Patent ID: 9546790
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: F24C

Claim:
1. A method of operating a gas oven appliance having a cooking chamber, the gas oven appliance having a maximum rate of heating, HMAX, the method comprising the steps of: opening a valve to preheat the cooking chamber at the maximum rate of heating, HMAX, until at least a temperature T closing the valve partially or completely until the temperature in the cooking chamber decreases to at least a temperature T cycling the valve between a higher gas flow rate setting and a lower gas flow rate setting or an off setting so as to heat the cooking chamber at a rate of heating HCK that is less than the maximum rate of heating HMAX, the step of cycling continuing until the temperature of the cooking chamber increases to at least a temperature T shutting the valve partially or completely so as to provide a lower rate of heating that is less than HMAX while the cooking chamber decreases to at least the temperature T