CN113017409A

CN113017409A - Cooking appliance and control method thereof

Info

Publication number: CN113017409A
Application number: CN201911351152.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黄根平
Original assignee: Zhejiang Shaoxing Supor Domestic Electrical Appliance Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Shaoxing Supor Domestic Electrical Appliance Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-24
Filing date: 2019-12-24
Publication date: 2021-06-25
Anticipated expiration: 2039-12-24
Also published as: CN113017409B

Abstract

The invention discloses a cooking appliance and a control method thereof. Wherein, the method comprises the following steps: controlling the cooking appliance to perform a cooking operation on the food material according to a first cooking parameter, wherein the first cooking parameter comprises: a cooking temperature and a first cooking time; judging whether a pot cover of the cooking appliance is switched to a cover closing state or not; under the condition that the pot cover is judged to be switched to the cover closing state, the cooking appliance is controlled to execute cooking operation on food materials according to second cooking parameters, wherein the second cooking parameters comprise: cooking pressure and a second cooking time. The invention solves the technical problems of complex and tedious operation and poor taste of stewing and cooking food materials through cooking appliances in the related art.

Description

Cooking appliance and control method thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of household appliances, in particular to a cooking appliance and a control method thereof.

Background

The conventional electric pressure cooker is convenient for users to use, generally has the pressure stewing function, and for certain food materials, the food stewed by stewing directly by pressurizing the food has poor flavor and taste. In order to improve the taste of food, the conventional treatment method is to stir the food into flavor by a frying pan and then stew the food. In addition, some foods require pre-treatment, such as blanching or slow cooking at low temperatures, prior to braising. However, if the stewed food is stewed by using a pressure cooker after being processed by other equipment, the operation is more complicated, and the user experience is not good.

Aiming at the problems of complex and tedious operation and poor taste of stewing and cooking food materials through a cooking appliance in the related art, an effective solution is not provided at present.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a cooking appliance and a control method thereof, and aims to at least solve the technical problems that in the related art, the operation of stewing and cooking food materials through the cooking appliance is complex and tedious, and the taste is poor.

According to an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a control method of a cooking appliance, including: controlling the cooking appliance to perform a cooking operation on the food material according to a first cooking parameter, wherein the first cooking parameter comprises: a cooking temperature and a first cooking time; judging whether a pot cover of the cooking appliance is switched to a cover closing state or not; under the condition that the pot cover is judged to be switched to the cover closing state, the cooking appliance is controlled to execute cooking operation on food materials according to second cooking parameters, wherein the second cooking parameters comprise: cooking pressure and a second cooking time.

In the embodiment of the invention, the cooking appliance has a frying cooking function or a preprocessing function for heating food materials according to cooking temperature and a stewing cooking function for heating food materials according to cooking pressure, and the frying cooking function or the preprocessing function of the cooking appliance is converted into the stewing cooking function by detecting the change of the pan cover of the cooking appliance from opening to closing, so that the aims of improving the taste of the cooking food cooked by the cooking appliance, simplifying operation steps and optimizing the technical effect of user experience are achieved, and the technical problems of complex and complicated operation and poor taste of stewing and cooking food materials by the cooking appliance in the related art are solved.

Further, the step of judging whether the pot cover of the cooking appliance is switched to the cover closing state includes at least one of the following steps: determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not based on a cover opening and closing signal of the cooking appliance; judging whether the top temperature of the cooking appliance reaches a preset temperature or not, and determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not based on a judgment result; determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not based on the state of the pot teeth of the cooking utensil, wherein the state of the pot teeth comprises one of the following states: a locked state and an unlocked state. The state of the pot cover is detected in various modes, the pot cover state detection method can be suitable for cooking appliances of different types, and the effect of improving the universality of the pot cover state judgment method is achieved.

Further, through the lid detection component that opens and shuts detecting the lid signal that opens and shuts, wherein, the lid detection component that opens and shuts includes one of following: reed switches, Hall devices, micro-switches and photoelectric devices. The cover opening and closing signal is detected through a device arranged in the cooking utensil, and the effect of reducing the detection cost is achieved.

