Patent ID: 6631710
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: F24C

Abstract:
A method of cooking in a pyrolytically self-cleaning baking oven and of subsequent cleaning of the pyrolytically self-cleaning baking oven and of baking oven accessories and baking oven cooking vessels used during cooking in the self-cleaning baking oven, said method comprising the steps of:a) providing a baking oven accessory and a baking oven cooking vessel for cooking in the self-cleaning baking oven, said baking oven accessory and said baking oven cooking vessel both consisting of glass-ceramic material having as little surface porosity as possible, a thermal expansion coefficient of less than or equal to 3Ã—10âˆ’6/K, a specific thermal stress of less than 0.25 MPa/K with a temperature stability of greater than 500Â° C. or of a specific thermal stress of less than 0.23 MPa/K with a temperature stability of greater than 550Â° C.; b) cooking in said self-cleaning oven with said baking oven accessory and said baking oven cooking vessel provided in step a); and c) pyrolytically self-cleaning said self-cleaning baking oven with said baking oven accessory and said baking oven cooking vessel within said self-cleaning baking oven during said self-cleaning so as to self-clean said baking oven accessory and said baking oven cooking vessel; whereby separate manual cleaning of said baking oven accessory and said baking oven cooking vessel is unnecessary.