Cook History: Finding, Searching, and Saving Your Past CooksUpdated 8 hours ago

From app version 3.3, the app saves every cook for you. You do not have to remember to export anything or keep a cook open. When a cook finishes, it goes into your history, with its full graph, its temperatures, and any notes you made along the way.

This guide covers where to find past cooks, how to search and filter them, and what you can do with one once you open it.

Where your past cooks live

Tap History at the bottom of the app. This opens the Sessions screen.

Your cooks are grouped by date, starting with Today and then working back by month. Cooks that are still running appear at the top under Today, marked Active in green.

What each entry tells you

Every cook in the list shows:

• Its name. Cooks are named automatically by type: Manual Cook, Predictive Cook, Gauge Session, or Engine Session. You can rename any of them.
• Which tool it came from, shown by the icon on the left: a thermometer, a Gauge, or an Engine.
• How long it ran.
• How many notes you saved during it, shown next to a small note icon.
• The target temperature, if it was a predictive cook.
• When it happened.
• A preview of the graph, so you can often recognise a cook by its shape alone.

Cooks that are still running do not show a graph preview until they finish.

Searching your cooks

Use the search box at the top of the Sessions screen. It looks through your session names and your notes, which is the main reason to name a cook something you will recognise, or to note what you were cooking while you were cooking it.

Filtering the list

Tap the filter icon in the top right of the Sessions screen. The icon turns yellow while a filter is active, so you can always tell when you are looking at a filtered list.

• Cook Types. Choose All, Manual, or Predictive. Predictive shows only thermometer cooks that had a target temperature set.
• Duration. Choose All, Under 1 hour, 1 to 2 hours, 2 to 4 hours, 4 to 6 hours, 6 to 8 hours, or Over 8 hours. Handy when you want to compare your long cooks against each other.
• Product. Narrow the list to one kind of tool.
• Hide Empty Cooks. See below.
• Archived. Switch to your archived cooks. See "Archiving a cook" below.

What "Hide Empty Cooks" does

A thermometer that is awake records a session, even when it is not in any food. Leave a clean probe on the bench overnight, and you get a session that is really just a record of your kitchen.

Hide Empty Cooks looks at the data in each session and makes a judgement about whether it was a real cook or just ambient room temperature. It weighs up several things to decide.

It is a best guess rather than a rule, so if a cook you care about is missing from the list, switch this filter off and look again.

Opening a past cook

Tap any cook to open it. You get the same view you get during a live cook:

• The graph, which you can scrub through to read the temperature at any moment.
• Core, surface, and ambient temperatures, or all eight sensors in advanced view.
• Start time, end time, and total duration.
• Your notes.
• Which tool recorded it.

To switch between Fahrenheit and Celsius, tap the temperature unit at the top. To switch between standard and advanced views, tap the three dots and choose the display mode, or double-tap any temperature.

Notes on a cook

Notes are the part of Cook History that is easy to overlook and the part most worth using. A graph tells you what the temperature did. A note tells you what you did.

Notes you saved during a cook appear underneath the graph, with the time you saved them. Markers along the graph show where each note sits, so you can scrub to a moment and see what you wrote at the time.

You can add a note to a cook that has already finished. Open the cook and use the note button at the top. This is useful for writing down how something turned out once you have eaten it.

Notes are included when you export a cook as a CSV.

Renaming a cook

Open the cook, tap the three dots, and choose Rename Session. You can also tap the name at the top of the screen and type over it.

Naming a cook is what makes it findable later, because search looks at names.

Exporting a cook

Open the cook, tap the three dots, and choose Export CSV. This works exactly like exporting a cook that is still running, and your notes come with it.

If you export a cook that is still in progress, the app warns you that the export is incomplete before it saves.

Archiving a cook

If you do not want a cook cluttering your list, archive it. Open the cook, tap the three dots, and choose Archive.

Archiving does not delete anything. The cook stays exactly as it was; it just moves out of your main list.

To see your archived cooks, tap the filter icon and choose Archived. The screen title changes to Sessions, Archived, so you know where you are.

To bring one back, press and hold it in the archived list and choose to restore it. It returns to your main list in its original place in the timeline.

Finding out which tool recorded a cook

At the bottom of any cook, you will see a Device section showing the tool that recorded it. This can be different from the name of the session, especially if you renamed it.

Press and hold the device to copy its serial number. This is helpful if you ever write to us about something odd in a particular cook.

Still have questions?

If a cook you expected is not in your history, or something in a saved cook does not look right, email our support team at [email protected] and include:

• Which cook you are looking for, and roughly when it happened
• Which tool recorded it, and its serial number if you have it
• What you see in the History tab, and a screenshot if it helps

You can also compare notes with other cooks on Reddit at r/combustion_inc.

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