Further, before determining whether the pot cover of the cooking appliance is switched to the closed state, the method further includes: acquiring the execution time of the cooking appliance, wherein the execution time is the time from the time when the bottom temperature of the cooking appliance reaches the cooking temperature to the current time; judging whether the execution time exceeds a first cooking time; and under the condition that the execution time does not exceed the first cooking time, judging whether the pot cover is switched to a closing state or not. In the process of executing frying cooking or preprocessing operation, the purpose of switching the cooking state according to the needs of a user can be realized by detecting the state of the pot cover, and the completion of the frying cooking or preprocessing operation is not required to be waited.

Further, in case the execution time exceeds the first cooking time, the method further comprises: judging whether a preset operation instruction is received or not within a preset time period; under the condition that a preset operation instruction is received within a preset time period, controlling the cooking appliance to perform cooking operation on the food material according to a second cooking parameter; and under the condition that the preset operation instruction is not received within the preset time period, controlling the cooking appliance to finish the cooking operation. After frying cooking or preprocessing is finished, the effect that only food materials are fried and cooked or preprocessed or the food materials are fried and cooked or preprocessed and then stewed and cooked is achieved by detecting whether preset operation instructions are received or not is achieved.

Further, the determining whether the preset operation instruction is received includes: judging whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state; under the condition that the pot cover is judged to be switched to the cover closing state, a preset operation instruction is determined to be received; and under the condition that the cover is not judged to be switched to the cover closing state, determining that the preset operation instruction is not received. After frying cooking or pretreatment is finished, the purpose of determining whether stewing operation needs to be continued is achieved by detecting the state of the pot cover.

Further, under the condition that the execution time does not exceed the first cooking time and the cover closing state of the pot cover is not judged, the cooking appliance is controlled to execute cooking operation on the food according to the first cooking parameter. Under the condition that the state of the pot cover is judged not to be changed, the effect of ensuring the completion of the whole frying cooking or preprocessing operation is achieved by continuously executing the frying cooking or preprocessing operation.

Further, the first cooking parameter or the second cooking parameter is acquired in a manner including one of: acquiring an input first cooking parameter or a second cooking parameter; determining a first cooking parameter or a second cooking parameter based on the type of the food material; the first cooking parameter or the second cooking parameter stored in the cooking appliance is acquired. The cooking parameters of frying, pre-processing or stewing cooking operation are set in multiple modes, so that the effects of simplifying user operation, improving cooking taste and enabling the cooked food materials to better accord with the taste of the user are achieved.

Further, the cooking temperature is 30-180 ℃, and the first cooking time is 1m-1h, or 1m-24 h.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a cooking appliance including: detection means for detecting a current state of a lid of the cooking appliance, wherein the current state includes: an open state, a cover-closed unlocked state or a cover-closed state; the controller is connected with the detection device and used for controlling the cooking appliance to perform cooking operation on food materials according to the first cooking parameters, receiving the current state sent by the detection device, and controlling the cooking appliance to perform cooking operation on the food materials according to the second cooking parameters under the condition that the pot cover is judged to be switched to the cover closing state based on the current state, wherein the first cooking parameters comprise: cooking temperature and first cooking time, the second cooking parameter comprising: cooking pressure and a second cooking time.

Further, the detection device comprises at least one of: the cover opening and closing detection assembly is used for detecting a cover opening and closing signal of the cooking appliance, and the controller is also used for determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not based on the cover opening and closing signal sent by the cover opening and closing detection assembly; the temperature sensor is arranged at the top of the cooking appliance and used for collecting the top temperature of the cooking appliance, and the controller is also used for determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not by judging whether the top temperature sent by the temperature sensor reaches a preset temperature or not; the pot tooth detection assembly is used for detecting the state of a pot tooth of the cooking appliance, wherein the controller is also used for determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not based on the state of the pot tooth sent by the pot tooth detection assembly, and the state of the pot tooth comprises one of the following states: a locked state and an unlocked state.

Further, the open-close cover detection assembly comprises one of the following components: reed switches, Hall devices, micro-switches and photoelectric devices.

Further, the controller includes: the timing module is used for starting timing when the bottom temperature of the cooking appliance reaches the cooking temperature; and the processing module is connected with the timing module and used for receiving the timing time sent by the timing module and judging whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state based on the current state under the condition that the timing time is judged not to exceed the first cooking time.

