A Frying Pan That Teaches You to Cook
One of ten brilliant innovations from our 2015 Invention Awards
| Inventors: | Humberto Evans, Mike Robbins, Kyle Moss, Yuan Wei |
| Company: | CircuitLab Inc. |
| Invention: | Pantelligent |
| Development Cost To Date: | $20,000+ |
| Maturity: | 5/5 |
Instead of eating at dining halls in college,
Humberto Evans cooked his own meals. His best friend, Mike Robbins, on
the other hand, could barely fry an egg. Robbins would forego the lure
of takeout only when Evans gave him step-by-step cooking instructions.
The two realized that others probably needed some culinary hand-holding
as well. With help from two other MIT engineering alumni, Kyle Moss and
Yuan Wei, they created the world’s first smart frying pan: Pantelligent.
The pan measures its temperature with heat
sensors and transmits the data via Bluetooth technology in its handle. A
smartphone app uses this information to decide when it’s time for a
recipe’s next step and then tells the user. “To cook amazing food the
way chefs do, you have to build intuition for how long to cook something
at the right temperature,” Evans says. “We take all that knowledge and
package it into our app.”
Users can choose a preprogrammed recipe, such as
chicken adobo or fried eggs, or select freestyle mode to get temperature
readings but not instructions. If a person likes the meal made in this
mode, he or she can record and share the recipe. With a tool that
de-stresses the kitchen experience, the Pantelligent team hopes more
people will skip unhealthy processed meals in favor of home-cooked ones. by Junnie Kwon.
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