2935results about "Vessels with intergral heating" patented technology

A stir-frying apparatus (100) with an overhead-heating device (128). Apparatus (100) comprises a container (102) for holding foods, a lid (120) covering on top of container (102), a bottom heating device (118) installed underneath container (102) and an overhead heating device installed on lid (120), a stirring blade (136) rotatably and removably installed inside container (102) for stirring foods, a power-drive assembly (140) operationally coupled with blade (136) for driving blade (136) through repeating stirring cycles, a coupling device (134) for coupling assembly (140) and blade (136), a venting device (200) for filtering and deodorizing cooking fumes, a blowing device (202) for forcing fresh air into apparatus (100) for the removal of moisture from therein-side, and an ingredient adding conduit (250) for use of adding ingredients during a frying process.

The invention pertains to a multi-functional cooker having a thermal probe operatively connected to a controller for controlling a heating element in response to a real-time temperature reading from the probe. By controlling the level of heat provided by the heating element in response to real-time temperature readings, optimal comestible flavor may be achieved. The multi-functional cooker also includes a hinged lid for directing fluid on an inner surface of the lid into a cooking vessel of the invention upon opening of the lid.

Food stuffs are cooked at precise temperatures, which are optionally below 100° C., in a vessel that is evacuated to exclude air, in which low pressure steam replaces the air. When a sufficient quantity of air is excluded and replaced with water vapor, the temperature of vapor is accurately measured inside the vessel below the lid to control the temperatures within about 1° C. Air is preferably excluded via a controlled heated process for a relatively short period of time at high temperature to generate steam, the temperature is lowered to condense water vapor upon which the lid will sealingly engage the rim of the vessel, forming a partial vacuum in the cooking vessel.

An electric rice cooker capable of increasing the water content of rice by a simple structure. The electric rice cooker (1) has a pot (10) in which food substances to be cooked including water and rice are contained, heating device (5, 6, 19) for heating the food substances to be cooked in the pot, a lid (11) for closing the opening of the pot, and a controller (9) for performing rice cooking steps including a water absorption step for allowing the rice to absorb the water by controlling the heating devices. The controller (9) raises the internal pressure of the pot (10) to 1.05-1.18 atm in the water absorbing step to allow the rice to absorb the water.

The invention relates to the field of food cooking, and discloses a cooking method and equipment and a cooking device. The method comprises the steps that an image of food in the cooking device is collected; the collected food image is matched with pre-stored standard images, and different standard images correspond to different cooing modes; under the situation that the collected food image is matched with any one of the pre-stored standard images, the cooking device is controlled to work in the cooking mode corresponding to the matched standard image; under the situation that the collected food image is not matched with all the standard images in the pre-stored standard images, the cooking device is prompted to enter a learning mode. Therefore, different cooking modes can be adopted for different food, and the cooking process of the food can be more accurately controlled.

A device for processing and cooking food comprises a base housing a heating element for a food cooking function and a controllable motor for a food processing function. A container seatable on the base has an inlet for introducing food and an outlet for processed food. A blade is rotatably mounted within the container and driven by the controllable motor to process any food that is introduced into the container. A removable pan is seatable on the base proximate to the heating element to define a cooking surface. The outlet is positioned relative to the removable pan so that any food introduced into the container exits the outlet directly onto the cooking surface. A spatula can be coupled to the base and positioned within the removable pan for movement across the cooking surface to stir the processed food as it is cooked. A method is also disclosed.

A slow cooker comprises a case; a control circuit component and an inner pot for receiving food are disposed inside the case; the inner pot is arranged inside the case in a pick-and-place manner; a temperature detection component for temperature detection is arranged on the sidewall of the inner pot, and a mount seat connected to the case is arranged at the bottom of the inner pot; a liftable heating apparatus is arranged on the mount seat; the heating apparatus comprises a heating component and a lifting mechanism which can drive the heating component upwards and downwards. A temperature detection component arranged in the slow cooker is capable of detecting the temperature in the inner pot precisely; a lifting mechanism arranged in the slow cooker is capable of adjusting the distance from the inner pot to preheat the inner pot, improving cooking efficiency.

A roasting oven having a large capacity heating well including a wrap-around heating element for heating the side walls thereof and a top heating element for browning is disclosed. A function control panel featuring a touch-film interface and digital display of cooking modes is provided for the user's convenience. In an alternative embodiments standard electromechanical switches and rheostatic temperature controls provide the functions of the present oven. The heating elements are also fabricated in alternative embodiments to provide single-sided or double-sided configurations for particular heating applications. A lid member including the top heating element is attached to the present oven by electrically conductive supporting structures, which incorporate the electrical circuit for the top heating element and also provide for convenient disconnection thereof for cleaning and storage.

