and being thrown in/be positioned over cooking container/heating location place, be arranged at the weight sensor perception weight change at this cooking container/heating location place and send signal to arithmetic processor.The another kind of usual way of information is provided to be that arithmetic processor passes through to run cooking process acquisition relevant information by cooking equipment itself, the positional information of especially described culinary art material, and it is used, such as, after program performs and to be taken the dish out of the pot by the culinary art material of certain cooking container/heating location or shift out step, arithmetic processor knows that this cooking container/heating location is idle, namely free message is obtained, afterwards, arithmetic processor chooses a cooking container/heating location as next culinary art material according to free message from the cooking container/heating location of free time, and obtain the positional information of this culinary art material thus.
Described man-machine interface comprises suggestion device, and this suggestion device can be the device of sound, optical, electrical, mechanical, voice, word, image, color or other type.This suggestion device sends cooking status prompting and/or cooking operation prompting according to the instruction of arithmetic processor to operator.
Above-mentioned cooking methods is also included under arithmetic processor controls points out cooking container/heating location to be in the step of using state or idle condition by suggestion device such as man-machine interface to operator.
Except the kind/positional information of this culinary art material is supplied to except arithmetic processor, other relevant information of culinary art material can also be supplied to arithmetic processor, such as about material type, preparation characteristic, preparation time, freshness date etc. cause cooking operation and the duration and degree of heating to control the information of differentiating factor, and material state information such as temperature of charge etc.
Above-mentioned cooking methods is also included in cooking process, controls by described arithmetic processor the step that the cooking status of relevant apparatus to the culinary art material being in diverse location does corresponding prompting.Such as in cooking process, cook process, cooking status with form prompting operators such as sound, light, color, word, voice and/or images.In the step (6) of above-mentioned cooking methods, arithmetic processor sends cooking operation prompting to operator in cooking process, also control relevant apparatus by arithmetic processor to carry out, such as when needs operator feed intake, ON/OFF fire, adjustment heating intensity, turning over materials, by material turn-over, material shifted out or carries out other cooking operation time, operate with form prompting operators such as sound, light, color, word, voice and/or images.In addition, when the culinary art material of certain cooking container/heating location has been cooked, arithmetic processor can control relevant apparatus and make prompting, such as, by indicator lamp, buzzer etc., or show over the display and cooks completed word, image or with voice message.
In step (6), described arithmetic processor controls the control of the cooking time of the culinary art material comprised in each cooking container or heating location place to the culinary art that culinary art material carries out.Arithmetic processor also can carry out timing to the cooking time of each culinary art material, and according to cooking process, sends operation indicating at the timing node needing operator to carry out cooking operation to operator.The above-mentioned control to cooking time and to operator send operation indicating can respectively/grouping carry out, also can carry out together whole cooking container/heating location.
In step (6), the arithmetic processor of cooking equipment, by controlling heating system, heats the culinary art material in each cooking container or heating location place.
The mode of heating of above-mentioned heating system to culinary art material has multiple, such as, it can heat for all cooking material, also can divide into groups to heat the culinary art material in cooking container or heating location place, in addition, can also namely heat the culinary art material in each cooking container or heating location place respectively separately.When heating, a heating source can be utilized to heat two or more cooking container/heating location, also can have two or more heating source, make each or often organize the heating source that cooking container/heating location has oneself.
In addition, in cooking methods of the present invention, also comprise the step that the heating such as start/end and/or heating intensity of heating system are controlled.The control of heating intensity sends control instruction according to cooking process to the heating intensity adjusting device in cooking equipment by arithmetic processor, and heating intensity adjusting device realizes according to instruction unpack/cut-out thermal source or adjustment/selection heating intensity.More than one heating intensity adjusting device or more than one heating source can be provided with in described cooking equipment, make described arithmetic processor can respectively/divide into groups to control the heating intensity of the culinary art material in each cooking container or heating location place.
If also include other cooking operation device such as charging device, cooking pot moving device etc. in described cooking equipment, above-mentioned cooking methods also comprises the step that the cooking operation of arithmetic processor to these devices controls.These control and operation can for cooking container/heating location respectively/grouping carry out, also can carry out together whole cooking container/heating location.
