Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1999-05-03
2000-09-26
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99342, 99344, 99403, 73 73, A23L 100, A47J 2700, A47J 2704, G01K 102, G01K 1300
Patent
active
061230138
ABSTRACT:
An instrument for measuring the stage of cooking of pasta in a cooking liquid including a gripper (112) immersed in the cooking liquid. The gripper includes a squeezer (12) to retain and elastically compress a sample of the pasta (30). The squeezer (12) includes a stationary contrasting element and an elastic compression element which includes an elastic with a fixed setting. The elastic compression element is movable with respect to the stationary contrasting element in a manner functionally correlated to the progressive loss of consistency of the sample of the pasta (30) as cooking proceeds. The instrument further includes an electrical circuit (34) having at least one contact (33) and a signal (37). The position of the contact (33) is correlated to a predetermined state of cooking of the pasta (30). A monitoring rod (20) is attached to the elastic compression element and emerges from the cooking container. A pivoting element is attached to the monitoring rod (20) and cooperates electrically with the at least one contact (33) to close the electrical circuit (34) in response to movement of the monitoring rod (20) as the cooking of the sample of the pasta (30) proceeds to the predetermined state of cooking of the pasta (30), thereby activating the signal (37).
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