raschemmel:
Have figured out how you're going to do the timers ?
Not really 
that's part of this exercise, though.
FSM- I think this is definitely worth a try. Assuming you already have the cooking hardware can you test the FSM using just water
and a stopwatch ? (monitoring the temps)
that's my plan, testing with water is good enough for testing.
Are you planning to use serial prints or lcds to monitor the timers and temps ?
serial to Python or Processing . I'm trying to avoid the overhead of lcds for now.