Cooking computer

Claim 2

A cooking computer for determining the cooking operation of a cooking apparatus, said computer having a manually settable weight input means for indicating a single selected indicated weight applicable to all meat items and corresponding to the weight of a particular meat item to be cooked, said computer having a second input means indicating a selected variable other than the weight of the meat and one that is self-explanatory so that one does not need additional information for the proper selection of the variable of the same, said second input means being operatively associated with said weight input means, and said computer having a time period output means operatively associated with said input means to provide as an output a cooking time period for said particular meat item computed as a function from both of said input means.

Claim 3

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 1 wherein said time period output means includes means for automatically indicating said computed cooking time period.

Claim 4

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 2 wherein said computer has a computer actuator operatively associated with said automatic indicating means, said actuator being adapted to cause said automatic indicating means to indicate said computed time period only after said weight input means has been set and then said actuator has been actuated.

Claim 5

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 2 wherein said computer has timer means operatively associated with said automatic indicating means for causing said indicating means to indicate elapsing time of said computed time period once said computed time period is being utilized.

Claim 6

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 1 wherein said computed cooking time period is based on a cooking time formula that is substantially the results of seventy times the square root of the Weight setting of said computer or forty times the square root of the weight setting of said computer.

Claim 7

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 5 wherein said formula of said computer is also based on a fixed or variable factor added to said results to provide for a selected degree of doneness of said particular meat item, said selected degree of doneness comprising said second input means of said computer.

Claim 8

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 1 wherein said second input means of said computer comprises a meat doneness input means operatively associated with said weight input means and said time period output means, said meat doneness input means being adapted to set said computer at a doneness setting for said particular meat item whereby said computed cooking time period is based on a cooking formula that comprises the two input variables of weight and doneness.

Claim 9

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 7 wherein said cooking time formula for said computer is based substantially on the results of seventy times the square root of the weight setting of said computer plus the doneness setting of said computer or the results of forty times the square root of the weight setting of said computer plus the doneness setting of said computer.

Claim 10

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 1 wherein said computer has controller means operatively associated with said time period output means for operating a cooking apparatus for said computed cooking time period.

Claim 11

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 1 wherein said second input means indicates by words the variables thereof.

Claim 12

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 10 wherein said words provide for the selection of the degree of doneness of the meat item such as by ''''rare,'''' ''''medium,'''' and ''''well.''''

Claim 13

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 10 wherein said words provide for the selection of the meat type such as by ''''fowl'''' and ''''beef.''''

Claim 14

A cooking computer for determining the cooking operation of a cooking apparatus, said computer having a manually settable weight input means for indicating a single selected indicated weight applicable to all meat items and corresponding to the weight of a particular meat item to be cooked, said computer having a second input means indicating a selected variable other than the weight of the meat operatively associated with said weight input means, and said computer having a time period output means operatively associated with said input means to provide as an output a cooking time period for said particular meat item computed as a function from both of said input means, said second input means of said computer comprising a meat doneness input means operatively associated with said weight input means and said time period output means, said meat doneness input means weight being adapted to set said computer at a doneness setting for said particular meat item whereby said computed cooking time period is based on a cooking formula that comprises the two input variables of weight and doneness, said computer having means for providing another output means that a predetermined cooking temperature for the particular meat item should be reduced to another predetermined temperature at a particular time during the elapsing of said time period so that the particular meat item will be substantially at the doneness of the doneness setting of said computer at the termination of the computed cooking time period.

Claim 15

A cooking computer for determining the cooking operation of a cooking apparatus, said computer having a manually settable weight input means for indicating a single selected indicated weight applicable to all meat items and corresponding to the weight of a particular meat item to be cooked, said computer having a second input means indicating a selected variable other than the weight of the meat operatively associated with said weight input means, and said computer having a time period output means operatively associated with said input means to provide as an output a cooking time period for said particular meat item computed as a function from both of said input means, said second input means of said computer comprising a meat doneness input means operatively associated with said weight input means and said time period output means, said meat doneness input means weight being adapted to set said computer at a doneness setting for said particular meat item whereby said computed cooking time period is based on a cooking formula that comprises the two input variables of weight and doneness, said computer having means for providing another output means that a predetermined cooking temperature for the particular meat item should be reduced to another predetermined temperature at a particular time during the elapsing of said time period so that the particular meat item will be substantially at the doneness of the doneness setting of said computer at the termination of the computed cooking time period.

Claim 16

A cooking computer as set forth in claim 9 wherein said meat doneness input means is operatively associated with said temperature reducing output means to set said temperature reducing output means in accordance with the doneness setting of said computer.