Patent ID: 7354612
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
1. A method of baking a food item comprising providing an oven having a housing with a heating zone in the interior of the housing and with an unheated waiting zone in the housing separate from the heating zone, providing an open mesh baking basket having a pair of open mesh side walls, placing a food item in the baking basket, placing the baking basket in the waiting zone, heating the heating zone by at least one heater member at the bottom of the heating zone and by at least one heater element at a location above the heater member in the heating zone, maintaining the baking basket in the waiting zone until a predetermined temperature is reached in the heating zone, lowering the baking basket into the heating zone when the predetermined temperature is reached with the heating element located juxtaposed at least one vertical mesh side of the baking basket and with the heater member located below the baking basket, removing the baking basket from the heating zone after the food item has been baked, and then removing the food item from the baking basket.