Further, the cooking appliance is an electric pressure cooker.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a storage medium including a stored program, wherein the program performs the control method of the cooking appliance described above.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a processor for executing a program, wherein the program executes the control method of the cooking appliance.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without limiting the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a flowchart of a control method of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a flowchart of an alternative control method of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

fig. 4 is a schematic view of an alternative cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solutions of the present invention better understood, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present invention and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the invention described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a control method of a cooking appliance, it should be noted that the steps shown in the flowchart of the drawings may be executed in a computer system such as a set of computer executable instructions, and that although a logical order is shown in the flowchart, in some cases, the steps shown or described may be executed in an order different from that here.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a control method of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, the method including the steps of:

step S102, controlling a cooking appliance to perform cooking operation on food materials according to a first cooking parameter, wherein the first cooking parameter comprises: a cooking temperature and a first cooking time.

Specifically, the cooking appliance may be an appliance having a frying cooking function or a preprocessing function, and a stewing cooking function, and in the embodiment of the present invention, an electric pressure cooker is taken as an example for description. In the cooking appliance, the frying cooking function or the preprocessing function is a cooking function of heating food materials according to a specific temperature, the cooking temperature of frying cooking operation can be 100-180 ℃, and the corresponding first cooking time can be 1m-1 h; the cooking temperature of the pre-treatment operation may be 30-100 deg.c and the corresponding first cooking time may be 1m-24 h. The user can set according to frying or preprocessing requirements in the range, and if the user does not set, the cooking appliance can determine the final cooking temperature according to the default temperature or the type of the food material.

In an alternative scheme, parameters such as cooking temperature and cooking time can be set according to the type of the food material or customized by a user, then a frying or preprocessing mode is started, the cooking appliance is rapidly heated to the set cooking temperature to process the food material, and the set first cooking time is maintained.

And step S104, judging whether the pot cover of the cooking utensil is switched to a cover closing state.

Because the frying or pre-processing operation does not need to be pressed upwards, and the stewing and cooking operation needs to be pressed, when the frying and frying cooking operation is executed, a user can open the pot cover, and at the moment, the pot cover is in an open state; when the pretreatment operation is executed, the user can close but not lock the pot cover, and at the moment, the pot cover is in a state of covering and not locking; when the stewing and cooking operation is carried out, a user needs to close and lock the pot cover, and the pot cover is in a closed state. On the basis, whether pressure stewing is needed or not can be determined by detecting whether the pot cover is closed or not.

Step S106, under the condition that the pot cover is judged to be switched to the cover closing state, controlling the cooking appliance to perform cooking operation on the food material according to second cooking parameters, wherein the second cooking parameters comprise: cooking pressure and a second cooking time.

In the cooking appliance, the frying cooking function or the preprocessing function is a cooking function for heating food materials according to specific pressure, and in an optional scheme, parameters such as cooking pressure and cooking time can be set according to the types of the food materials or can be customized by a user, after the stewing mode is started, the pressure of the cooking appliance is quickly increased to the set cooking pressure to process the food materials, and the set second cooking time is maintained.

Optionally, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the determining whether the pot cover of the cooking appliance is switched to the closed state includes at least one of: determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not based on a cover opening and closing signal of the cooking appliance; judging whether the top temperature of the cooking appliance reaches a preset temperature or not, and determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not based on a judgment result; determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not based on the state of the pot teeth of the cooking utensil, wherein the state of the pot teeth comprises one of the following states: a locked state and an unlocked state.

Specifically, the cover opening and closing signal can be detected through the cover opening and closing detection components such as the reed switch, the hall device, the micro switch, the photoelectric device and the like, but the detection is not limited to this, the specific implementation scheme can adopt the prior art, and the details are not repeated herein.

In an alternative scheme, after the pot cover is opened and closed, the opening and closing cover detection component is triggered to generate a corresponding opening and closing cover signal, so that whether the pot cover is closed by a user can be determined based on the opening and closing cover signal detected by the opening and closing cover detection component. In addition, the existing cooking utensil is internally provided with an opening and closing cover detection assembly, and the effect of reducing the detection cost can be achieved by detecting an opening and closing cover signal.

In another alternative, the cooking appliance performs cooking when the lid is in the open state, the temperature of the top portion in the pot is low, the cooking appliance performs cooking when the lid is in the closed state, and the temperature of the top portion in the pot is high, so that a preset temperature can be preset, the preset temperature can be reached when the lid is in the closed state, and whether the lid is closed by the user is determined by judging whether the temperature of the top portion reaches the preset temperature.

In yet another alternative, after the user closes the lid, the teeth of the lid and the teeth of the body are locked, so that a tooth detection assembly may be provided in the cooking appliance, through which it is detected whether the teeth are locked, and further, whether the user closes the lid is determined by detecting whether the teeth are locked.

