Electric cookers are programmed to shut down one or more rings if they are all set high and the power used risks blowing a fuse. But with several dishes on the go at once, the loss of a ring can ruin the whole meal.
Turkish oven maker Gunkol Gunes Enerjisi, based in Istanbul, thinks a meal is best served late than not at all. So the firm is developing a computerised cooker that cools down all its rings when power consumption hits a preset limit. But it helpfully keeps all the rings’ relative temperatures constant (WO 2004/28211), so although the…
