FireBoard’s New Tool Answers the Question: “When Will Dinner Be Ready?”

Today FireBoard is releasing a major new feature called FireBoard Analyze™ on their app that gives users a new way to examine and track their cooks.

Ted Smoking a pork shoulder to beta test the new features on the FireBoard app.

FireBoard Analyze™ currently includes two main functions, Predictive Analysis and Session Comparison.  Predictive Analysis, will project and estimate/predict when a cook should  be complete. This will be useful in various aspects of meal preparation, including an answer to the eternal questions “when is it going to be ready?”

New to the FireBoard App, tap the Analyze icon to start either Predictive or Comparison analysis. Giving users a sense of the pace of their cook in either type of analysis, the rate of temperature change is displayed above the graph, showing both last hour and last five minutes temperature changes.

The second tool, called Session Comparison, gives users the ability to compare a past cook with an active one.  Both are currently available, via the new Analysis tab found at the bottom of the FireBoard app’s Dashboard.

FireBoard Analyze™ helps users improve their cooks, just like Burnt Finger’s award winning brisket!

Predictive Analysis offers Linear and S-Curve graphing

Predictive Analysis is based on a target temperature that you set.  Calculations are made continuously throughout your cook constantly giving you a fresh estimate of when you reach your desired temperature.

Screen shots of Steven’s test brisket. The S-Curve of Predictive Analysis changes in real time to give the user an accurate estimation of when their target temperature will be reached.

The tool also gives you the option to toggle between the predictive S-curve and a Linear graph view.  The Linear, is simply a straight line between your current temp, and the temp you want to end at.  This would be useful to see where your cook would go if you lived in a perfect world.  The S-Curve is an ever-changing representation of when your meat will reach that temperature.

The Analyze feature offers users to toggle between a predictive S-Curve and a straight line graph, estimating the time a certain temperature will be reached.  In linear view, the user can set what time frame to grab temperature data from to calculate the end time.  Accomplished by tapping and dragging the gray shaded area of the graph, notice the difference between end estimates of the two examples center and right.

Session Comparison

An additional real time cooking tool that FireBoard is rolling out today is called Session Comparison.  This handy tool lets users overlay a previous cook with an active one, in real time. This allows users to compare and contrast a successful cook from the past with a present session. 

Use “Choose a session” to select what past session to compare a current cook to. Once selected use “Offset Adjust” to align the past cook with current.

The new Analyze feature on FireBoards App helps cooks manage their time, by giving them real time estimates of when their meat will reach a desired temperature.

Screen shots of Ted’s pork shoulder using Session Comparison.   Temperature graph of the past cook is shown in the gray, while the active cook is shown in orange.

This new addition to the app is available to FireBoard users free of charge, as part of their next App update, and will be visible as a new tab labeled “Analyze” on the app’s dashboard.  Download the app today for both Android and iOS.