About CookPerfect

A barbecue has to be a complete experience for everyone – also the host.

Avoid the stressful endeavor to achieve good cooking results with the CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer.

What makes CookPerfect unique, is how the thermometer measures the temperature in up to five places in the meat, and then mathematically calculates the core temperature (the coldest spot in the meat). Hereby you no longer have to worry of placing the tip of thermometer precisely in the core of the meat to achieve the desired result. You can now ensure perfectly cooked meat on the grill every time, regardless how its placed in the meat!

With the CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer and the accompanying App you can setup, cook and serve the perfect meal every time - It has never been more simple to grill as Champion!

Insert the CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer properly into the meat and start your cooking process. After cooking in 5 minutes the App has calculated when the meat is ready to be served. 

Achieve perfect cooking result without any concerns, relax and enjoy your cooking time with friends and family.

The CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer has a build-in probe for measuring the air temperature in your grill, thus you can monitor the outer cooking temperature and get alarms if the air temperature gets above or below specified limits.

The CookPerfect meat thermometer work with Grills, Ovens and Smokers. It even work with small cuts of meat, so if you want to cook your small cut of meat to perfection for example on a Pan CookPerfect will flawless and provide perfect results. 

The innovative CookPerfect App

It has never been more simple to set, monitor and achieve perfect cooking results every time.

Simply connect the thermometer to the receiver, open your CookPerfect App on your mobile device, and you are ready to setup the cooking process.

Choose between 3 different options for obtaining the cooking result - Meat temperature, Pre-select and Visual. 

Option 1 - Meat temp)

Meat temperature - you know what core temperature you want for your meat, simply enter the temperature and you are ready to Go!

Option 2 - Pre-select)

Pre-Select – you know which style you want (for example medium cooked beef), simply push the pre-selected style you prefer and you are ready to go - you even have the option to adjust the temperature, if you want to fine tune the cooking result.

Option 3 - Visual)

Visual select – you dont know exactly which temperature you want, but you know what it should look like when finished. Simply swipe between the different images and select the result you want and you are ready to Go! Different images for different types of meat.

Start cooking the perfect meal.

With the CookPerfect App is very easy to customize and monitor your cooking process.

The App will let you know after 5 minutes when the meat is done and ready to be served.

You can define alerts for both time and temperature warnings, thus you can prepare everything in advance and serve your perfect meal at the same time. 

The App also include an activity log where you can save, load and share your personal cooking profiles.

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With CookPerfect it’s plug and play - simply plugin the thermometer properly into the meat, choose type of meat and cooking result, push start cooking and you are ready to go.

Relax and enjoy the cooking time with friends and family. No need to worry if your thermometer is placed in the core of the meat.

The App will let you know when you are ready to serve the perfect meal - simple perfection!

Cooking pork to perfection has been even more challenging as the color of the meat depending of temperature almost looks the same.

Using CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer you can now avoid overcooking the meat and in stead cook juicy pork tenderloin, as you now are in control of the meat's core temperature.

Cooking meat with complex structures as fat marbling and fibres is really challenging using regular thermometers, especially as the meat changes shape during the cooking time. The Grill is often opened and closed, the thermometer is inserted into the meat in different places in an attempt to measure the core temperature – and yet, the result is not quite what you’d hoped for.

The CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer makes it simple to cook these types of meat to perfection. Simply place the thermometer in the meat, close the grill and wait for the App's message that the meat is ready to be served. 

The CookPerfect meat thermometer work with Grills, Ovens and Smokers. It can also be used to cook small cuts of meat on you Pan to perfection. Furthermore the CookPerfect works with 2 thermometers, thus you perfectly can cook to type of meats.

How does the CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer work?

The secret is a specially developed algorithm (mathematically calculation)

In order to get good cooking results you need to control the meats core temperature. 

The meats cooking temperature equals the core temperature (the coldest spot in the meat) – so to achieve a good cooking result it is essential to measure the core temperature of the meat correctly.

Usually, when you place a regular thermometer in the meat, the temperature is only measured at the tip of the thermometer. Therefore you need to be sure to place it precisely in the core of the meat. This is something you cannot determine before the cooking process begins due to the meat's complexity. If you cannot guarantee measuring the core (the coldest spot) you cannot guarantee to be in control of the core temperature.

Measuring the core temperature is thereby a complicated process. In fact, missing the core by one centimeter can result in a difference of 10 degrees Celcius, and there is a world of difference between 54 and 64 degrees Celcius – the difference between medium rare and medium done.

What makes the CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer so unique is how the thermometer measures the temperature in up to five places in the meat and then mathematically calculates the core temperature, You are thereby not dependent on a precise placement of the thermometer in the meat's core as the core temperature will be calculated regardless of the placement. Thereby you will always be guaranteed measurement of the core temperature.

When knowing the meats core temperature our special developed algorithm also inform you when the meat will be finished and ready to be served based on the settings you chose in the accompanying app.

