Oven for cooking and flavoring meat products
AssigneeAlco Standard Corporation
InventorRobert J. Wenzel
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Abstract
A forced air convection oven for use by restaurants and delicatessens for cooking ribs and other meat products. Liquid smoke or other liquid flavoring agent is sucked from a container, is atomized and is sprayed into the cooking chamber of the oven to impart a desired flavor to the meat.
Claims8
An oven for cooking and flavoring meat products, said oven comprising a box-like cabinet having a top wall, a bottom wall, first and second opposing side walls and a rear wall, the front of said cabinet being open, a door connected to said cabinet and adapted to be moved between positions opening and closing the front of said cabinet, jacket means disposed in spaced opposing relation with the inner sides of said top, bottom and side walls and coacting with said rear wall and said door to define a cooking chamber within said cabinet, the outer sides of said jacket means coacting with the inner sides of said top, bottom and side walls to define an air circulation passage between such walls and said jacket means, an electric heating element disposed within said air circulation passage for heating the air in such passage, a fan disposed in said air circulation passage for circulating the heated air around said air circulation passage, a container located adjacent said cabinet and adapted to hold a liquid flavoring agent, and power-operated means for sucking the flavoring agent from said container, for atomizing the flavoring agent and for spraying the atomized flavoring agent into said cooking chamber.
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