Slow cooker
AssigneeConair Corporation
InventorDavid Wanat
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Abstract
A slow cooker and method of cooking with a slow cooker is provided. The slow cooker has a base unit with a housing defining a heating chamber for heating and retaining a cooking basin placed therein, a lid for covering the cooking basin, and at least two cooking controls for controlling a time and a temperature for cooking at a first desired temperature and maintaining a cooked item at a second desired temperature. The method of cooking preferably includes at least two cooking controls cooperating to operate the slow cooker so that at the end of a cooking time at the first desired temperature set by the at least two cooking controls, the slow cooker operates to heat the cooking chamber to the second desired setting.
Claims21
A slow cooker comprising:
- a heating chamber;
- a heater for heating said heating chamber;
- and
- a plurality of cooking controls for separately controlling a cooking time, a cooking temperature and, in combination, controls a relationship between said cooking time and said cooking temperature.
A slow cooker comprising:
- a heating chamber;
- a heater for heating said heating chamber;
- a first control for selectively controlling said cooking time;
- and
- a second control for selectively controlling said cooking temperature, wherein said first and second controls control a cooking relationship between said cooking time and said cooking temperature to heat said heating chamber to a first desired temperature for a desired duration of time and, thereafter, maintain said heating chamber at a second desired temperature.
A method of cooking with a slow cooker, said method comprising:
- selectively setting a cooking time with a first cooking control;
- selectively setting a cooking temperature with a second cooking control;
- heating a heating chamber to said set cooking temperature for a duration of said set cooking time;
- and
- maintaining, in response to an end of said duration of said cooking time, of said heating chamber at a predetermined temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.