The material that above-mentioned cooking methods also comprises when certain position has been cooked, and arithmetic processor controls relevant apparatus to be terminated this culinary art heating material or suspends this group/whole step of cooking heating material.The mode terminating/suspend heating can be cut off/move apart/closedown thermal source, or makes culinary art material/cooking container leave heating location etc.
Above-mentioned cooking methods also comprises by manually further, or arithmetic processor controls moving-out device the culinary art material completing culinary art is shifted out heating location or cooking container, or cooking container is moved apart the step of thermal source.After culinary art material or cooking container are shifted out, notice arithmetic processor.Such as by sensor, the information shifted out by material sends arithmetic processor to, also by input unit, man-machine interface etc., and the information input arithmetic processor that culinary art material is shifted out, or information will be shifted out by alternate manner and send arithmetic processor to.After the notified information of arithmetic processor, the cooking status of this position is recorded as the free time.
Described cooking equipment also comprises the sensor of the cooking status parameter at difference/grouping mea-sure each cooking container/heating location place, the data of described arithmetic processor measured by described cooking process and sensor, respectively/grouping Dynamic controlling cooking process.
Cooking methods of the present invention, above-mentioned arithmetic processor, memory and man-machine interface can exist independent of cooking equipment, and described arithmetic processor does not control cooking equipment, only carry out information interaction with operator.
Cooking methods of the present invention is applied in steaming usually, boil, explode, bake, the cooking equipment such as to decoct, in the cooking equipment that also can be used in the stir-fry with more than one culinary art position or other cooking equipments.
A kind of culinary art servicing unit for cooking equipment, it includes memory, arithmetic processor, information interface, cooking process is stored in described memory, it is characterized in that: described information interface comprises culinary art material kind information interface/interface and culinary art material positional information interface/interface, be respectively used to receive culinary art material kind information and culinary art material positional information, and by received information transmission to arithmetic processor, described arithmetic processor calls according to culinary art material kind information the cooking process stored in described memory, and culinary art control instruction and/or cooking prompting instruction is sent in the cooking process of the culinary art material of the heating location of described culinary art material positional information sensing.
Described culinary art servicing unit its also include the communication interface and/or control interface that are connected with described cooking equipment further, and carry out information interaction by communication interface and cooking equipment, by control interface, culinary art carried out to cooking equipment and control.Above-mentioned interface can be wireline interface, also can be wireless.
The control interface of described culinary art servicing unit comprises the computer heating control interface be connected with the heater of described cooking equipment, described culinary art servicing unit is controlled by this computer heating control interface heating to described cooking equipment, especially respectively/divide into groups to control the heating of the culinary art material being in different cooking container/heating location and/or heating intensity.
The control interface of described culinary art servicing unit can also comprise the control interface be connected with other device of described cooking equipment such as charging device, turning device, cooking container telecontrol equipment etc., and described culinary art servicing unit controls the culinary art running of cooking equipment by this control interface.
Described culinary art servicing unit, is characterized in that: it also includes and the sensor interface measured the sensor of cooking status parameter with measuring position information etc. in cooking equipment and be connected further.
Described culinary art servicing unit also includes prompt system further, the hint instructions that this prompt system sends according to described arithmetic processor, respectively/divide into groups to point out the cooking status of the culinary art material being in different cooking container/heating location in described cooking equipment, and/or cooking operation prompting is sent to the operator of cooking equipment.
Described culinary art servicing unit can be independently device, also can be the device be connected to each other by interface and cooking equipment.This culinary art servicing unit can also integrate mutually with the control system of cooking equipment or cooking equipment.
Adopt above-mentioned cooking methods and device, identical or not identical computer program can be used simultaneously automatically to control or point out the cooking process of operator controls the cooking process of two or more dish, two or more different cultivars/culinary art requires the cooking process of different dish and two or more culinary art start/end time is different dish.Compared with prior art, method of the present invention, the user of cooking equipment not only can be made without the need to having specialty cuisine technical ability, also the cooking process memoriter controlling multiple dish is no longer needed, reduce chance of makeing mistakes, and the versatility under cooking equipment can be made to be provided with computer program control, not only the cooking process of the multiple dish in same cooking equipment is accurately controlled by computer program respectively or is accurately controlled by artificial under the help of computer program, provides the diversity of dish kind but also can ensure the product quality of each dish.
