Patent ID: 6591738
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: G01K

Abstract:
A device for signaling at least one cooking state of at least one cookable item, such as an egg, a potato, a pepper, rice, noodles, in a liquid cooking medium, said device comprising an at least partially floating jacket, a temperature sensor arranged in a thermally conductive communication with an outside of said jacket, an analog to digital converter, and a signaling device, having(a) a digital computing unit, comprising a digital delay portion, to delay a first temperature value of the liquid cooking medium, measured and digitized, said delay portion having at least one time delay to provide a thermally delayed second temperature value as an output of said delay portion; (b) an activating device to activate the signaling device once said second temperature value approaches a first temperature threshold for signaling a first cooking state of the at least one cookable item.