Device and kit and method for measuring the degree of doneness of a cooked piece of meat

US4141239A · kind A · utility

Inventor

• John Gilbert · Royersford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 18, 1978
• Grant date: Feb 27, 1979
• Expiry date: May 18, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S116/17
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A plurality of blocks of resilient material are arrayed in proximity to each other. Each block has a predetermined amount of compressibility which is equal to the amount of compressibility of a model piece of meat which has been cooked to a known degree of doneness. In a preferred embodiment, four blocks will be labeled to indicate the corresponding degrees of doneness of four model pieces of meat which have been cooked to known degrees of doneness, and whose amounts of compressibility are equal to the amounts of compressibility of the blocks being labeled. In the preferred embodiment, the first block will be labeled rare, the second block medium rare, the third block medium well done and the fourth block well done. The degree of doneness of a cooked piece of meat can be measured by compressing the piece of meat and then compressing the blocks to determine which block has an amount of compressibility equal to the amount of compressibility of the cooked piece of meat. The degree of doneness of the cooked piece of meat will be the same as the degree of doneness of the model cooked piece of meat, which is correspondingly equal in amount of compressibility with the block, whose amount …