Cooking apparatus with cooking characteristic monitoring system
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1. A cooking apparatus, comprising:
- a heater;
a food item container that, in use, receives a food item to be heated by said heater;
a temperature probe assembly having a food item probe; and
a cooking characteristic monitoring system which includes, a) a local cooking characteristic information conveyance visibly mounted externally on said food item container and having a first probe temperature display device; and
b) a remote cooking characteristic information conveyance device which is remote to said foot item container and is in remote data communication with said local temperature probe information conveyance device, and which has a second probe temperature display device.
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Abstract
A cooking apparatus with an information exchange system that involves an assembly featuring a cooking apparatus such as a smoker or an electric turkey fryer and an information exchange system that provides for local and/or remote monitoring of cooking characteristic that preferably includes food item temperature probing that is displayed externally on the cooking appliance as in a local remote cooking characteristic information conveyance device that are preferably either in unidirectional of bi-directional.
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30 Claims
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1. A cooking apparatus, comprising:
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a heater;
a food item container that, in use, receives a food item to be heated by said heater;
a temperature probe assembly having a food item probe; and
a cooking characteristic monitoring system which includes, a) a local cooking characteristic information conveyance visibly mounted externally on said food item container and having a first probe temperature display device; and
b) a remote cooking characteristic information conveyance device which is remote to said foot item container and is in remote data communication with said local temperature probe information conveyance device, and which has a second probe temperature display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30)
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19. A cooking apparatus, comprising:
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a smoker chamber;
a heater which heats said smoker chamber;
a local cooking characteristic information conveyance device supported by said smoker chamber; and
a remote cooking characteristics information conveyance device with a cooking characteristic display. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A cooking apparatus comprising:
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an electric heater unit;
a control unit in communication with said heater unit;
a cooking pot which, in use, receives cooking fluid that is heated by said heater unit;
a food item temperature probe assembly; and
a local cooking characteristic information conveyance device that receives food item temperature data from said probe assembly and displays received food item temperature data on a display supported by said control unit. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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