Patent ID: 6837148

Claim:
Device for assisting in culinary preparation, comprising a plurality of electric household appliances ( 10 , 20 , 30 ) and a remote monitoring and control apparatus ( 2 ) for said electric household appliances ( 10 , 20 , 30 ), the monitoring and control apparatus ( 2 ) being provided with display means ( 3 ) and selection means ( 4 ), and being adapted to receive condition signals (SE) characteristic of the condition of said electric household appliances and to emit toward them control signals (SC), characterized in that the selection means ( 4 ) permit a user to select a prerecorded culinary preparation which is modeled as a series of steps of preparation, of which certain ones taken alone constitute an assisted elementary phase using a first group of electric household appliances by associating with each of them operating parameters, and in that, in the course of at least one assisted elementary phase, the monitoring and control apparatus ( 2 ) receives a condition signal (SE) from each of the electric household appliances of a second group, and emits toward each of the electric kitchen appliances of the first group a control signal (SC) dependent on the one hand on said condition signals (SE), and on the other hand on the operational parameters associated with each of the electric household appliances of the first group and with said assisted elementary phase.