Connection with figures is described in detail to the specific embodiment of the present invention below, but, although depict the present invention by embodiment, those of ordinary skill in the art know, the present invention has many distortion and change and does not depart from spirit of the present invention, and this detailed description of the invention does not limit scope of the present invention with this.
Detailed description of the invention
In order to make object of the present invention, technical scheme and advantage clearly understand, below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, the present invention is further elaborated.Should be appreciated that specific embodiment described herein only in order to explain the present invention, be not intended to limit the present invention.
Figure 1 shows that the cooking equipment realizing cooking methods embodiment one of the present invention.
This cooking equipment comprises cooking container 1, arithmetic processor 2, memory, heating system 3 and man-machine interface 4, wherein:
This cooking container 1 includes four heating locations 11,12,13,14, and heat transfer medium can be water, oil, metal etc.
Arithmetic processor 2 is connected with memory (not shown) and man-machine interface 4; Man-machine interface 4 receives the information of coming, and sends to arithmetic processor 2, stores the program needed for culinary art in memory.
Heating system 3, it is controlled by arithmetic processor 2; It is arranged on the below of cooking container 1, and it can be steam-heating system, also can be electromagnetic heating system, gas heating system or other heating system, and in the present embodiment, heating system 3 is electromagnetic heating system, and it is controlled by arithmetic processor 2; It is arranged on the below of cooking container 1.
Shown in Fig. 2, the schematic diagram of its man-machine interface adopted for this patent cooking methods and culinary art servicing unit;
Its interface, left side is position and status information interface, 41,42,43,44 schematic diagrames corresponding to four heating locations 11,12,13,14 being depicted as cooking container 1, it can show kind and cooking status that four heating locations 11,12,13,14 are cooking, if material is not cooked in this position, be then shown as idle condition; On the right of it, interface 45 is kind information interface, the dish kind that this cooking equipment can be cooked can be shown, select for operator, this kind information interface can also comprise the human-computer interaction device for input material kind information such as barcode scanner, touch-screen, keyboard.In the below of man-machine interface 4, be also provided with ACK button 46, operator presses this button after completing cooking operation according to prompting, and this operation of notice arithmetic processor 2 completes.
Cooking methods of the present invention, for the cooking equipment shown in Fig. 1, illustrates the implementation procedure of cooking methods of the present invention.
The invention discloses a kind of cooking methods completed in automatic or semi-automatic cooking equipment, coordinate shown in Fig. 1, this cooking container 1 is provided with the different heating locations 11,12,13,14 for placing culinary art material, this heating system 3 can heat respectively to the culinary art material of the different heating position being arranged in above-mentioned cooking container 1, and the method comprises the steps:
First, perform step (1), by viewing location and status information interface, find out idle heating location, such as position 42 shows the free time, represents that heating location 12 is idle, then culinary art material is positioned over heating location 12 place.
Because cooking container 1 has four heating locations, therefore, to place as required, such as there is the culinary art material that four kinds different, then can be put into respectively in four heating locations, or same culinary art material, put on the different heating position 11,12,13,14 of described cooking container in the different time, arithmetic processor 2 controls the cooking process of these materials respectively.
Then perform step (2), select or input the culinary art kind information of certain culinary art material by man-machine interface 4.Such as such as, by recording the kind information of put into culinary art material to input coding in man-machine interface 4, fried chicken wing, or can selecting in dish-cooking kind of listing in man-machine interface 4.
Then step (3) is performed, by man-machine interface 4, step (1) is provided to cook the positional information of material to arithmetic processor 2, namely cooking material is be placed in which heating location of cooking container 1, corresponding with heating location 12 42,42 are selected to transfer display cooking status at position and status information interface by touch-screen.