It should be noted that the scheme for detecting whether the lid is switched to the closed state is not limited to the above scheme provided in the embodiment of the present invention, and may be other schemes, and the present invention is not particularly limited to this.

The state of the pot cover is detected in various modes, the pot cover state detection method can be suitable for cooking appliances of different types, and the effect of improving the universality of the pot cover state judgment method is achieved. In addition, in order to avoid the faults of the cover opening and closing detection component or the pot tooth detection component, which result in the situation that the state of the pot cover cannot be accurately detected, in an optional scheme, multiple detection modes can be combined, for example, in the frying and frying cooking or preprocessing process, the effect of assisting in detecting the state change of the pot cover can be achieved by detecting the change of the top temperature.

Optionally, before determining whether the pot cover of the cooking appliance is switched to the closed state, the method further includes: acquiring the execution time of the cooking appliance, wherein the execution time is the time from the time when the bottom temperature of the cooking appliance reaches the cooking temperature to the current time; judging whether the execution time exceeds a first cooking time; and under the condition that the execution time does not exceed the first cooking time, judging whether the pot cover is switched to a closing state or not.

Specifically, the first cooking time may be a cooking time set for a fry cooking function or a pre-processing function, and the cooking appliance stops the fry cooking or the pre-processing operation after the cooking time is reached. In order to obtain the execution time of the cooking appliance, when the cooking appliance starts to execute frying cooking or preprocessing operation, a timer may be controlled to count time, and the execution time of the cooking appliance may be determined by reading the counted time of the timer.

Different users fry or the taste and the demand of preliminary treatment edible material is different, in order to can satisfy different users' demand, in an optional scheme, fry the in-process of frying or the preliminary treatment operation at cooking utensil to edible material, real-time detection user whether is closed the pot cover, if detect the pot cover and switch into the state of closing the lid, then confirm that the user is closed the pot cover to confirm to need to stew the culinary art operation, need not to wait to fry and cook or the execution of preliminary treatment operation finishes.

Optionally, in the above embodiment of the present invention, in the case that the execution time exceeds the first cooking time, the method further includes: judging whether a preset operation instruction is received or not within a preset time period; under the condition that a preset operation instruction is received within a preset time period, controlling the cooking appliance to perform cooking operation on the food material according to a second cooking parameter; and under the condition that the preset operation instruction is not received within the preset time period, controlling the cooking appliance to finish the cooking operation.

Specifically, the cooking appliance may automatically perform pan-fry cooking or pre-processing, and after the pan-fry cooking or pre-processing is finished, the user may no longer need to perform stew cooking, resulting in the pot lid being always in an open state, or the user may leave, resulting in failure to close the pot lid in time during the pan-fry cooking or pre-processing. On the basis, in order to facilitate the operation of the user and avoid the situation that the cooking appliance waits for the user to close the pot cover all the time, a selection time can be preset, so that the user confirms whether the pressure stewing is needed after the frying cooking or the preprocessing is finished. The preset time period may be a preset selection time, and may be specifically set according to an actual use requirement, which is not specifically limited in the present invention.

The preset operation instruction may be an instruction generated by pressing a specific button by the user, for example, when the user confirms that the pressure stewing is still required, the user may press a stewing function button, and the button generates the preset operation instruction; or by judging whether the user's lid is closed. In the embodiment of the present invention, the generation of the preset operation instruction is described by taking the detection of whether the lid is closed as an example.

In an optional scheme, after frying cooking or preprocessing is finished, whether pressure stewing is needed is determined by detecting whether a preset operation instruction is received, if the preset operation instruction is not received, the fact that a user only needs to fry food materials is indicated, cooking is finished, and a cooking appliance enters a standby state; and if the preset operation instruction is received, the fact that the user needs to continuously conduct pressure stewing on the food materials is indicated, and the cooking appliance is controlled to conduct stewing and cooking operation. Therefore, after frying cooking or preprocessing is finished, the effect that only food materials are fried or preprocessed or the food materials are fried or preprocessed and then stewed is achieved by detecting whether the preset operation instruction is received or not.

Optionally, in the foregoing embodiment of the present invention, the determining whether the preset operation instruction is received includes: judging whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state; under the condition that the pot cover is judged to be switched to the cover closing state, a preset operation instruction is determined to be received; and under the condition that the cover is not judged to be switched to the cover closing state, determining that the preset operation instruction is not received.

