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US 2015/0030728 A1Published application
Combination Oven with Reduced Smoke Flavor Transfer
AssigneeAlto-Shaam, Inc.
InventorsJ.K. Raghavan, Janus Bartelick, Joshua Paul Wittig
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Abstract
A combination oven for cooking with heat and steam provides a boiler system for creating steam and includes a smoker appliance for generating smoke flavor during the cooking process. An oven controller detecting the use of the smoke appliance institutes a flushing and filling of the boiler after such use to reduce the transfer of smoke flavors to food that is subsequently cooked in the oven.
Claims11
A combination oven comprising:
- an insulated housing including a door closing to define an interior cooking cavity and opening to provide access to the cooking cavity;
- a cooking cavity heater communicating with the cooking cavity to heat the cooking cavity;
- a boiler chamber defining a volume for holding water and providing a port communicating between the volume and the cooking cavity;
- a boiler heater positioned to heat water in the volume of the boiler chamber;
- an electronically actuable water valve communicating between a water source and the boiler chamber to provide water thereto;
- an electronically actuable drain valve communicating between the boiler chamber and a drain;
- a smoker appliance electronically controllable to introduce a vaporizable smoke material into the cooking cavity;
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- an electronic computer communicating with the water valve, drain valve, and smoker appliance and executing a program stored in memory to activate the smoker appliance during a cooking cycle and, based on activation of the smoker appliance, to activate the water valve and drain valve after the cooking cycle to flush and refill the boiler chamber.
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A method for operating a combination oven of a type having:
- an insulated housing including a door closing to define an interior cooking cavity and opening to provide access to the cooking cavity;
- a cooking cavity heater communicating with the cooking cavity to heat the cooking cavity;
- a boiler chamber defining a volume for holding water and providing a port communicating between the volume and the cooking cavity;
- a boiler heater positioned to heat water in the volume of the boiler chamber;
- an electronically actuable water valve communicating between a water source and the boiler chamber to provide water thereto;
- an electronically actuable drain valve communicating between the boiler chamber and a drain;
- a smoker appliance electronically controllable to introduce a vaporizable smoke material into the cooking cavity;
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- an electronic computer communicating with the water valve, drain valve, and smoker appliance, the method comprising the steps of executing a stored program on the electronic computer to:
- (a) activate the smoker appliance during a cooking cycle;
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- (b) based on activation of the smoker appliance, activating the water valve and drain valve after the cooking cycle to flush and refill the boiler chamber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.