Perform step (4), the culinary art kind information that arithmetic processor 2 provides according to step (2), from described memory, call corresponding fried chicken wing cooking process.
The material of different cultivars information, with when cooking, its duration and degree of heating is also different, and namely cooking process is also different, all different in the power and time length grasping firepower.
The different cooking process of these different cultivars information, all stores in memory, when arithmetic processor 2 learns the kind information of the material that will cook, can, according to these kind information, go to call corresponding cooking process in memory.
Step (5), arithmetic processor 2, according to the positional information of step (3), judges that the culinary art material of this kind is positioned at heating location 12.
Step (6), the fried chicken wing cooking process that arithmetic processor 2 operating procedure (4) recalls, carries out culinary art to the culinary art material being positioned at heating location 12 place and controls.
During enforcement, if culinary art material is four kinds of different materials, be placed in four heating locations 11,12,13,14 of cooking container 1 respectively, in the culinary art performing step (6) controls, arithmetic processor 2 runs different cooking process respectively, control heating system 3, respectively the culinary art material in the heating location of four in cooking container 1 11,12,13,14 is heated and other culinary art control.Another situation is that culinary art kind is identical, but the time that material is put into is different, and arithmetic processor 2 successively runs identical cooking process, carries out culinary art control the material being in different heating position.
Step (7), is controlled by arithmetic processor 2, does corresponding prompting to the cooking status of culinary art material or the using state of cooking container or heating location being in diverse location;
In addition, during enforcement, human-computer exchange interface 4 can also be controlled by arithmetic processor 2, the using state of cooking container or heating location is pointed out, which kind of using state the prompting each cooking container of operator or heating location are in, such as just multiple fried at the temperature of 180 DEG C, or idle condition.
Step (8), the fried chicken wing when position 12 has been cooked, controls heating system 3 by arithmetic processor 2, terminates the heating of the culinary art material to this position.
Step (9), if there is material moving-out device in cooking equipment, then arithmetic processor 2 controls the heating location that the culinary art material completing culinary art is shifted out cooking container by this device, then this position is recorded as the free time, and transfers the display of 42 to the free time.
If do not have material moving-out device in cooking equipment, then arithmetic processor 2 sends prompting by man-machine interface, is shifted out by this culinary art material by operator, then, notifies arithmetic processor 2 by the ACK button 46 of man-machine interface 4.Position 12 is recorded as the free time, and transfers the display of 42 to the free time after receiving the announcement information that shifted out of culinary art material by arithmetic processor 2.Like this, there is the material needing culinary art next time, just can be put into again in heating location 12.
Embodiment two:
Fig. 3 is another cooking equipment, and this cooking equipment also comprises cooking container 1, arithmetic processor 2, memory, heating system 3 and man-machine interface 4, and difference is:
This cooking equipment is the cooking equipment for steaming, cooking container 1 is positioned at the top of whole cooking equipment, be provided with three heating chambers 11,12,13 in its this cooking container 1, in each heating chamber, be provided with heating location, heating chamber 11,12,13 is respectively equipped with sliding door 111,121,131.Sliding door 111,121,131 is respectively equipped with handle 112,122,132.In the left side of cooking equipment, corresponding heating chamber 11,12,13 is respectively equipped with indicator lamp 113,123,133.Tread plate is respectively equipped with in heating chamber 11,12,13.As the tread plate 134 of heating chamber 13, it can prevent culinary art material from sliding in cooking container 1, is convenient to location.
Arithmetic processor 2 is connected with memory (not shown) and man-machine interface 4, and top on the right side of cooking equipment is located in man-machine interface 4, and it receives the information of coming, and sends to arithmetic processor 2, stores the program needed for culinary art in memory.
Heating system 3 is steam-type heating system, and it is controlled by arithmetic processor 2; It is arranged on the below of cooking container 1.The steam Transportation that steam-heating system 3 is produced by steam Transportation passage 31 is in heating chamber 11,12,13.
Steam Transportation passage 31 is provided with flow valve 32, and this flow valve 32, can by its flow feedback to arithmetic processor 2 with reponse system.
