InternetofJim

7 ms·

1.
Cinder (YC W15) is hiring a hands-on EE to build magical cooking devices
1 points by InternetofJim 11y ago
2.
Cinder is hiring a hands-on EE (board level)-devices to cook amazing food(angel.co)
1 points by InternetofJim 11y ago
3.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
It cooks with heated plates, but it's an entirely different cooking process than something like Foreman-- more versatile, and with dramatically better results and enables new cooking techniques which can't be done reliably on any
4.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
Good suggestion. We plan to do that. There are already two early examples in our blog at blog.cindercooks.com: The grilled cheese grilled sandwich (the cheese is browned inside the sandwich) and an example of testing salmon recipes 4 differ
5.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
I try to eat as little solder as possible, even RoHS stuff :-) more seriously, getting a whole 10x10 plate to the same temp is trickier than just controlling a single point...
6.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
There's only one version, and it has both an app and a an onboard UI based on a knob-button with an embedded dot matrix display. We're very conscious of the tradeoff between onboard and app controls. The knob lets you have full ma
7.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
We're shooting for around 4 minutes, but depends on our production heating plates, which will have better heat transfer than the beta units. Also a question of whether/how we take advantage of 20A kitchen circuits. Internally, it&
8.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
The cooker goes up to a brief peak of 1600W when it's heating up rapidly, but for the extended cooking period, it stays well under 100W average.
9.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
Also worth mentioning is that there isn't a lot of juice running out of the food, because it generally stays inside. When you see a lot of liquid running out of meat, that's the taste running down the drain. Since I've starte
10.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
It's pretty, but there's nothing delicate about this cooker, and we plan to do a fairly extensive test program. We intend for this to be a real workhorse for cooks, usable several times per day for years.
11.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
We really haven't noticed any significant oxidation over cook times of up to 4 hours; We have not yet tested something like a 72 hour recipe. We do plan to have public demos from time to time (we've already done a few at various m
12.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
Check out my blog post, which covers a bunch of this at http://blog.cindercooks.com/cinder/2015/3/4/hot-tips . We'll keep talking there about what we can do and soliciting ideas on new creative ways
13.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
Our sensor elements are accurate out of the box, so in theory we shouldn't have to. But I'll admit, for our beta units, we still are calibrating each unit, largely for our readout electronics. We'll either fix this in the pro
14.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
We raise the temperature back up as quickly as possible without overshooting in thst case. During low temp cooking, you really only care about the maximum temperature, so you don't care much, it just takes a little longer to finish. Bu
15.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
Absolutely, it works beautifully from frozen. Incidentally, it's also great at rewarming, since many of the bad effects of reheating are from local overheating in a microwave or oven.
16.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
Thus far, it's been a lot easier to make people think of the positive connotation and ignore the negative than is generally thought. The name is intended to evoke low heat-- blow on a coal and it glows softly red, gently warming your f
17.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
No, not using induction, just traditional resistive heating plus materials, shape and heater design to get even heating. Preventing overshoot is a matter of the control method. We have a model of the system and use a predictive control algo
18.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
Precision cooking is the same, but this goes way beyond sous vide, because we can go above boiling, which is where all the fun reactions happen. Caramelization, browning, and similar reactions are what produce the really great, complex, fla
19.
by InternetofJim 12y ago
Co-founder/CTO here with a little backstory. Cinder (YC W’15) is like a countertop grill that controls temperature precisely to 2F across the entire cooking surface. I’m hoping this is exciting to HN because it’s not just a connected c
20.
Cinder (YC W15) – Smart Countertop Grill(gizmodo.com)
112 points by InternetofJim 12y ago|78 comments
21.
Ellipto: a fitness tracker in 71 lines of code with no servers or soldering(medium.com)
2 points by InternetofJim 12y ago|0 comments