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Kitchen appliance is a portable induction cooktop, but also has a built-in digital weighing scale. This enables you to both cook and also add in ingredients while measuring them by weight. This would be a useful feature to make cooking easier when following recipes by weight measurements.
Induction Cooktop
https://www.amazon....600LS/dp/B01FLR0ET8
small portable induction cooktop [sanman, Jan 23 2024]
Kitchen Scale
https://www.amazon....pered/dp/B07S6F6LHQ
digital kitchen scale [sanman, Jan 23 2024]
The gas version from 2011
https://www.trendhu...nds/scale-gas-range
Intended to adjust temperature while cooking, doesn't mention weighing engredients [a1, Jan 23 2024]
Royal Prestige Portable Induction Cooker with built in scale
https://www.royalpr...tail/precision-cook
This one DOES weigh ingredients [a1, Jan 23 2024]
Multi-function smart scale (2015 patent)
https://patents.goo.../US20160252390A1/en
"...the scale can be integrated into a work/cooking/food preparation surface, or the entire work/cooking/food preparation surface can serve as the platform.." [a1, Jan 23 2024]
Good to know what a tar button is when commenting on it.
https://www.google....GA8&sclient=gws-wiz
Resets to zero, doesn't delineate ingredients by weight. [doctorremulac3, Jan 23 2024]
You've inspired me.
Skillet_20or_20Pot_...20Cooking_20Process
[doctorremulac3, Jan 23 2024]
CHEF iQ Smart Pressure Cooker
https://www.amazon....ooker/dp/B0863JB424
BUILT-IN SCALE: Use the precise built-in scale to easily measure ingredients and cook by weight, simplifying both prep and cleanup-no measuring cups needed. Four integrated smart sensors measure ingredients accurately and tell you exactly how much liquid is needed to cook meals to perfection [a1, Jan 24 2024]
Gourmate Smart All-in-1 Multi-Cooker
https://www.amazon....ivity/dp/B09YMPF9P7
Perfect for chefs of all levels. Pair with My Gourmate app to control appliance and monitor meal’s progress. Guided recipes in App will assist beginners while manual mode allows experienced home chefs to cook on their own. Efficient Features include Remote Pre-Heat, Integrated Scale, Multi-Layered Cooking, 90-minute timer [a1, Jan 24 2024]
Blender with built in scale
https://www.google....with+built+in+scale
[a1, Jan 24 2024]
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[+] This would work. Hit the ‘tare’ button before adding new stuff. Pretty good when coming up with recipes, too. I can never remember exactly how much chili oil I added to the Pad Thai. |
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It could be networked to a data logger and a RFID or barcode reader so as you pick up the chili oil and pour it in, the system calculates the amount you added and graphs that against time and temperature. At the end it listens Alexa style for mmms and yums or bleurghs or recriminations and uses AI voice recognition to detect specific comments e.g. "hy dod you put so much chili oil in its inedible". Then it calculates a weighted score and a little sticky label printed dispenses a badge that you can wear with a Tripadvisor style star score for your cooking today. |
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This is an amazing idea, just put the pan or bowl on first and hit "Calibrate" so it zeros out and you only get the food measurements. |
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Then push a button as you add each ingredient so it lists those separately. So if it's 2 pounds of chicken you hit "Ingredient added" and it shows you a readout of "Ingredient 1= 2 pounds" then mushrooms, hit "Next" button lists "Ingredient 2= 8oz" chicken broth, hit the button, wine, hit the button etc. |
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Lighter ingredients like salt and shallots probably wouldn't show up but the main ingredients could just be put in until the numbers were right. |
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This is a really amazing idea. [+] |
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I wouldn't say "widely known to exist" but there are products and patents for this concept, been around for years. |
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For me it would be a tough sell. Stand alone digital scales are inexpensive and don't take up much space in kitchen prep area, and easily replaced if they break. Building one into a stovetop might save some counter space, but it may also be expensive (or impossible) to repair if it fails. |
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It's not built into the stovetop. It's a portable appliance, he even put a link up as an example. |
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So did I. See Royal Prestige link. |
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So sanman, looks like the idea is baked, but the individual ingredients delineation might still be patentable. |
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Yea, looking at that 2015 patent looks like the delineation thing where you have one area and just push a button for "Intredient 1, 2, 3, 4" etc is a completely new idea. |
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So to be clear it'd work like this. |
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Ingredient one... (dots sequencially blink while waiting, put stuff on burner-push ingredient one added)
Ingredient one= 1.5 pounds (readout moved to...)
