Want a robot chef? Well, this concept from Counter Intuitive Cooking Inc may be just what you've been looking for. The idea here is that a single appliance both stores and cooks your food. Once a request has been received to cook your meal, the desired meal cartridge is transferred from the cool storage area of the device over to the cooking section. The machine then proceeds to cook your food according to predetermined instructions. And voila, dinner is served!
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an appliance. In one embodiment, the appliance has an enclosed structure which includes a first portion configured to receive one or more meal cartridges, and store and preserve the meal cartridges at a selected temperature range; a second portion; and transfer mechanism configured to transfer at least one meal cartridge in the first portion to the second portion within the enclosed structure in response to a command input for cooking the at least one meal cartridge. The second portion is configured to accept the at least one meal cartridge, receive a cooking instruction command including a cooking duration and temperature determined for the at least one meal cartridge, and cook the at least one meal cartridge based upon the cooking duration and temperature.
Multi-meal cold storage and cooking appliance and system
Inventor: Maxwell Henry Wieder, Edward David Holzinger, Clayton James
Current Assignee: Counter Intuitive Cooking Inc.
Filed : Mar. 7 , 2022