Induction heating cooking device

An induction heating cooking device comprising:

• a top plate that is partially or entirely made of a material capable of transmitting infrared radiation, a cooking container being placed on the top plate;
• a heating coil that induction-heats the cooking container;
• an infrared sensor that detects infrared radiation which is emitted from a bottom surface of the cooking container faced to the heating coil and is passed through the top plate, and that outputs a detection signal based on the quantity of energy of the detected infrared radiation;
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• a heating control section that controls supply of electric power to the heating coil by flowing a high-frequency electric current through the heating coil based on temperature of the bottom surface of the cooking container which is detected by the detection signal;
• wherein, when the temperature of the bottom surface of the cooking container is equal to or higher than a first predetermined temperature which is higher than 230 degrees C., the infrared sensor outputs the detection signal having output values increasing as the bottom-surface temperature increases, and when the bottom-surface temperature is lower than the first predetermined temperature, the infrared sensor does not output the detection signal substantially, and
• the heating control section reduces or stops the electric power supplied to the heating coil when the bottom-surface temperature of the cooking container detected by the infrared sensor is equal to or higher than a second predetermined temperature which is higher than the first predetermined temperature and is lower than an ignition temperature of oil.