Patent ID: 6083543
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
In an electrical thermostatic pressure cooker, a cooking control apparatus comprising:a menu button for selecting a cooking mode;a time setting button for setting a time period of a predetermined cooking operation depending on the cooking mode;a display means for displaying the cooking mode and an expected cooking time period;an alarm means for indicating a cooking ingredient input time point and a cooking completion time point;an electrically operated steam discharge valve for discharging pressurized steam from the cooker;a compulsory button for causing activation of the steam discharge valve for forcibly discharging pressurized steam when a pressure cooking mode is set; anda control means for controlling the display of the cooking mode selected with the menu button and the cooking time period selected with the time setting button in accordance with execution of a stored program for a pressure cooking mode and a frying cooking mode, controlling the alarm means to generate an alarm sound to notify a user of the cooking ingredient input time when a predetermined temperature is reached when in the frying cooking mode while executing a heating process, driving the steam discharge valve to automatically discharge the pressurized steam after a predetermined time point prior to completion of the cooking operation and to continuously discharge the pressurized steam when indicated by a compulsory steam discharge command when in the pressure cooking mode, and again controlling the alarm means to generate the alarm sound to notify the user that the cooking operation has been completed at the completion time point.