Method for simultaneously toasting bread and steaming
AssigneeBack to Basics Products, Inc.
InventorsDavid Ely, Brian K. Beesley, Alan Parkinson, Claude Brandt
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Abstract
A method for toasting bread and simultaneously cooking or warming another food with a single device, comprising the steps of: inserting at least one piece of bread into a vertically oriented bread slot of a combination bread toaster and steamer device; placing water into a heater pan of a steamer compartment on the combination bread toaster and steamer device; placing another food into the steamer compartment; and activating at least one heating element associated with the bread slot and the steamer compartment
Claims20
A method for toasting bread and simultaneously cooking or warming another food with a single device, comprising:
- inserting at least one piece of bread into a bread slot of a combination bread toaster and steamer device;
- placing water into a heater pan of a steamer compartment on the combination bread toaster and steamer device;
- placing another food into the steamer compartment;
- and
- activating a single input on the combination bread toaster and steamer device that activates a controller that initially activates a steamer heating element associated with the steamer compartment and subsequently and automatically activates a bread heating element associated with the bread slot.
A method for toasting bread and simultaneously cooking or warming another food with a single device, comprising:
- inserting at least one piece of bread into a bread slot of a combination bread toaster and steamer device;
- placing water into a heater pan of a steamer compartment on the combination bread toaster and steamer device;
- placing another food into the steamer compartment;
- and
- activating only a single input on the combination bread toaster and steamer device that activates a steamer heating element associated with the steamer compartment and activates a bread heating element associated with the bread slot.
A method for toasting bread and simultaneously cooking or warming another food with a single device, comprising:
- inserting at least one piece of bread into a bread slot of a combination bread toaster and steamer device;
- placing water into a heater pan of a steamer compartment on the combination bread toaster and steamer device;
- placing at least an egg white from an opened egg shell into an egg cup;
- placing the egg cup in the steamer compartment over the heater pan;
- placing meat on a meat tray;
- placing the meat tray in the steamer compartment over the heater pan;
- and
- activating at least one heating element associated with the bread slot and the steamer compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.