In an optional scheme, whether the lid is switched to the lid closing state may be determined by the method provided in the above step, which is not described herein again. After frying cooking or pretreatment is finished, the purpose of determining whether stewing operation needs to be continued or not is achieved by detecting the state of the pot cover.

Optionally, in the above embodiment of the present invention, when the execution time does not exceed the first cooking time and it is not determined that the lid is switched to the closed state, the cooking appliance is controlled to perform a cooking operation on the food material according to the first cooking parameter.

In an alternative scheme, during the frying cooking or preprocessing process, if the change of the opening and closing cover of the pot cover is not detected, which indicates that the frying cooking or preprocessing still needs to be continued, the frying cooking or preprocessing operation is continued to achieve the effect of ensuring that the whole frying cooking or preprocessing operation is completed.

Optionally, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the obtaining of the first cooking parameter or the second cooking parameter includes one of: acquiring an input first cooking parameter or a second cooking parameter; the method comprises the steps of obtaining the type of food materials contained in the cooking appliance, and determining a first cooking parameter or a second cooking parameter based on the type of the food materials; the first cooking parameter or the second cooking parameter stored in the cooking appliance is acquired.

In the above-described embodiments of the present invention, the first cooking parameter and the second cooking parameter may be acquired before the pan cooking or the preprocessing operation is performed, or the first cooking parameter may be acquired before the pan cooking or the preprocessing operation and then the second cooking parameter may be acquired before the stew cooking operation.

In an optional scheme, cooking parameters of frying, pre-treating and stewing can be set in various ways, for example, a user can manually set the cooking parameters according to own taste, so that the cooked food material can better accord with the taste of the user; or the type of the food materials put into the food processing system is set according to the user, and the food materials of different types are more purposefully cooked, so that the effect of improving the cooking taste is achieved. After cooking is finished, the used cooking parameters are memorized and stored and are used in the next cooking, so that the effect of simplifying user operation is achieved.

A preferred embodiment of the present invention is described in detail below with reference to fig. 2, and as shown in fig. 2, the method comprises the steps of:

and step S21, selecting a self-defining function, and setting frying time and temperature.

Optionally, when the user needs to cook, the user may start the self-defined function after setting the frying temperature and time, and enter the frying mode.

And step S22, controlling the temperature of the pan bottom to reach the set temperature to fry food.

Optionally, the frying mode is to rapidly heat the electric pressure cooker to a set temperature to process the food materials.

In step S23, it is determined whether the frying time is out.

Alternatively, it is determined whether the frying time is over, and if not, the process proceeds to step S24, and if so, the process proceeds to step S25.

Step S24, detecting whether the lid is closed.

Optionally, in the frying process, if it is detected that the pan cover is closed and the temperature of the top temperature sensor is greater than the preset temperature value, indicating that the frying of the food material is completed, the operation goes to step S26; if the cover is not detected to be closed and the temperature of the top sensor is not lower than the preset temperature value, the frying of the food material is not finished, the step S22 is returned, and the food material is continuously fried.

And step S25, selecting whether pressure stewing is needed.

Optionally, after the frying time is over, whether pressure stewing is needed or not can be confirmed within the default selection time, pressure cooking is carried out according to the selected parameters when the cooker cover is closed, and otherwise, the function is over.

And step S26, setting stewing pressure and time, and entering a stewing mode.

Optionally, in the pressure cooking stage, cooking parameters such as cooking time or pressure can be set or customized according to the type of the food material. After the electric pressure cooker finishes frying and frying the food materials, the electric pressure cooker enters a stewing mode to stew the food materials under pressure.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of a cooking appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the cooking appliance including: a sensing device 32 and a controller 34.

Wherein, the detecting device 32 is used for detecting the current state of the pot cover of the cooking utensil, wherein, the current state includes: an open state, a cover-closed unlocked state or a cover-closed state; the controller 34 is connected to the detection device, and is configured to control the cooking appliance to perform a cooking operation on the food material according to the first cooking parameter, receive the current state sent by the detection device, and control the cooking appliance to perform a cooking operation on the food material according to the second cooking parameter when it is determined, based on the current state, that the lid is switched to the lid closing state, where the first cooking parameter includes: cooking temperature and first cooking time, the second cooking parameter comprising: cooking pressure and a second cooking time.

