Oven appliance utensil drying
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsJihwan Kim, Hanul Kim, MyungGeon Chung
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Abstract
An oven appliance includes a cabinet, a cooking chamber defined within the cabinet for cooking food items therein, and a heating element in thermal communication with the cooking chamber for providing cooking energy to the cooking chamber. A method may include performing a cooking operation in the oven appliance. The cooking operation may include activating the heating element to provide cooking energy to the cooking chamber. The method may also include receiving the utensil in the cooking chamber of the oven appliance after the cooking operation, whereby the utensil is dried in the cooking chamber of the oven appliance.
Claims19
A method of operating an oven appliance, the oven appliance comprising a cabinet, a cooking chamber defined within the cabinet for cooking food items therein, and a heating element in thermal communication with the cooking chamber for providing cooking energy to the cooking chamber, the method comprising:
- performing a cooking operation in the oven appliance, the cooking operation comprising activating the heating element to provide cooking energy to the cooking chamber;
- transmitting, from the oven appliance, a notification to a household appliance after performing the cooking operation;
- detecting, by the household appliance, a presence of a utensil;
- and
- receiving the detected utensil in the cooking chamber of the oven appliance, whereby the utensil is dried in the cooking chamber of the oven appliance.
A method of drying a utensil in an oven appliance, the oven appliance comprising a cabinet, a cooking chamber defined within the cabinet for cooking food items therein, and a heating element in thermal communication with the cooking chamber for providing cooking energy to the cooking chamber, the method comprising:
- performing a cooking operation in the oven appliance, the cooking operation comprising activating the heating element to provide cooking energy to the cooking chamber;
- and
- receiving the utensil in the cooking chamber of the oven appliance after the cooking operation, whereby the utensil is dried in the cooking chamber of the oven appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.