Apparatus for cooking food has a lid (18), a base (12) and a container (14) removable from the base (12) and suitable to contain food. A first heating unit (16a) associated with the base (12) has a plurality of electric heating elements (22) configured to achieve a specific heating surface to heat the container (14) and to be selectively activateable depending on the sizes and position of the container (14) on said base (12). The first heating unit (16a) has a control and command unit (20) associated with the heating elements (22) and sensitive elements (28) configured to recognize the position, size and shape of the container (14) and is configured to selectively command the heating elements (22) on the basis of the recognition by the sensitive elements (28) of which heating elements (22) are activated or can be activated in order to heat the container (14) directly.

The invention belongs to the field of pans, and particularly discloses a smart pan comprising a pan body, a handle, a thermocouple and a pan controller. The thermocouple is assembled to the bottom of the pan body, and the pan controller is disposed within the handle. The pan controller acquires the corresponding cooking program, the cooking program is configured with the set value of the pan temperature associated with time, the measured value of the pan temperature based on thermocouple detection and the set value of the pan temperature obtained from the cooking program are processed to generate a control signal for manipulating a heating unit for heating the smart pan and changing the strength of heating power of the heating unit, the measured value of the pan temperature is enabled to reach the set value of the pan temperature till the cooking program is totally executed by the pan controller, and food cooking is finished. Throughout the cooking process, the smart pan manipulates the heating unit based on the acquired cooking program, the temperature of the smart pan is controlled automatically, food cooking is completed without user participation, and users can make delicious food either with or without cooking skills.

An electric heating cooker with weighing function and a weighing control method thereof are provided. An electronic scale (5) with weighing function is added under the traditional electric heating cooker and stores cooking experience database and food information database. It solves the problem that users aren't accurate about the amount of water to add for a given weight of ingredient. And experience curve of heating power are designed at different weight points for food such as rice or meat, and also it makes the cooker to intelligently adjust parameters according to the taste feedback of the user so as to be more closer to the user's taste for the cooking next time; additionally it is capable of showing the total and average content of heat quantity, cholesterol, protein, fat, salt and cook oil of various foods in current cooking or if there are unmatched foods.

A cooking appliance includes a housing defining an interior space, a tray assembly positionable within the interior space, the tray assembly configured to support a food product. The cooking appliance further includes at least one lower heating element positioned below the tray assembly within the interior space, at least one upper heating element positioned above the tray assembly within the interior space, and a controller configured to operate the at least one upper and lower heating elements in accordance with a selected mode of a plurality of selectable modes, wherein operating parameters for the at least one upper and lower heating elements vary between the plurality of selectable modes.

The hob (1) comprises a support plate (2) which has a treatment area (3) and the cooking vessel (50) has rotary blades (53) connected to an upper magnetic coupling member (54). Below the plate (2) of the hob (1) there is a lower magnetic coupling member (4) rotatably driven by an actuator (6) to magnetically transmit torque to the upper magnetic coupling member (54) of the vessel (50). The hob (1) includes a lower magnetic element (8) below the plate (2) and the vessel has an upper magnetic element (58), which are at the same predetermined distance from the rotating shafts (E1, E2) of the respective magnetic coupling members. When the vessel (50) is in a predetermined angular position, the magnetic attraction between the lower and upper magnetic elements (8, 58) applies opposition to the rotation of the vessel (50).

A cooking apparatus includes a cooking chamber and user interface, which includes a controller, display, and memory for storing recipes. The display is coupled to the controller and displays recipes. A method includes selectively displaying recipes and selecting a manual or recipe mode. In the manual mode, a heat setting and cooking time is selected. The selected cooking time is decremented in predetermined increments and the heating element is energized in accordance with the selected heat setting, after which the heating element is energized according to a keep warm setting for a predetermined time, following which it is de-energized. In the recipe mode, a main menu is displayed, from which the user selects a recipe category. A sub menu is displayed, from which the user selects a recipe identifier associated with the selected recipe category. A list of ingredients for the selected recipe identifier is then displayed.

Obtained is a rice cooker capable of cooking chewy-textured delicious rice without the installation of a complex mechanism. This rice cooker (100) is provided with: a body (1); a lid body (10) for opening and closing the body; a pot (5) received within the body; a stickiness level selection means (22) for selecting the level of stickiness of rice; heating means (3, 28, 29) for heating the pot; temperature detection means (4, 14) for detecting the temperature of either the pot and / or the rice; and a control means (8) which, when determining that temperature information from the temperature detection means indicates that the temperature is higher than or equal to a boiling temperature, controls the heating means according to the level of stickiness selected by the stickiness level selection means.

