Heating cooker provided with cooking container
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkira Kataoka, Masaki Shibuya
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Abstract
The heating cooker includes microwave generation devices that transfer microwaves to a cooking chamber, and a steam generation device that generates steam. The generated steam is guided to a first container, and a second container is provided on the first container. Then, a first foodstuff in the first container is heated by microwaves, and is also directly heated by the steam. A second foodstuff in the second container is heated by the microwaves, and is also indirectly heated by the steam. Accordingly, the heating cooker provided with cooking container capable of quickly heating a plurality of foodstuffs while improving the taste can be realized by using the heat of the microwaves and the steam.
Claims11
A heating cooker provided with cooking container, comprising:
- a cooking chamber provided inside a body of the heating cooker and having a door openably provided in a front opening part;
- a microwave generation device that transfer microwaves to the cooking chamber via a wave guide;
- a steam generation device installed in the body;
- a cooking-container mounting part provided in the cooking chamber;
- a steam discharge portion having a first end installed in the steam generation device and having a second end inserted into the cooking-container mounting part;
- a first cooking container accommodated in the cooking-container mounting part and accommodating a first foodstuff, and a first container lid covering an upper part of the first cooking container;
- a second cooking container provided close to the first cooking container, partitioned from the first cooking container and accommodating a second foodstuff;
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- an opening hole provided in the first cooking container and communicating between a space in the first cooking container and a space in the cooking-container mounting part,
- wherein the microwave generation device radiates the first cooking container and the second cooking container with the microwaves,
- the steam generation device introduces steam into the first cooking container via the opening hole, and
- the steam directly heats the first foodstuff accommodated in the first cooking container, and indirectly heats the second foodstuff accommodated in the second cooking container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.