US 2017/0319006 A1 · HEATING COOKER

Abstract

Cooking is performed to serve tasty food by appropriately managing moisture of an object to be cooked without burning the surface thereof. A box-shaped housing, a cooking cavity for accommodating an object to be cooked, the cooking cavity being arranged within the housing, an upper-face heater and a lower-face heater arranged in the cooking cavity, a boiler arranged within the cooking cavity, a water tray formed outside the cooking cavity and into which a given amount of water that is entirely evaporated in a given steaming time is poured, a water guide passage within the housing, the water guide passage into which water is supplied from the water tray to the boiler; and a control unit for causing an operation to generate steam from the boiler to be performed for at least a steaming time from when cooking starts are provided.

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Dependent claims

A heating cooker comprising:

a box-shaped housing;
a cooking cavity for accommodating an object to be cooked, the cooking cavity being arranged within the housing;
a steam generator for feeding steam into the cooking cavity;
and
a control unit for filling inside of the cooking cavity with steam only in a given steaming time from when cooking starts, stopping steam at an earlier stage than when cooking ends, and finishing cooking only with a heater at a last stage.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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