Automated countertop egg cooker
AssigneeBridge Appliances, Inc.
InventorsLance Lentini, Ivan Galic, Keller Waldron, Connor White, Thomas M. O'Brien
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Abstract
Provided are kitchen devices for cooking eggs using various cooking methods. For example, kitchen devices provided herein comprise a storage component configured to store a plurality of raw eggs, a cracking component configured receive a raw egg of the plurality of raw eggs from the storage component and crack the raw egg, forming a cracked egg, a cooking component configured to receive the cracked egg from the cracking component and cook the cracked egg, forming a cooked egg, and a warming component configured to receive the cooked egg from the cooking component and warm the cooked egg.
Claims20
A method of cooking eggs with a device, the method comprising:
- transferring an egg from a storage component of the device to a cracking component of the device such that the egg is positioned between a pusher and a sharp object of the cracking component;
- advancing the pusher in a first direction to push the egg in position for cracking;
- cracking the egg with the sharp object;
- separating a shell of the cracked egg from an egg white and yolk of the cracked egg;
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- cooking the egg white and yolk of the cracked egg in the device.
A device for cooking eggs, the device comprising:
- a storage compartment configured to hold a plurality of eggs;
- a cracking component comprising:
- a pusher configured to advance in a first direction, and
- a sharp object comprising at least two components configured to spread apart in a direction that is perpendicular to the first direction,
- wherein the cracking component is configured to receive at least one egg from the storage compartment such that the at least one egg is positioned between the pusher and the sharp object and the cracking component is configured to crack the at least one egg with the sharp object and to separate the at least two components of the sharp object to separate a shell of the at least one cracked egg from the egg white and yolk of the at least one cracked egg;
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- a cooking component configured to receive the egg white and yolk from the cracking component and to cook the egg white and yolk on one or more temperature-controlled hot plates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.