Patent ID: 8217321

Claim:
A method for generating, processing and analyzing a temperature or a signal correlated to a temperature at an electric cooker during an operating state of said cooker, comprising: measuring said temperature of said cooker, via a temperature sensor device; providing said temperature to a control unit which records said temperature; differentiating, via the control unit, said temperature by time to obtain a result; inverting, via the control unit, said result; raising, via the control unit, the inverted result to the power of an exponent between 0.5 and 1 to obtain a starting value, wherein said starting value is taken as a basis for further processing and analysis; and utilizing, via the control unit, said starting value to determine a quantity of contents of a cooking utensil placed on said cooker, where a point in time at which a boiling point is reached is predetermined from this when heating energy supplied by said electric cooker is known for adjustment of a further boiling point detection process.