Patent ID: 9119402
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: A21B

Abstract:
1. In a cooking apparatus including a cooking chamber, a vapor outlet channel for vapors created in the cooking chamber, a vapor condensation device that brings the vapors into contact with cooling liquid, the vapor condensation device having a container in which a liquid bath is located, the vapor outlet channel carrying the vapors out of the cooking chamber into the container of the vapor condensation device, where the vapors are brought into contact with the liquid of the liquid bath and are thereby partially condensed, and a drain device, the improvement comprising the container of the vapor condensation device having a vapor guide element which guides the vapors through one or more open flow channels in the container, the vapor guide element being configured such that the upper surface of the liquid bath in the container is a lower wall of the one or more open flow channels along the entire flow length thereof and the vapor condensation device provides entirely above-liquid flow thereinto, therethrough and therefrom, the vapor guide element having a segment at its downstream outlet which does not extend through the surface of the liquid bath into the liquid but instead forms a passage above the upper surface of the liquid.