High speed baking in novel toasting apparatus
AssigneeEdgecraft Corporation
InventorDaniel D. Friel SR.
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Abstract
An electric baking oven includes an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket to hold food while the food is baked in air by a programmed combination of radiant and convective and conductive energy transfer. An electrical programming control controls the energy from vertically oriented toaster heating elements located juxtaposed to the large vertical faces of the basket and from at least one elongated heating member located below the vertical baking basket with the axis of the elongated heating member oriented nominally horizontal and parallel to the longer horizontal axis of the vertically oriented baking basket.
Claims16
A convertible electric baking oven for food items and a batch type toaster for sliced bread and the like comprising a heatable toasting zone, at least one heater in said toasting zone, a mobile normally open toasting basket to hold the bread slice, an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket having large vertical faces to hold the food items, each of said toasting basket and said baking basket being selectively removably mounted in an unheated waiting zone remote from toasting zone, a transport mechanism to transfer said basket from said waiting zone to said toasting zone, associated electrical and electronic controls designed to activate said heater while restraining motion of said transport mechanism in said waiting zone remote from said toasting zone until the temperature of said heater and the thermal conditions in said toasting zone have reached designated heating conditions and then direct said basket to enter and be held within said toasting zone until a heating cycle is complete.
A baking basket for holding items of food to be cooked in a baking oven, said baking basket comprising a pair of vertically disposed mesh side walls, said side walls being interconnected by a generally horizontal mesh bottom wall, a solid tray mounted below and spaced from and supporting said bottom wall, each of said mesh side walls being interconnected by a respective solid closed end wall, each of said end walls terminating at its top with a handle to facilitate the holding of said basket, each of said end walls having a mounting element for holding said side walls in an upright vertical position generally parallel to each other, said side walls being pivotally mounted at their lower ends to permit said side walls to be disposed in a generally aligned flat condition, each of said side walls having a cover lid at its upper end, said cover lids being disposed generally toward each other to create a top for said basket, and said cover lids being spaced from each other to leave an air gap for permitting hot air to escape out of the top of said basket.
A method of baking a food item comprising providing an oven having a housing with a heating zone in the interior of the housing and with an unheated waiting zone at the top of the housing, providing an open mesh baking basket having a pair of open mesh side walls, placing a food item in the baking basket, placing the baking basket in the waiting zone, heating the heating zone by vertically oriented heater elements in the heating zone and by at least one longitudinally disposed elongated heater member at the bottom of the heating zone, maintaining the baking basket in the waiting zone until a predetermined temperature is reached in the heating zone, lowering the baking basket into the heating zone when the predetermined temperature is reached with the vertically oriented heating elements located juxtaposed the vertical mesh sides of the baking basket and with the elongated heater member located below the baking basket, removing the baking basket from the heating zone after the food item has been baked, and then removing the food item from the baking basket.
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