High speed baking in novel toasting apparatus
AssigneeEdgecraft Corporation
InventorDaniel D. Friel, Sr.
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Abstract
An electric baking oven includes an open mesh vertically oriented baking basket to hold food while the food is baked in air by a programmed combination of radiant and convective and conductive energy transfer. An electrical programming control controls the energy from vertically oriented toaster heating elements located juxtaposed to the large vertical faces of the basket and from at least one elongated heating member located below the vertical baking basket with the axis of the elongated heating member oriented nominally horizontal and parallel to the longer horizontal axis of the vertically oriented baking basket.
Claims16
A method of baking a food item comprising providing an oven having a housing with a heating zone in the interior of the housing and with an unheated waiting zone in the housing separate from the heating zone, providing an open mesh baking basket having a pair of open mesh side walls, placing a food item in the baking basket, placing the baking basket in the waiting zone, heating the heating zone by at least one heater member at the bottom of the heating zone and by at least one heater element at a location above the heater member in the heating zone, maintaining the baking basket in the waiting zone until a predetermined temperature is reached in the heating zone, lowering the baking basket into the heating zone when the predetermined temperature is reached with the heating element located juxtaposed at least one vertical mesh side of the baking basket and with the heater member located below the baking basket, removing the baking basket from the heating zone after the food item has been baked, and then removing the food item from the baking basket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.