When implementing cooking methods of the present invention, be with the difference of the cooking equipment shown in Fig. 1:
In step (6), passage 31 is provided with flow valve 32, and arithmetic processor 2 by controlling flow valve 32, thus controls steam flow size, and realizes the automatic control to steam intensity.
Arithmetic processor 2, by controlling flow valve 32, obtains the duration and degree of heating that material needs, and when steaming culinary art and completing, is zero by flow-control, namely terminates culinary art.
Embodiment three:
Compared with embodiment one, in step (2), man-machine interface 4 place is also provided with data fetch device, and it provides and/or input kind and the positional information of culinary art material by data fetch device, then by this information, be transferred to arithmetic processor 2.
Embodiment four:
Compared with embodiment one, in step (2), inputted about cooking the kind of material and positional information by operator.
When being oneself ready material, before steamer 5 loads steam cooking container 1, directly inputted in man-machine interface 4 about culinary art material and the data relevant to cooking process itself by operator, and inputting other data as required, the data information transfer then operator inputted by man-machine interface 4 is to arithmetic processor 2.
Embodiment five:
Compared with embodiment one, difference part is, in step (2), except inputted the kind information about cooking material by man-machine interface 4 except, interactive interface 4 can also be connect by people and record the coding of culinary art material in steamer 5 and data etc., comprise about material type, preparation characteristic, preparation time, freshness date, material deal etc. cause cooking operation and the duration and degree of heating to control the information of differentiating factor, and material state information such as temperature of charge etc.
Embodiment six:
Compared with embodiment one, difference part is, it utilizes cooking prompting device, coordinates shown in Fig. 4, this cooking prompting device comprises: it includes memory 61, arithmetic processor 62, man-machine interface 63 and prompt system 64, stores cooking process in above-mentioned memory 61; Above-mentioned man-machine interface 63 receives cooking information input, and by inputted information transmission to arithmetic processor 62, above-mentioned arithmetic processor 62 calls the cooking process stored in above-mentioned memory, engage the information that above-mentioned man-machine interface 63 receives, after process, be transferred to above-mentioned prompt system 64; Above-mentioned prompt system 64 according to culinary art process, can send cooking operation prompting when needs operator carries out cooking operation.
In step (6), the cooking process that arithmetic processor 62 operating procedure (4) recalls, and according to culinary art process, send cooking operation prompting when needs operator carries out cooking operation by prompt system 64.
Arithmetic processor 62 runs cooking process, and when needs operator gets involved, points out, and operator can operate according to the prompting of cooking equipment.
Embodiment seven:
See Fig. 5, Fig. 6 and Fig. 7, as the another embodiment of cooking equipment of the present invention.This cooking device comprises cooking container 1, cooking assist device and heating system (not shown), wherein:
This cooking container 1 includes three heating locations 11,12,13, and heat transfer medium can be water, oil, metal etc.Heating location 11,12,13 can be respectively equipped with material frame 15, and the side of material frame 15 is provided with brace 151, and brace 151 is connected with the drive rod 71 of driving mechanism 7; The drive rod 71 of driving mechanism 7 can drive material frame 15 to move up and down.Certainly, the simpler mode of one also can be adopted, as installed spring at drive rod 71, material frame 15 is in raised configuration time idle, after material is put into, staff presses material frame 15, presses to be locked by a locking device afterwards, when cooking is complete, staff is pressed again, and unlock (also can unlock under the control of arithmetic processor 21), under the action of the spring, drive rod 71 moves, and material frame 15 rises.
Cooking device is also provided with sensing system (not shown), this sensing system is located at the side of heating location 11, when material frame 14 moves downward under the drive of driving mechanism 7, when moving to bottom, brace 151 contacts with sensing system, sensor sends signal to arithmetic processor 2, makes it learn to drop to the positional information of the material frame 14 of heating location.When material frame 14 rises, sensor 4 sends signal to arithmetic processor 2, and notice arithmetic processor 2 material moves apart.
The foregoing is only preferred embodiment of the present invention, not in order to limit the present invention, all any amendments done within the spirit and principles in the present invention, equivalent replacement and improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.