The invention provides a cooking utensil which comprises a touch switch, a driving part and a controller. The touch switch is arranged on the body or a cover body of the cooking utensil and used for sending an uncovering signal. The driving part is used for driving the cover body to open. The controller is electrically connected with the touch switch and the driving part and used for receiving theuncovering signal and controlling the driving part to move so as to open the cover body. When a user touches the touch switch, the driving part is driven through the controller for uncovering, a locking structure is loosened and breaks away from a fastened position, accordingly automatic uncovering is achieved, and an uncovering button structure conventionally exposed on the appearance face of the product is omitted in the uncovering way, so that a whole interface of the product is simpler. In addition, in this uncovering way, an uncovering operation can be selected or not according to the working environments in the cooking utensil, for example, pressure intensity, the cooking utensil has higher safety, and especially the risk is prevented that the cooking utensil is forcedly uncovered due to misoperation of a user during under-pressure work and accordingly explodes and scalds a user.

A cooking device includes a base, a housing, partition walls, a lid, a control module, an exhaust module, a connecting electrode and a heating module. The exhaust module includes an air-filled element, an air-extraction element, an inlet passage and an exhaust passage. The air-extraction element is used to exhaust fog or oil fume generated in the plurality of inner pots. The connecting electrode is arranged in a middle position of the base. The heating module includes: bottom heating units disposed different locations inside a storage compartment of the housing respectively and connected with the processor individually; second heating units arranged on the partition walls and connected with the connecting electrode by wires inside the partition walls; and third heating units arranged on the inner wall of the housing.

An electric appliance for pressure cooking food includes a casing (1) and a lid (4) forming the outer jacket of the appliance, an outer vessel (2) forming the inner chamber of the appliance, a heating element (25) placed in the bottom of the outer vessel (2), a removable inner vessel (3) forming the container (30) for cooking food, wherein the inner vessel (3) includes at least one handhold (31) extending past the periphery of the casing (1).

A blend soup maker (100). Soup maker (100) comprises a jar (102) having an open top and an open bottom for holding food, a lid (104) for closing the open top of jar (102), a bottom cap (106) for closing the open bottom of jar (102), a blending blade (114) installed inside jar (102) for blending food, an electrical heating tube (116) fixedly installed on the bottom of jar (102) for heating food, a base support (112) disposed underneath jar (102) for supporting jar (102), a blending motor (124) installed inside support base (112) and removably coupled with blade (114) for driving blade (114) to blend food, and a support member (110) engaged with the lower portion of jar (102) for adapting jar (102) to stand on base support (112).

The invention discloses a multifunctional pot. The pot includes a housing, a heating element heat conduction disk and a pot body, a liner is arranged in the housing, and the upper end of the housing is connected with the upper end of the liner; the heating element heat conduction disk is arranged in the liner, the height of the heating element heat conduction disk is lower than the depth of the liner, a bottom heating element is arranged at the outer bottom of the heating element heat conduction disk, an annular heating element is arranged on the outer side wall of the heating element heat conduction disk, and the bottom heating element and the annular heating element are in series connection and are electrically connected to a working circuit of the multifunctional pot; the pot body is arranged on the heating element heat conduction disk, the inner wall of the heating element heat conduction disk is in contact with the outer wall of the pot body, and the height of the pot body is larger than the depth of the heating element heat conduction disk. The heating element heat conduction disk of the multifunctional pot directly heats the pot body evenly, the inner wall of the heating element heat conduction disk can be in close contact with the outer wall of the pot body, hence, most of heat can be transmitted to the pot body, the liner can effectively keep the heating element from transmitting heat to the outside world, the heat loss is small, and the energy utilization rate is high.

The invention relates to a method for controlling a rice pressure cooker comprising a housing (10) closed by a cover (12), said housing (10) being provided with heating means (17, 18, 19), a controlled purge valve (20) and a temperature sensor (15), said method being characterised in that it comprises: a steeping step during which the purge valve (20) is kept open and the heating means (17, 18, 19) are controlled so as to keep the container (11) at a temperature of between 60 DEG C and 85 DEG C for a determined period of steeping time of between 30 minutes and 1.5 hours; a heating step starting at the end of the determined period of steeping time, during which the heating means (17, 18, 19) are controlled so as to obtain a determined nominal temperature of between 100 and 120 DEG C inside the container (11); ; and a cooking step starting as soon as the nominal temperature is reached, during which the heating means (17, 18, 19) are controlled so as to keep the container (11) at the nominal temperature for a determined period of time of between 20 minutes and 40 minutes.

An Autonomous apparatus for cooking food having a base body (14) with a main heating element (18), a lid (15) which can be associated with the base body (14) in at least two positions and inside which a secondary heating element (19) is installed and possible heat transfer and / or ventilation means (20), and a mixing device (28). The base body (14) supports and positions one of a removable container (11), said lid (15), and / or said container (11), in correspondence with a respective coupling edge, comprising at least an airtight packing (21) to define a cooking chamber (16) with a desired steam pressure. Said lid (15) has a single size with airtight packings (21) suitable to cooperate with different sizes of the container (11) and / or of one container (11) having different heights with respect to said base body (14).