Transporting element for accommodating and transporting spherical, cylindrical or egg-shaped articles, and a cooking appliance, pasteurizer or cooling unit

A cooking appliance, pasteurizer or cooling unit, comprising:

• a cooking, pasteurizing or cooling space in which a conveying route is arranged, along which a spherical, cylindrical or egg-shaped foodstuff to be conveyed is transported in its entirety in a horizontally progressing manner, but meandering upwardly and downwardly, on transporting elements mounted in the conveying route,
• wherein each of the transporting elements comprises
• a channel-like body having an accommodating space curved in a form of part of a circle, as seen in cross-section, and enclosing an angle of at least 180°;
• several bearing points arranged adjacent to each other in a longitudinal extension of the channel-like body, wherein the bearing points are slot-shaped apertures arranged in a region of the channel-like body that is curved in the form of part of a circle, the slot-shaped apertures extending in parallel to each other and transversely to the longitudinal extension of the channel-like body on either side up to longitudinal crosspieces forming a respective longitudinal edge,
• wherein each of the transporting elements is pivotably mounted approximately 180° about a pivot axis oriented transversely to the conveying direction.