Improve your kitchen with home automation

Cooking is something many of us enjoy doing at home. There are few feelings more rewarding and satisfying than cooking a delicious meal in your own kitchen and sharing it with your family or friends.

However, cooking can be difficult. There are a lot of things to pay attention to, a lot of things that can go wrong, and a lot of preparation and planning to stay on top. The good news is that home automation offers many different solutions to make the cooking process easier, more fun and more organized.

In this article, we will see how home automation can improve the kitchen and share some sample Arduino projects.

How home automation can help with cooking Storage. Things like smart fridges and smart pantries can help you stay on top of your ingredients, get low level alerts, and even automatically add items to your next shopping list. Measure. Tools like timers and thermometers can add a touch of precision to your cooking sessions, helping you stick to recipes, manage time, and create the perfect dish. Experimentation. The right solutions can help you experiment with different cooking styles and try things that would otherwise be tricky. Security. There are plenty of home automation tools out there that can help detect things like gas leaks and alert you to any potentially risky situations in your home kitchen. Some examples of Arduino projects

Shahariar, a member of the Arduino community, developed this handheld infrared thermometer using Arduino programming and a handful of other components. Along with the ability to measure temperature, this device also has a stopwatch function, kitchen timer and inactivity tracking, making it the perfect Swiss army knife for the home kitchen.

It contains:

A temperature sensing device based on infrared radiation, to measure the average temperature of the surface it is currently facing. A stopwatch based on the standard sports device, designed to measure elapsed time. A kitchen timer that alerts you at preset intervals - for example, when your chicken is ready to be removed from the oven - by sounding an alarm. An inactivity tracker that notifies you to move after a predefined number of minutes. This is designed to keep you active and healthy in the kitchen.

TheParticleGuy created this Arduino kitchen helper to help you out in the kitchen. This project shows you recipes, sets timers, displays the temperature of your food, and even leaves notes. It works by connecting to Amazon Alexa, doesn't need to be plugged in, and can be carried around the kitchen with you.

You can give instructions to the device via Alexa, such as "Alexa, set a timer for 10 minutes" and ask questions such as "Alexa, how do I cook Thai curry?" You can also ask the device to convert units of measurement, leave notes for later (like reminders to buy ingredients), and ask Alexa for the temperature of your current dish.

Arduino community member Mohammad Haizad designed this project to solve a problem that most of us have faced at some point: the shortage of oil.

Oil is one of those kitchen items that we always seem to have a bottle full of until the day it runs out. Then we end up with a pile of ingredients and no oil to cook them! Mohammad decided to solve this problem once and for all by building a DRS oil container that automatically orders a new bottle of oil when your current bottle runs low.

The DRS Oil Container works by using an ultrasonic sensor to measure the level of oil in the bottle. It is connected to an MKR1000, which initiates a purchase through Amazon as soon as the sensor reading falls below the threshold value.

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