Pyrolytic self-cleaning gas oven
AssigneeMaytag Corporation
InventorsIssac P. Sargunam, Joseph E. Kelley, Richard J. Arntz
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Abstract
A method and device for cleaning the oven cavity of a pyrolytic self-cleaning oven without using a broil element or burner. The method includes using a bake burner to maintain the temperature of the oven cavity during the first stage of the self-cleaning process at a temperature sufficiently low such that cooking residues are baked onto the oven walls and bottom without producing excessive levels of smoke. During the second stage of the self-cleaning process, the temperature inside the oven cavity is raised to clean away the baked-on residues while still maintaining acceptable levels of smoke.
Claims10
A method for cleaning a cooking cavity of a gas oven having an oven bottom solely through use of a bake burner, the method comprising:
- activating the bake burner;
- maintaining the temperature of the oven bottom using the bake burner below a first predetermined temperature not to exceed about 500.degree. F. for a first predetermined time;
- raising the temperature of the oven bottom and the cooking cavity using the bake burner to a second predetermined temperature above about 825.degree. F.;
- and
- deactivating the bake burner after a second predetermined time.
A method for cleaning a cooking cavity of a pyrolytic gas oven having an oven bottom solely through use of a bake burner, the method comprising:
- activating the bake burner;
- cycling the bake burner on and off to maintain the temperature of the oven bottom at or below a first predetermined temperature not to exceed about 500.degree. F. for a first predetermined time;
- raising the temperature of the oven bottom and the cooking cavity using the bake burner to a second predetermined temperature above about 825.degree. F.;
- and
- deactivating the bake burner after a second predetermined time.
A self-cleaning gas oven comprising:
- a cooking cabinet having a cooking cavity housed therein;
- a bake burner housed within the cooking cavity;
- a control panel for controlling the bake burner;
- and
- a control interfacing with the control panel for performing the steps of activating the bake burner, maintaining the temperature of the cooking cavity using the bake burner below approximately 500.degree. F. for a first predetermined time, raising the temperature of the cooking cavity using the bake burner to at least approximately 825.degree. F., and deactivating the bake burner after a second predetermined time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.