Turn your mobile into a FRY-phone: App-controlled smart pan ensures you'll never burn your food again
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A smart frying pan that helps you cook by telling you what to do and when has been released.
Called Pantelligent the smart device uses a heat sensor to give you specific instructions on how to prepare food.
It syncs up with your smartphone or smartwatch to give you alerts and reminders as to when you need to perform a task.
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A team of former MIT engineers in California has created Pantelligent. The smart frying pan (shown) syncs up with phones to make cooking easier. It has a temperature sensor and wireless connectivity to send instructions and reminders to your smartphone or smartwatch
The team behind the project, four former Massachussets Institute of Tehcnology (MIT) engineers from California, is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.
'Now anyone can cook delicious meals perfectly,' they write.
'The secret ingredient is temperature control.'
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It operates just like a regular pan on a hob but has some technology hidden safely inside.
In the middle of the frying pan is a temperature sensor that communicates with an iOS app.
This gives you constant reminders as your food cooks, telling you what to do and when to do it.
Most of the methodology revolves around time and temperature; by knowing the temperature of the pan, the technology knows how long food needs to cook for.
Before you start cooking it asks for specifics about the food you intend to cook - such as the thickness of salmon - so it knows exactly how long to cook it for.
This helps it keep track of the temperature and time required.
And it will tell you when to flip or move your food so that it cooks evenly.
Using an app for your phone it will display a graph showing you the temperature of the pan.
And when it is time for you to do something, or the food has finished cooking, it will send you a notification.
The pan is non-stick while the handle, containing the technology that syncs with your chosen device, is made of commercial-grade thermoset plastic resin, the same material used for high-quality frying pan handles.
'Pantelligent helps you cook anything you can cook with a regular frying pan, only smarter, and perfect every time,' the team adds.
There are dozens of recipes available in the app at the moment but there are apparently more on the way.
The £159 ($249) device is due to begin shipping in August next year.
There are dozens of recipes available in the app at the moment but there are apparently more on the way. They tell you how to prepare your food (shown) and what you'll need to cook a particular meal. The £159 ($249) product is scheduled to begin shipping in August 2015
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