Cooking apparatus
AssigneeKajiwara Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTokuji Kajiwara
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Abstract
A cooking apparatus has a cooking vessel (1), a bottom heater (3) for heating the bottom (13) of the cooking vessel, a heat exchanging jacket (5) for passing steam to exchange heat with the body of the cooking vessel, a fluid source (7) for supplying and draining the steam to and from the heat exchanging jacket, a weighing unit (9) for detecting the gross weight of the cooking vessel and heat exchanging jacket, a memory (11) for storing a reference weight change corresponding to a water-content change, and a controller (11) for controlling the bottom heater and fluid source to attain the reference weight change.
Claims6
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a cooking vessel for receiving and cooking food materials;
- bottom heating means arranged under the bottom of the cooking vessel, for heating the bottom of the cooking vessel at high temperatures with any one of a gas heater, an electromagnetic induction heater, and an electric heater;
- a heat exchanging jacket arranged along the body of the cooking vessel and defining a closed space for passing steam to exchange heat with the body of the cooking vessel;
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- a fluid source for supplying and draining the steam to and from the heat exchanging jacket,
- the bottom heating means and the fluid source being separately controlled.
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a cooking vessel for receiving and cooking food materials;
- bottom heating means arranged under the bottom of the cooking vessel, for heating the bottom of the cooking vessel;
- a heat exchanging jacket arranged along the body of the cooking vessel and defining a closed space for passing a thermal fluid to exchange heat with the body of the cooking vessel;
- a fluid source for supplying and draining the thermal fluid to and from the heat exchanging jacket;
- weighing means for supporting at least the cooking vessel and heat exchanging jacket and detecting the gross weight of at least the cooking vessel and heat exchanging jacket;
- memory means for storing a reference weight change corresponding to a water-content change to attain a target cooked state of the food materials;
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- control means for controlling at least the bottom heating means according to the detected gross weight and the reference weight change.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.