The controller can be integrated in a main control chip of the cooking appliance or independently arranged, wherein the main control chip can be a single chip microcomputer, and the main control chip controls the heating device to realize frying, pre-processing or stewing cooking operation.

Optionally, in the above embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, the detecting device 32 includes at least one of: an open-close cover detection assembly 42, a temperature sensor 44 and a pot tooth detection assembly 46.

The cover opening and closing detection component 42 is used for detecting a cover opening and closing signal of the cooking appliance, and the controller is further used for determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not based on the cover opening and closing signal sent by the cover opening and closing detection component; the temperature sensor 44 is arranged at the top of the cooking appliance and used for collecting the top temperature of the cooking appliance, wherein the controller is also used for determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state by judging whether the top temperature sent by the temperature sensor reaches a preset temperature; the pot teeth detecting component 46 is used for detecting the state of the pot teeth of the cooking utensil, wherein the controller is further used for determining whether the pot cover is switched to a cover closing state or not based on the state of the pot teeth sent by the pot teeth detecting component, and the state of the pot teeth comprises one of the following states: a locked state and an unlocked state.

Alternatively, in the above-described embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, the controller 34 includes: a timing module 48 and a processing module 410.

The timing module 48 is configured to start timing when the bottom temperature of the cooking appliance reaches the cooking temperature; the processing module 410 is connected to the timing module, and is configured to receive the timing time sent by the timing module, and determine whether the lid is switched to the lid closing state based on the current state when it is determined that the timing time does not exceed the first cooking time.

Specifically, the timing module and the processing module may be integrated in the main control chip or separately provided. The first cooking time may be a cooking time set for a fry cooking function or a pre-processing function, and the cooking appliance stops the fry cooking or the pre-processing operation after the cooking time is reached. In order to obtain the execution time of the cooking appliance, when the cooking appliance starts to execute frying cooking or preprocessing operation, a timer may be controlled to count time, and the execution time of the cooking appliance may be determined by reading the counted time of the timer.

Alternatively, in the above-described embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, the controller 34 includes: and a control module 412.

The processing module 410 is further configured to determine whether a preset operation instruction is received within a preset time period when the execution time exceeds the first cooking time; the control module 412 is connected to the processing module 410, and is configured to control the cooking appliance to perform a cooking operation on the food material according to the second cooking parameter when a preset operation instruction is received within a preset time period, and control the cooking appliance to end the cooking operation when the preset operation instruction is not received within the preset time period.

Specifically, the control modules may be integrated into the main control chip or separately provided.

Optionally, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the processing module is further configured to determine whether the lid is switched to the lid closing state; under the condition that the pot cover is judged to be switched to the cover closing state, a preset operation instruction is determined to be received; and under the condition that the cover is not judged to be switched to the cover closing state, determining that the preset operation instruction is not received.

The control module 412 is further configured to control the cooking appliance to perform a cooking operation on the food material according to the first cooking parameter when the execution time does not exceed the first cooking time and the lid switching state is not determined.

Optionally, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the controller is further configured to obtain the input first cooking parameter or second cooking parameter; or obtaining the type of food materials contained in the cooking appliance, and determining a first cooking parameter or a second cooking parameter based on the type of the food materials; or acquiring the first cooking parameter or the second cooking parameter stored in the cooking appliance.

The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.

In the above embodiments of the present invention, the descriptions of the respective embodiments have respective emphasis, and for parts that are not described in detail in a certain embodiment, reference may be made to related descriptions of other embodiments.

In the embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed technology can be implemented in other ways. The above-described embodiments of the apparatus are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the units may be a logical division, and in actual implementation, there may be another division, for example, multiple units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, units or modules, and may be in an electrical or other form.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of units. Some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit. The integrated unit can be realized in a form of hardware, and can also be realized in a form of a software functional unit.

The integrated unit, if implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a removable hard disk, a magnetic or optical disk, and other various media capable of storing program codes.

