Cooking system
AssigneeEuro-Pro Operating LLC
InventorsJon French, Aric Jennings, Jamie Paul Gagnon, Brian McGee, David M. Audette, Michael Joseph Smith, John Cheung, Joyce Chien Tu
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Abstract
A cooking system includes a housing and a liner with a bottom heating element and a side circumferential heating element in a plurality of segments electrically connected. A control subsystem includes a selector for the user switchable between slow cook and stove top modes. Both the bottom heating element and the side circumferential heating element are energized and in the stove top mode. Only the side circumferential heating element is energized in the slow cook mode.
Claims21
A cooking system comprising:
- a housing;
- a liner in the housing including:
- a bottom heating element, and
- a side circumferential heating element in a plurality of segments electrically connected;
- and
- a control subsystem including:
- a selector switchable between slow cook and stove top modes wherein both the bottom heating element and the side circumferential heating element are energized and in the stove top mode and the side circumferential heating element is energized and the bottom heating element is de-energized in the slow cook mode.
A cooking system comprising:
- a housing;
- a liner in the housing including:
- a bottom heating element, and
- a side circumferential heating element in a plurality of segments electrically connected;
- and
- a first switch for energizing the bottom heating element;
- a second switch for energizing the side heating element;
- and
- a controller responsive to a selector and configured to control the first and second switches according to a plurality of duty cycles.
A cooking system control method comprising:
- energizing both a bottom heating element and a side heating element in a stove top mode;
- energizing only the side heating element in a slow cook mode;
- in a first stove top selection, switching the bottom and side heating elements on and off according to one or more higher duty cycles;
- and
- in a second stove top selection, switching the bottom and side heating elements on and off according to one more lower duty cycles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.