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The Story behind the invention

We have always loved barbeque. That feeling of anticipation you get from the sight and smell of thick juicy cuts of meat sizzling on the grill.

Sadly though, the result hasn't always matched those expectations.

We had become increasingly irritated over the fact that there wasn’t a better tool available to simply achieve perfect cooking result every time.

From talking about it we discovered there were many others who shared our frustrations. Their grill thermometers lay unused in a drawer, because they didn’t help achieve good cooking results.

So we decided to act and began working on the development of the CookPerfect thermometer.

Overview of how the Funds will go

Through strong cooperation with our production partner we have already successfully built, tested and verified parts based on prototype tooling – including Hardware.

Furthermore we have manufactured a small batch of products for field test users around the World, therefore we are certain to deliver products according to our promises.

We have brought this project very far but for us to move into final stage and start mass production we need your support to obtain a successful campaign for realizing the project.

Timeline

Team

Kasper Kristensen and Martin Kloster are the founders of CookPerfect and long time friends.

"The idea began in annoyance of how complicated it was to achieve perfectly cooked meat on the grill using the regular meat thermometers available on the market. Like many Danes, we love to barbecue, but have too often experienced that the delicious meat on our barbecues were over- or undercooked, despite always using meat thermometers. We thought there had to be a simpler and better way, and that idea resulted in the CookPerfect. 

Martin Kloster: From 2001 to 2010 worked as entrepreneur with successful commercialization of technology projects. From 2011 to 2016 employed in a large Danish company as Senior project manager with overall responsibility to lead and drive global cross functional project teams to secure project’s time to market, budget and quality.

Kasper Kristensen: From 2010 to 2015 worked as Regional CFO in a large international company and lately worked as finance manager in a medium sized Danish Company. Both leading positions in international trading and manufacturing companies giving experience within all aspects of financial management combined with management and board work.

Ion Marqvardsen has played a very important role in the developing the Worlds most intelligent meat thermometer. Ion's primarily expertise is mathematic. A big credit to Ion as he has played an important role in developing our unique algorithm which makes cooking of meat to perfection very simple. On top of this, then Ion is highly skilled in design of antennas - our antenna design makes our Bluetooth communication very robust even over longer distances - superior to our competitors.

Also behind the scene are several specialists with expertise in their field, working hard to make the CookPerfect Meat Thermometer the most sophisticated thermometer available. The engineers are experts within: Mechanical design, Product ID design, Software and Hardware design.

Risks

Within project development of mechanical designs the big risks often lays hidden within the phases from conceptual design to releasing the design for tooling.

With integration of electronic designs it becomes even more challenging to avoid issues and delays of a project schedule.

Therefore we decided early on that we would do our outmost to bring this project through all the critical phases thus we are sure to be able to mitigate the unforeseen bumps that could occur late in a project. We are now very proud to say, that we actually were able to bring this project so far and eliminate all the big bumps and risks you would enter for such a venture.

That’s also why we can guarantee deliveries before Christmas of all X-mas Perks.

But we will of course continue looking into the horizon in attempt to foresee what could jeopardize our project schedule – some risks are:

• Delay in parts from sub-suppliers - Could be caused by a tool brake down.
• Slow Production ramp-up - Could be caused due to variation in quality of parts from sub-suppliers
• Delay in customs when distributing products around the World

Therefore if we get a very successful campaign, we will have an even stronger position to mitigate above mentioned risk – for example ordering extra tools of complex parts.

FAQ

What differentiates the CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer from other regular meat thermometers?

- The CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer measures the temperature of meat in five different places, providing the data for our algorithm which uses mathematical calculations to determine the meat’s core temperature. Other regular meat thermometers only measure temperature at the tip of the thermometer. Therefore, you are completely reliant on getting other regular thermometers positioned at the exact centre of the meat, whereas this does not really matter with the CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer.

How can you be so sure to get the core temperature right?

- We have developed an algorithm which uses five measuring points to calculate the coldest point in the meat (the core temperature). Just make sure to insert the thermometer through the centre of the meat.

Can the CookPerfect tell me when the meat will be done?

- Yes. Using the accompanying app, set your targeted cooking temperature (e.g. 54 degrees Celcius), press "start" on the app and after 5 minutes our algorithm will tell you when the meat reaches 54 degrees.

What happens if the grill’s temperature changes?

- Our algorithm continuously calculates the time needed to cook the meat. This means that if the grill’s temperature changes, cooking time will adjust accordingly.

How many pieces of meat can I measure simultaneously with the CookPerfect?

- You can measure two pieces of meat simultaneously – using two different thermometers – and follow them simultaneously in the app.

Can the CookPerfect be used in all kinds of meat?

- Yes

Can the CookPerfect work on smaller cuts of meat if the probe isn't fully inserted?

- The meat would have to be quite thin if it is not possible to place the CookPerfect Intelligent Meat Thermometer properly into the meat to calculate the meats core temperature.

If that is the case, like a chicken fillet or thin steak, then you can place it horizontally like you would do with other regular thermometers and it will work as you would expect.