Patent ID: 9645007
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: A23L,A23V,G01G,G01N,G06F,G09B

Claim:
1. A method for a computing device to assist a user in assembling a culinary combination according to a recipe, the recipe identifying one or more ingredients and one or more target amounts, each of the ingredients associated with one of the target amounts, the method comprising: the computing device receiving real-time data from a scale; the computing device determining a tared weight based on the real-time data, wherein the tared weight represents weight added to the scale since taring; the computing device causing an electronic display to display one or more recipe blocks, including a first recipe block; the computing device selecting the first recipe block as an active block, then selecting a first ingredient as an active ingredient, wherein the first ingredient is one of the one or more ingredients, then selecting a target amount for the first ingredient as the target amount for the active ingredient, and then taring the tared weight; the computing device determining a measured amount of the active ingredient based on the tared weight; and the computing device causing the electronic display to display real-time progress of the measured amount of the active ingredient, the computing device displaying a portion of the active block in a different manner than a remainder of the active block, wherein the portion of the active block displayed differently is based on a ratio of the measured amount of the active ingredient compared to the target amount for the active ingredient.