Countertop cooking system
AssigneeSharkNinja Operating LLC
InventorsEthan S. Kramer, Abhilash Shah, Ethan T. Brown, Joshua D. Anthony, Linden Zlotea
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Abstract
A cooking system positionable on a support surface includes a housing having a hollow chamber including an internal cooking chamber for receiving a food item, at least one radiative heating element arranged within the hollow interior and operable to heat said cooking chamber and a convection heater disposed within the hollow chamber and operable to heat the cooking chamber. The cooking system is operable in a convection cooking mode and during the convection cooking mode, the at least one radiative heating element is selectively energized.
Claims17
A method of operating a cooking system, the method comprising:
- preheating an internal cooking compartment of the cooking system, the cooking system comprising an air movement device, a first heating element, and a second heating element, wherein preheating the internal cooking compartment includes operating each of the first heating element and the air movement device at a first power level over a first predetermined time period;
- performing a first cooking segment by operating each of the second heating element and the air movement device at a second power level over a second predetermined time period;
- performing a second cooking segment by operating the first heating element at a third power level over a third predetermined time period;
- measuring a temperature within the internal cooking compartment;
- performing a comparison by comparing the measured temperature of the internal cooking compartment to a predetermined temperature condition;
- repeating at least one of the first cooking segment and the second cooking segment based on the comparison;
- performing a third cooking segment at a predetermined time instance by operating the second heating element at a fourth power level over a fourth predetermined time period;
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- reperforming the second cooking segment in response to a measurement of a food byproduct accumulation on the first heating element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.