Cooking apparatus
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuichi Otsuki, Takahide Yamaguchi, Takahiro Hayashi, Seiichi Yamashita
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Abstract
Cooking apparatus (10) includes heating chamber (4) in which an object to be heated is rested, radiant heater unit (38) provided inside heating chamber (4) and operating in the preheating mode and cooking mode, and a control unit controlling radiant heater unit (38). The control unit is configured to make radiant heater unit (38) operate in the standby mode, which is a mode after the preheating mode ends and until the cooking mode starts. According to this aspect, the surface temperature of radiant heater unit (38) is kept at a high level during the standby mode to suppress uneven browning due to variations in the surface temperature of radiant heater unit (38) when cooking starts.
Claims2
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a heating chamber in which an object is rested;
- a radiant heater unit including a convection heater and a circulation fan that are provided inside the heating chamber, and configured to radiant-heat the object rested in the heating chamber by radiant heat;
- a convection device provided behind a back surface wall of the heating chamber, and configured to take in air inside the heating chamber, heat the air, and send out a hot airflow into the heating chamber;
- a fan drive unit configured to drive the circulation fan;
- and
- a control unit having a preheating mode and a cooking mode as heating modes, and configured to control the radiant heater unit and the convection device,
- wherein:
- the control unit is configured to start operating the radiant heater unit and the convection device simultaneously when the preheating mode starts,
- the control unit is configured to set a first output power of the radiant heater unit from among a plurality of output power values, a value of the first output power being different in response to a different starting temperature inside the heating chamber when the preheating mode starts,
- the control unit is configured to stop the convection device after a predetermined time since the preheating mode started, and
- the control unit is configured to continue to make the radiant heater unit operate without turning off the radiant heater unit during a period after the preheating mode ends and until cooking starts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.