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It’s hardly a secret, especially after Oprah told everyone to buy one, that Amazon has* an e-book reader called the Kindle. There’s a general review of the Kindle and a comparison between [...]
Thinking back to the old Kitchen Computer idea of yore, one of the important aspects of it is being able to monitor, in depth, the temperature of, well, everything in the chain of the food. So, obviously the food itself should be monitored, the cooking environment, the cooling environment, and the resting environment. This will [...]
On of the concerns I’ll have with the Kitchen Computer is how to actually measure the temperature of the various kitchen items in a way that can link into the computer. I’ve recently run across an article on a sensor for measuring temperature and how to use it. It’s not quite what I need, as [...]
This is exactly what I’m talking about. It’s a barcode scanner that hooks up to your computer. You can use it to scan every thing that you throw away and buy, so you can keep a “running inventory” of your kitchen. It’ll make a shopping list for you so you can replenish your inventory to [...]
Now we have a computer that should keep track of our recipes and time our cooking. Next, I need something to help me with making new recipes. There’s a few aspects to this that would help out in day-to-day kitchen use.
First, I need to be able to easily track what I put into an [...]
At this point in the series, we have a basic computer setup with recipes and a series of thermometers. Not a bad start, but we need more.
I had some friends visiting this past week, and I wanted to cook a nice dinner meal for them. Since I don’t see them often, I figured I’d [...]
I’m toying around with the idea of making a kitchen computer. Why? Well, the obvious first reason is that I’m a geek, so putting a computer in every room of the house is not necessarily an idea I’m opposed to. That’s right, every room.
Still, one normally needs more reason than that, especially if the room [...]
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