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Ok, that's the marketing spiel, but how does this differ from a regular microwave?

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londons_explore 3y ago
I suspect it uses phased array antennas to: * Direct microwaves at different parts of the food differently. That way you can cook some stuff lots while leaving other parts cold. * Detect which parts of the food are cooked - by watching the absorption of microwaves across a broad range of frequencies, you should be able to detect chemical reactions that happen at certain temperatures - eg. ice turning to water, or raw egg becoming cooked egg. Combine these two things, and you can cook food far 'better' - and get all of your meat to the perfect temperature while overcooking none.
- londons_explore 3y ago
  Notably, I don't think you need phased array antennas to do this. A few bits of spinning metal to scatter microwaves in random directions could instead be controlled by servos and lots of maths to send microwaves in very specific directions. And as long as you make sure you have feedback, you can realtime adjust the microwave power every few microseconds to do all the same things.
  - joshspankit 3y ago
    My intuition says phased arrays are the more reliable way to do this. Less moving parts and more control. As well, it feels like phased arrays in general are at a really good maturity to be used for this kind of application.
    - londons_explore 3y ago
      They're fiendishly expensive if you want a kilowatt of output power...
      - joshspankit 3y ago
        Clearly. The price reflects it (and puts it out of the budget of most markets), but I thing Miele is targeting reliable more than they are targeting low cost.
vosper 3y ago
Because a regular microwave can't do what was described in the comment you're replying to? A microwave just heats everything - maybe irregularly, but not intentionally irregularly > By regulating the oven’s heat in one place, you can cook the fish while the ice stays frozen. Another such example is making cooked and raw salmon at the same time, by focusing the oven’s action at specific areas of the salmon
zebracanevra 3y ago
https://youtu.be/wMwjHnspohU?t=585 https://youtu.be/wMwjHnspohU?t=585 The oven knows how to cook the food. It knows this because it knows how much energy has been put in to the oven, and how much energy was not put in to the food. By subtracting how much energy was put in, from how much came out, it obtains the kilojoules of energy the food absorbed, or the Gourmet Unit. Does Miele also design missiles?
- hammock 3y ago
  >Does Miele also design missiles? The technology comes form a company called Goji Food Solutions. This is the founder - he has a bunch of other patents, mostly focused in the medical devices, biotech and healthcare spaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Ben-Haim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Ben-Haim
  - bombcar 3y ago
    It's a reference to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ > The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

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I suspect it uses phased array antennas to: * Direct microwaves at different parts of the food differently. That way you can cook some stuff lots while leaving other parts cold. * Detect which parts of the food are cooked - by watching the absorption of microwaves across a broad range of frequencies, you should be able to detect chemical reactions that happen at certain temperatures - eg. ice turning to water, or raw egg becoming cooked egg. Combine these two things, and you can cook food far 'better' - and get all of your meat to the perfect temperature while overcooking none.

londons_explore 3y ago
Notably, I don't think you need phased array antennas to do this. A few bits of spinning metal to scatter microwaves in random directions could instead be controlled by servos and lots of maths to send microwaves in very specific directions. And as long as you make sure you have feedback, you can realtime adjust the microwave power every few microseconds to do all the same things.
- joshspankit 3y ago
  My intuition says phased arrays are the more reliable way to do this. Less moving parts and more control. As well, it feels like phased arrays in general are at a really good maturity to be used for this kind of application.
  - londons_explore 3y ago
    They're fiendishly expensive if you want a kilowatt of output power...
    - joshspankit 3y ago
      Clearly. The price reflects it (and puts it out of the budget of most markets), but I thing Miele is targeting reliable more than they are targeting low cost.

vosper 3y ago

Because a regular microwave can't do what was described in the comment you're replying to? A microwave just heats everything - maybe irregularly, but not intentionally irregularly > By regulating the oven’s heat in one place, you can cook the fish while the ice stays frozen. Another such example is making cooked and raw salmon at the same time, by focusing the oven’s action at specific areas of the salmon

zebracanevra 3y ago

https://youtu.be/wMwjHnspohU?t=585 https://youtu.be/wMwjHnspohU?t=585 The oven knows how to cook the food. It knows this because it knows how much energy has been put in to the oven, and how much energy was not put in to the food. By subtracting how much energy was put in, from how much came out, it obtains the kilojoules of energy the food absorbed, or the Gourmet Unit. Does Miele also design missiles?

hammock 3y ago
>Does Miele also design missiles? The technology comes form a company called Goji Food Solutions. This is the founder - he has a bunch of other patents, mostly focused in the medical devices, biotech and healthcare spaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Ben-Haim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Ben-Haim
- bombcar 3y ago
  It's a reference to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ > The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.