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RFID Cookware
HaggiZ writes "Vitacraft are claiming to have what they call RFIQin Robotic Cookware (unfortunate name). It's basically pots and pans that you can place RFID cooking cards in the handle with. The communicate with the induction stove 16 times a second to adjust the cooking when required. Neat idea, although I'm not sure anything I cook needs to have it's temperature reviewed or adjusted every 0.06 of a second." For all the evil uses of RFID that have been floated over the years, it's nice to see that someone is going to finally make it so I stop burning my lunch.
If CmdrTaco wants to stop burning his lunch, he will stop making the same mistake nearly everyone else does when burning stuff: they forget that its cooking in the first place. Whenever you are burning something, I'd say roughly about 95% of the time it can be attributed to the fact that you forgot it was cooking in the first place or were otherwise engaged elsewhere (playing a video game, doing a seperate cooking step, etc) and you missed your time cue to remove the food from the heat source. So what you really arent fancy RFID device, what you need are some decent kitchen timers, nothing fancy, just something that is loud and will let you know when its time is up. Now, if the RFID device could somehow detect that the food was burning and the subsequently turn off the heat source, that might be useful, though any hardcore cook would not likely ever use any of these type of devices beyond perhaps a digital meat thermometer. The market is definitely tech-toy lovers and people who can't cook (note, these two catagories may possibly be mutually inclusive).
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Doesn't sound like "just" pots and pans to me. Sounds more like Entire Oven Appliance and Cookware unless that RFID pots and pans come with machanical robtic arm with RFID reciever to turn my gas stove knob to turn down the heat.
Besides that, how many times do we ever "cook" lunch?
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