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US 5,588,352 AGranted
Appliance for making yeast doughs and cooking bagels
AssigneePMI International Corporation
InventorRobert G. Harrison
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Abstract
An appliance which includes a casing divided into one zone in which uncooked bagels can be boiled and a second zone for subsequently baking the boiled bagels. The same appliance can also be used to make bagel doughs and other yeast doughs. In the dough making mode, a bagel rack and its support are removed from the casing and replaced with a dough container and a dough mixing and kneading blade.
Claims18
A bagel dough making and bagel cooking appliance which comprises:
- a casing;
- a boiler zone in said casing;
- a first heating means for boiling water in said boiling zone;
- an oven zone in the casing;
- a second heating means in said oven zone;
- a bagel support means which is installable in and removable from said casing;
- a user-actuatable means for shifting said bagel support means to said boiler zone to boil bagels supported on said bagel support means and for shifting said bagel support means to the oven zone to bake the boiled bagels;
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- dough making means installable in and removable from said casing.
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A dough making and cooking appliance which comprises:
- an external casing;
- a container in which dough can be made, said container being installable in and removable from said casing;
- dough mixing and kneading means installable in said dough container;
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- means for cooking dough placed in said appliance subsequent to the removal of said dough container and said dough mixing and kneading means from said casing, said cooking means comprising means providing a boiling zone and said boiling zone being defined by an inner casing for holding water in which dough can be boiled;
- said inner casing being permanently installed in said outer casing and having a lower end;
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- said cooking means further comprising a boiling zone heater mounted in said external casing beneath the lower end of the inner casing.
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A dough making and cooking appliance which comprises:
- an external casing;
- a container in which dough can be made, said container being installable in and removable from said casing;
- dough mixing and kneading means installable in said dough container;
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- means for cooking dough placed in said appliance subsequent to the removal of said dough container and said dough mixing and kneading means from said casing;
- said appliance also comprising a second, non-removable inner casing which has first and second cooking zones and is configured to have said dough container installed therein and said cooking means comprising independently operable, first and second heating means for said first and second cooking zones and means for supporting dough in said inner casing;
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- said appliance further comprising means operable from the exterior of the external casing for shifting the support means between said first and second cooking zones.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.