Patent ID: 6060701
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: F24C,H05B

Abstract:
A compact quick-cooking convectional oven for cooking a food product at least partially by hot gas flow, comprising:(A) a compact housing defining a quick-cooking cooking chamber having a top, a bottom and support means therebetween for receiving a food product for cooking, and conduit means for providing gaseous communication outside of said cooking chamber, between said chamber bottom and said chamber top, said conduit means also serving as a hot gas plenum having a free volume of space less than the free volume of space of said cooking chamber;(B) associated with said cooking chamber, directing means for directing the gas from said conduit means onto the food product in said cooking chamber, and return means to direct the gas from said cooking chamber into said conduit means;(C) associated with said conduit means, a thermal energy source for heating gas disposed in said conduit means;(D) flow means for causing a flow of gas between said return means and said directing means via said conduit means; and(E) control means for independently varying at least one of the effective volumetric flow rate of said gas flow into said cooking chamber and the temperature of said gas flow into said cooking chamber, without regard to humidity and without human intervention.