Steam cooking apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuzi Ando, Yuko Nakajima, Mari Terada, Rika Nozawa, Noriko Ohashi
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Abstract
A steam cooking apparatus having a steam generating device that generates steam to be fed to a heating chamber and a vapor heating heater that heats the steam generated by the steam generating device to provide superheated steam. The steam cooking apparatus includes a first heating mode using the superheated steam obtained from the vapor heating heater and a second heating mode using hot air or radiation heat obtained by using the vapor heating heater without use of the steam generating device so that the second heating mode produces heat without a supply of steam.
Claims13
A steam cooking apparatus comprising:
- a heating chamber in which food is placed;
- a steam generating device that generates steam to be fed to the heating chamber;
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- a vapor heating heater that heats the steam generated by the steam generating device;
- a control device for controlling the steam generating device to generate steam when the steam generating device is selected and for controlling the vapor heating heater heating the steam when the vapor heating heater is selected, wherein
- the control device controls a first heating mode in which steam is condensed on a surface of the food to produce condensed water so that the condensed water drips, along with a salt content around the surface of the food, down from the food, and
- the control device controls a second heating mode in which the food is baked or roasted to completion with hot air or radiation heat, and the first heating mode and the second heating mode are combined such that first the first heating mode and then the second heating mode are executed in that order by the control device
- so that the food is first subjected to salt content reduction and then baked or roasted to completion.
A steam cooking apparatus comprising:
- a heating chamber in which food is placed;
- a steam generating device that generates steam to be fed to the heating chamber;
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- a vapor heating heater that heats the steam generated by the steam generating device;
- a control device for controlling the steam generating device to generate steam when the steam generating device is selected and for controlling the vapor heating heater heating the steam when the vapor heating heater is selected, wherein
- the control device controls a first heating mode in which steam is condensed on a surface of the food to produce condensed water so that the condensed water drips, along with a fat content around the surface of the food, down from the food, and
- the control device controls a second heating mode in which the food is baked or roasted to completion with hot air or radiation heat, and the first heating mode and the second heating mode are combined such that first the first heating mode and then the second heating mode are executed in that order by the control device
- so that the food is first subjected to fat content reduction and then baked or roasted to completion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.