Patent ID: 8776775
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: A47J,F24C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for cooking comprising: a cooking cavity for receiving a food item, said cooking cavity having a vertically extending interior surface which will surround and face said food item when said food item is received in said cooking cavity and a burner positioned within a bottom portion of said cooking cavity for delivering a combustion gas in said cooking cavity such that said combustion gas will flow upwardly in said cooking cavity and will heat said vertically extending interior surface of said cooking cavity so that infrared radiation will be emitted from said vertically extending interior surface of said cooking cavity, wherein, when said food item is positioned in said cooking cavity, at least a portion of said infrared radiation emitted from said vertically extending interior surface of said cooking cavity will be received from said vertically extending interior surface of said cooking cavity by said food item to heat said food item by radiant heat transfer, as said combustion gas flows upwardly in said cooking cavity, a portion of said combustion gas will also diffuse inwardly in said cooking cavity to contact and heat said food item by convective heat transfer, and said burner is configured and oriented for delivering said combustion gas in said cooking cavity to heat said vertically extending interior surface of said cooking cavity in a manner such that said apparatus will cook said food item in said cooking cavity predominantly by infrared radiation.