TrueCookPlus was a
microwave oven
A microwave oven (commonly referred to as a microwave) is an electric oven that heats and cooks food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range. This induces polar molecules in the food to rotate and produce ...
operating system developed and patented by Microwave Science JV LLC. TrueCookPlus is endorsed by the
National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association on behalf of over 1300 US frozen food industry member companies.
As of 2019, the website with all the TrueCookPlus codes, TrueCookPlus.com, is offline.
Operation
TrueCookPlus utilizes short numeric codes to control cooking. After the user enters the code, the TrueCookPlus adjusts the cooking to conform to
USDA
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food. It aims to meet the needs of com ...
Food Safety and Inspection Service
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is the public health regulatory agency responsible for ensuring that United States' commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg pro ...
standards for food type, weight, packaging size/shape and starting state; taking into account static microwave oven variables such as
wattage
Electric power is the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt, one joule per second. Standard prefixes apply to watts as with other SI units: thousands, millions and billions o ...
, cavity size, wall voltage, hot or cold oven state, elevation above sea level and standing time.
History
In 2008, the first TrueCookPlus licensed microwave ovens were launched in a limited national
test market
A test market, in the field of business and marketing, is a geographic region or demographic group used to gauge the viability of a product or service in the mass market prior to a wide scale roll-out. The criteria used to judge the acceptabilit ...
beginning at
Best Buy in August, then
Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...
in September. During this test market phase,
Consumer Reports selected the TrueCookPlus equipped
Kenmore model #6633 as its #1 Top Rated mid-sized countertop microwave oven.
Consumer Reports: Microwave Ovens
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See also
* Video recorder scheduling code
VCR Plus+, G-Code, VideoPlus+ and ShowView are different names for the same scheduling system for programming VCRs and digital video recorders. These names are all registered trademarks of Macrovision, whose corporate predecessor, Gemstar, d ...
References
External links
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Embedded operating systems
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