US 11,849,748 B2
Cooking appliance and method for starch-based foodstuffs
Guangming Su, Shanghai (CN); Weihua Lu, Shanghai (CN); and Xiao Yun Kui, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to VERSUNI HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/284,811
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Nov. 8, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/080700
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 13, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/099266, PCT Pub. Date May 22, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2018/115996 (WO), filed on Nov. 16, 2018; and application No. 19161846 (EP), filed on Mar. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0337837 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A23L 5/10 (2016.01); A23L 19/18 (2016.01); A47J 36/32 (2006.01); A47J 37/06 (2006.01)
CPC A23L 5/17 (2016.08) [A23L 19/18 (2016.08); A47J 36/32 (2013.01); A47J 37/0641 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for cooking a starch-based food item, comprising:
a vessel for receiving a quantity of the starch-based food item with an initial weight;
a weighing scale for weighing the starch-based food item during cooking;
a heater for heating the starch-based food item; and
a controller coupled to the weighing scale and the heater, and configured to:
cause the heater to cook the starch-based food item at a first temperature for a first time duration, wherein the first temperature is higher than a starch gelatinization temperature; and
cause the heater, in response to a determination that, based on a weighing scale reading, a weight of the starch-based food item drops by a first amount in a first range, to cook the starch-based food item at a second temperature for a second time duration sufficient for the weight of the starch-based food item to drop by a second amount, such that a combined drop of the first amount and the second amount relative to the initial weight is within a second range, wherein the second temperature is higher than the first temperature and above 150° C.