SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF MULTI-FUNCTIONAL COOKING APPARATUSES

Control system (100), method and computer program product for controlling a multi-function cooking apparatus master (200) and at least one multi-function cooking apparatus slave (300) for jointly processing one or more food products. The control system has a recipe program interface (120) to receive at least one recipe program (601) for preparing one or more food products wherein the at least one recipe program includes machine readable recipe program instructions configured to control functions (240, 340) of a cooking apparatus (200, 300) for executing food processing steps in accordance with the least one recipe program (601) For each food processing step, the recipe program provides information about the technical capabilities required for the execution of the food processing step. A program analyzer module (130) identifies, for a particular food processing step, at least one particular slave (200) providing a reduced functional scope (340) with technical capabilities which are sufficient to execute said particular food processing step, and extracts from the at least one recipe program (601) a partition (601s) including a program instruction subset associated with the particular food processing step. A recipe deployment module (140) deploys the extracted partition (601s) to the at least one particular slave (200) for execution, and further deploys the remaining program partition (601m) of the recipe program to the master (200).