Electric heating cooker with weighing function and weighing control method thereof
View Patent ↗An electric heating cooker with weighing function and a weighing control method thereof are provided. An electronic scale ( 5 ) with weighing function is added under the traditional electric heating cooker and stores cooking experience database and food information database. It solves the problem that users aren't accurate about the amount of water to add for a given weight of ingredient. And experience curve of heating power are designed at different weight points for food such as rice or meat, and also it makes the cooker to intelligently adjust parameters according to the taste feedback of the user so as to be more closer to the user's taste for the cooking next time; additionally it is capable of showing the total and average content of heat quantity, cholesterol, protein, fat, salt and cook oil of various foods in current cooking or if there are unmatched foods.
1. A weighing control method of an electric heating cooker comprising the following steps of:
firstly, assembling a electronic scale with high-precision under the electric heating cooker, wherein precision of the electronic scale is 5 g, 2 g or 1 g, and a weight of the whole cooker is calculated by a main control unit of the electronic scale using a real-time pressure signal sent by a weight sensor of the electronic scale;
secondly, storing the following information in a memory of the main control unit as a cooking experience database and a cooker information database, comprising:
different cooking modes wherein available modes comprises cooking rice, cooking porridge, cooking soup and stewing meat,
cooker information, comprising cooker's type, cooker's weight, cooker lid's weight, cooker's volume, the slope's critical value of calm stage and the slope's critical value of pre-boiling stage,
information of a main ingredient needed for a specific cooking mode, which includes the main ingredient's type and weight,
information of auxiliary ingredients needed, which includes each kind of auxiliary ingredient's type and weight,
standard weight of water needed,
adjustment values for flavors, which comprises a water fine-tuning weight value for a medium flavor, a fine-tuning weight value for a flavor of hard rice or strong soup, a fine-tuning weight value for flavor of soft rice or light soup,
an initial heating power,
an expected time taken to achieve boiling totally,
after boiling to a specific weight point, another heating power is used until another specific weight point or until a specific timeout happens, and
other auxiliary ingredients' type and weight needed to be added during boiling;
thirdly, before the beginning of electrical heating, searching from the cooking experience database and the cooker information database stored in the memory of the main control unit according to factors chosen by the user, which comprise a cooking mode, cooker information, main ingredient's type, and main ingredient's weight added in, and flavor expected wherein available flavor options include medium, rice hard, rice soft, soup strong, soup light, so as to inform users types and weight of auxiliary ingredients to be added
fourthly, after the beginning of electrical heating, measuring the weight change of the whole electric heating, cooker so as to obtain a slope which reflects the evaporating speed of the vapor, wherein this slope is compared with a slope's critical value of calm stage and a slope's critical value of pre-boiling stage to get the inner status of cooking of the cooker, the whole cooking heating process is divided into a calm stage, a pre-boiling stage, a boiling-front stage, a boiling-later stage and a heat preservation stage, and the initial heating power is used before the boiling-later stage begins, further during the boiling-later stage according to the cooking experience database at a specific weight point another heating power is used until another specific weight point or until a specific timeout happens, or ask the user to add another kind of auxiliary ingredients with a certain weight into the cooker, in the end heat preservation heating is used in the power heat preservation stage;
fifthly, after achieving the cooking process, requiring the user to give flavor feedback for this cooking, accordingly the cooker will adjust the adjustment value for flavors of the cooking experience database stored in the memory of the main control unit to increase or decrease the water fine-tuning weight value.
2. The weighing control method of the electric heating cooker according to claim 1 , wherein the weighing control method applies to electric heating cookers of voltage heating or electromagnetic heating, and doesn't involve the field of gas cooker.