Cooking appliance for meat and buns
OwnerGordon K. Russell, Clement Ching +1inventors
InventorsGordon K. Russell, Clement Ching, Kam Chuen Chan
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Abstract
An electric appliance, for cooking meat and buns simultaneously, has chambers for holding the meat and buns vertically, heating the meat on both sides and heating the bun on at least one side. The meat may be contained in a novel cage. The bun chamber may have one or two perforated plates for controlling the amount of radiant heat from impinging on the bun, thus affecting whether the bun is warmed or toasted.
Claims15
A cooking appliance for simultaneously heating at least one bread portion and at least one substantially flat food portion, said cooking appliance comprising:
- (a) at least one food chamber, where each chamber is for containing a flat two-sided food portion in a vertical position;
- (b) first electric element means for heating both sides of the food portion in each food chamber;
- (c) at least one bread chamber for containing a bread portion in a vertical position;
- (d) second electric element means for heating at least one vertical surface of the bread portion;
- (e) food support means for supporting the food portion in the food chamber in a position adjacent the first electric element means to allow heat from the first element means to impinge on the sides of the food portion;
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- (f) bread support means for supporting the bread portion in the bread chamber in a position adjacent the second element means to allow heat from the second element means to impinge on the vertical surfaces of the bread portions.
A cooking appliance for heating a food portion, said cooking appliance comprising:
- a) at least one chamber for containing a food portion;
- b) heating means for heating at least one side of the food portion;
- c) two plates, in face to face contact, each with perforations therein, said plates being placed between the heating means and the food portion;
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- d) control means for moving one of the plates relative to the other plate so that in a first position, perforations in both plates are in register and perforations in one plate are aligned and correspond to perforations in the other plate, and in a second position the perforations in both plates are not in register and perforations in one plate are not aligned and do not correspond to perforations in the other plate.
A removable cooking cage for holding food in a heating chamber of a cooking appliance, wherein the cage has a floor member with two longitudinal edges and a width between said longitudinal edges, a first and a second wall member, each wall member having first and second ends;
- the first ends of each wall member being hingedly attached to a longitudinal edge of the floor member, and the second ends of each wall member being able to be temporarily joined to one another with at least one releasable fastener;
- said wall members being shaped so that when both wall members are temporarily joined on one side of a plane through the width of the floor member, the distance between portions of the wall members is greater than the width of the floor member, and when both wall members are temporarily joined on the opposing side of the plane through the width of the floor member, the distance between said portions of the wall members in less than the width of the floor member;
- the wall members also being constructed to allow heat to reach food when the food is trapped between the wall members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.