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

Claim 0:
1. 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 fryer has a peak production rate of cooked food products, and the program code causes the fryer to selectively activate one of the first portion or the second portion of the plurality of heating elements while the other of the first portion or the second portion of the plurality of heating elements is inactive in response to a demand for the cooked food products being below the peak production rate of cooked food products.