Are you cooking-challenged? Then Philips’s new invention may be for you (if it ever becomes a real product). From New Scientist‘s invention blog:
The secret is to measure the amount of water released while the food cooks, whether it is baking, frying or being cooked in a microwave. Apparently, this accurately reveals the food’s dryness and crispness without the need to taste it.
An oven or fryer would contain a precise scale, capable of recording the total weight of anything placed inside it. As it cooks a meal it measures the weight difference, revealing how much water has been released in the form of steam. To make the measurement more accurate, the released water could also be trapped, condensed and weighed.
The budding chef need only enter a few commands, telling the machine what kind of food is being cooked, and how crispy it should be. An electronic library of cooking instructions then sounds an alarm and switches the oven off when it is perfectly done.
Cool!
Um, I mean…hot!