Ingredient two... etc. |
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Again, it wouldn't have the lighter ingredients, but the main stuff would all be listed on the screen and your recipe would be what you'd look at to see what ingredient one was. |
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// Maybe i'll patent it // |
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You could try. But every digital scale I've ever seen has a "tare" function which can be used as you describe for "delineation." [minoradjustments] already mentioned this. |
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(Wait - not EVERY one .., our bathroom scale doesn't. Very different product category though) |
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Last try, a tar button just resets the scale, this keeps a log of the ingredients that you can refer back to, you can also scroll back and add more or take out some as you adjust the recipe for flavor, texture etc. |
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Goes without saying that you can get a total at the end if you want. |
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On scales made for weighing heroin? |
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tare, yes, left off the e by typing too fast. |
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So you get an A for spellcheck to make up for everything else. |
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Or a smily face sticker, however that's graded. |
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Anyway sanman, sometimes you can find an idea you thought of has already been done, but take it to the next level with an improvement. |
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As an aside, the feature you describe to weigh each item as it's added also exists. Look up counting scales and accumulator scales. |
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Now, combining that into a kithchen appliance *might* be patentable - but by itself is not new. |
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I'm adding that you can input the recipe downloaded from the web. |
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Click on the recipe page, bluetooth it to the scale and add the ingredients as prompted. "Chicken, 2 pounds..." when you put the right amount in it says "Next ingredient..." and weighs it until it says "STOP". We're still talking a cooking scale here, eliminate use of multiple containers. |
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It would also feature timing and instructions. "Stir till timer says done". Then 5 minutes later at 350 degrees, it says "Now add mushrooms..." Those scolling periods are integral to the idea, they keep strobing till the correct weight of the ingredient as been added, then it says "STOP" and gives the next instruction with a running timer. "Stir..." then "STOP" after the appropiate cooking time. |
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Thanks for helping with this A1. I think now I've really got something here. For the first time this is something that I'd actually buy. |
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Just occurred to me, could do this with a skillet as well. Leave out the whole heating mechanism, I think that would be better, certainly easier. |
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The 'tare' thing is standard functionality for most modern digital kitchen scales, so that was baked into what I posted in the first place. Indeed, my own kitchen scale certain works that way, and is part of what I like about it. So I certainly had that in mind when I posted this concept. |
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But now that I think about it, this same idea could be incorporated into various kitchen appliances like multi-cookers, etc, which tend to be space-saving multi-function appliances. |
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// this same idea could be incorporated into various kitchen appliances/... space saving multi function ... // |
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You mean like the CHEF iQ Smart Pressure Cooker that includes a "Built-in Scale, 1000+ Presets & Times & Temps w/App for 600+ Foolproof Guided Recipes"? Or the Gourmate Smart All-in-1 Multi-Cooker, that promises all that and more? |
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Actually, now that I think about it - why not even for a kitchen blender? |
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// why not for a blender ? // |
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Why not, indeed? These also exist. |
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How about a cutting board then? |
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Which of these features do you want built in to your cutting board? Scales, induction heaters, recipe management, tailpipe whistles, or something else? |
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[a1] I don’t want anything called a ‘Gourmate’ near my kitchen. It sounds like something you found on your neck after a shower. |
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You're all thinking back to front. The device should be in the form of a pad that the user stands on. Whenever the user picks something up the unit sets a tare, and then measures the gradual lightening as the stuff is poured out. |
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