Patent ID: 6146678
Filing Date: 2000-11-14
Classification: A21B,A23L

Abstract:
A method of cooking food products by impinging a process vapor on the products, comprising the steps of providing an oven including a housing having an inlet for food products tobe cooked in the oven and an outlet for emitting food products from the oven thereby defining a food product travel path, passing food products into the housing upon a conveyor of generally permeable construction, impinging a cooking process vapor upon the food products from above and from below the conveyor from a plurality of vapor emitters, spaced apart along and extending laterally of the product travel path for a treatment time within the oven,recirculating the process vapor first between adjacent vapor emitters and laterally of the product travel path, and then longitudinally of the travel path towards one end of the oven housing, heating the process vapor as it courses longitudinally of the product travel path, providing blower fans with intakes arranged laterally of the travel path and disposed at the oven end, causing the process vapor to move through the fan intakes and thence into the vapor emitters and removing the cooked food products from the housing and the conveyor.