The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, various modifications and decorations can be made without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these modifications and decorations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a cooking appliance, comprising:

controlling a cooking appliance to perform a cooking operation on a food material according to a first cooking parameter, wherein the first cooking parameter comprises: a cooking temperature and a first cooking time;

judging whether a pot cover of the cooking appliance is switched to a cover closing state or not;

and under the condition that the pot cover is judged to be switched to the cover closing state, controlling the cooking appliance to perform cooking operation on the food material according to a second cooking parameter, wherein the second cooking parameter comprises: cooking pressure and a second cooking time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the lid of the cooking appliance is switched to the closed state comprises at least one of:

determining whether the pot cover is switched to the cover closing state or not based on a cover opening and closing signal of the cooking appliance;

judging whether the top temperature of the cooking utensil reaches a preset temperature or not, and determining whether the pot cover is switched to the cover closing state or not based on a judgment result;

determining whether the pot cover is switched to the cover closing state or not based on the state of the pot teeth of the cooking utensil, wherein the state of the pot teeth comprises one of the following states: a locked state and an unlocked state.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the open-close lid signal is detected by an open-close lid detection assembly, wherein the open-close lid detection assembly comprises one of: reed switches, Hall devices, micro-switches and photoelectric devices.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein before determining whether the lid of the cooking appliance is switched to the closed state, the method further comprises:

acquiring the execution time of the cooking appliance, wherein the execution time is the time from the time when the bottom temperature of the cooking appliance reaches the cooking temperature to the current time;

judging whether the execution time exceeds the first cooking time;

and judging whether the pot cover is switched to the cover closing state or not under the condition that the execution time does not exceed the first cooking time.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein in the event that the execution time exceeds the first cooking time, the method further comprises:

judging whether a preset operation instruction is received or not within a preset time period;

under the condition that the preset operation instruction is received within the preset time period, controlling the cooking appliance to perform cooking operation on the food material according to the second cooking parameter;

and under the condition that the preset operation instruction is not received in the preset time period, controlling the cooking appliance to finish the cooking operation.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein determining whether the preset operation instruction is received comprises:

judging whether the pot cover is switched to the closing state or not;

under the condition that the pot cover is judged to be switched to the cover closing state, the preset operation instruction is determined to be received;

and under the condition that the pot cover is not judged to be switched to the cover closing state, determining that the preset operation instruction is not received.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein if the execution time does not exceed the first cooking time and the pan cover is not determined to be switched to the closed state, the cooking appliance is controlled to perform a cooking operation on the food material according to the first cooking parameter.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first cooking parameter or the second cooking parameter is obtained in a manner comprising one of:

acquiring the input first cooking parameter or the second cooking parameter;

determining the first cooking parameter or the second cooking parameter based on the type of the food material;

acquiring the first cooking parameter or the second cooking parameter stored in the cooking appliance.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the cooking temperature is 30-180 ℃ and the first cooking time is 1m-1h, or 1m-24 h.

10. A cooking appliance, comprising:

a detecting device for detecting a current state of a pot cover of the cooking appliance, wherein the current state includes: an open state, a cover-closed unlocked state or a cover-closed state;

the controller is connected with the detection device and used for controlling a cooking appliance to perform cooking operation on food according to first cooking parameters, receiving the current state sent by the detection device, and controlling the cooking appliance to perform cooking operation on the food according to second cooking parameters under the condition that the pot cover is judged to be switched to the cover closing state based on the current state, wherein the first cooking parameters comprise: cooking temperature and a first cooking time, the second cooking parameters comprising: cooking pressure and a second cooking time.

11. The cooking appliance of claim 10, wherein the detection device comprises at least one of:

the controller is further used for determining whether the pot cover is switched to the cover closing state or not based on the cover opening and closing signal sent by the cover opening and closing detection component;

the controller is further used for determining whether the pot cover is switched to the cover closing state or not by judging whether the top temperature sent by the temperature sensor reaches a preset temperature or not;

the pot teeth detection component is used for detecting the state of the pot teeth of the cooking utensil, wherein the controller is further used for determining whether the pot cover is switched to the cover closing state or not based on the state of the pot teeth sent by the pot teeth detection component, and the state of the pot teeth comprises one of the following states: a locked state and an unlocked state.

12. The cooking appliance of claim 11, wherein the open-close lid detection assembly comprises one of: reed switches, Hall devices, micro-switches and photoelectric devices.

13. The cooking appliance of claim 10, wherein the controller comprises:

the timing module is used for starting timing when the bottom temperature of the cooking appliance reaches the cooking temperature;

and the processing module is connected with the timing module and used for receiving the timing time sent by the timing module and judging whether the pot cover is switched to the cover closing state or not based on the current state under the condition that the timing time is judged not to exceed the first cooking time.

14. The cooking appliance of claim 10, wherein the cooking appliance is an electric pressure cooker.