Patent ID: 11910957
Assignee: HENNY PENNY CORPORATION
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 8:
9. A fryer for cooking food products, comprising:
a cooking chamber configured to hold a cooking medium;
a plurality of heating elements located within the cooking chamber; and
a controller including one or more processors and a memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing program code that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the fryer to:
selectively activate a first portion of the plurality of heating elements while a second portion of the plurality of heating elements is inactive,
selectively deactivate the first portion of the plurality of heating elements, and
selectively activate the second portion of the plurality of heating elements while the first portion of the plurality of heating elements is inactive,
wherein the program code is configured to cause the fryer to deactivate the first portion of the plurality of heating elements in response to a failure of a heating element of the first portion of the plurality of heating elements.