Patent ID: 9113741
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for cooking portioned food pieces in batches, comprising: a storage container for accommodating the uncooked items of food to be cooked; a portioning apparatus for removing a portion of uncooked food pieces from the storage container; a cooking chamber for cooking the portion of uncooked food pieces, having a water removal chamber, which is arranged beneath the cooking chamber, for removing water from the portion of cooked food pieces, it being possible for the cooking chamber and the water removal chamber to be connected to one another via the closable cooking chamber outlet, having a heating chamber separated from the cooking chamber; a fresh water tank, separated from the heating chamber, for accommodating fresh water for preparing at least one portion of food pieces, with the fresh water tank being connected to the heating chamber in order to fill said heating chamber with fresh water and with the heating chamber being connected to the cooking chamber in order to fill said cooking chamber with preheated fresh water, wherein a volume of the fresh water tank is greater than a volume of the heating chamber; a wastewater tank, to which the wastewater outlet is connected, for accommodating the hot wastewater from the water removal chamber, with a volume of the wastewater tank being of such a magnitude that at least the wastewater which is produced during the preparation of a portion of food pieces can be removed from the water removal chamber, and the wastewater tank and the fresh water tank are configured to allow the fresh water in the fresh water tank to be preheated by the hot wastewater in the wastewater tank a fresh water heating element in the fresh water tank for preheating the fresh water; a wastewater temperature measuring device for detecting the wastewater temperature in the wastewater tank; a wastewater filling level measuring device for detecting the quantity of wastewater in the waste water tank; a fresh water filling level measuring device for detecting the quantity of fresh water in the fresh water tank; a switchable wastewater tank outlet for switchably expelling the wastewater from the wastewater tank; and a fresh water tank inlet for switchably admitting fresh water into the fresh water tank and, with the wastewater temperature measuring device, the wastewater filling level measuring device, the wastewater tank outlet, the fresh water filling level measuring device, the fresh water tank inlet being configured so that the quantity of fresh water in the fresh water tank or the quantity of wastewater in the wastewater tank is dependent on the wastewater temperature in the wastewater tank.