Patent ID: 8555777
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
1. A method of cooking a food product having a nominal initial uncooked thickness on a grill having first and second opposable platens, each platen having an opposable cooking surface, comprising: placing the food product on the first platen cooking surface, moving at least one of the platens so that the platen cooking surfaces are in an opposed relationship, the opposed cooking surfaces defining a gap spacing therebetween that is controllable and adjustable; communicating commands from a programmable controller to a drive mechanism operatively associated with at least one of the platens; and controlling and adjusting the gap spacing by the drive mechanism in response to the commands by moving the at least one platen with respect to the other platen to predetermined gap spacings stored in the programmable controller, so that during an initial stage of the cooking the gap spacing is less than the nominal initial uncooked thickness of the food product and during a secondary stage of the cooking, after the initial stage of the cooking, the gap spacing between the platens is increased but is still less than the nominal initial uncooked thickness of the food product.