Tell it your kitchen: burners, ovens, shelves, hands. Pick a menu and a time. It schedules every step backwards from dinner, then talks you through it while the phone is in your pocket. The recipes are just data; the scheduler is the product.
What it models
- Resources are contended. Burners, ovens, pans, the sink and the cook all have limits, and the schedule works backwards from serve time with all of them in play.
- One oven, one temperature. Shelves add capacity inside one thermostat, not extra ovens.
- Attention is two things: whether your hands are free, and how far you can walk away.
- Physics, not typed-in numbers. Boil time comes from burner wattage and water mass, oven preheat from the oven type.
- Freshness windows. A rested whole bird holds twenty minutes; carved meat holds four.
It’s checked by scheduling every pair of dishes in the library across three kitchens, 1,053 plans, and asserting that none double-books the cook, overfills the hob or puts two temperatures in one oven.
In the kitchen
Cues go out on the alarm channel so a hood fan can’t drown them. Steps advance on their own, and the second button is +5 MIN rather than a DONE you’re obliged to press. It doesn’t ask for the microphone, and a cook survives the phone killing the app.