Patent ID: 7296510

Claim:
A cooking device comprising a box-shaped member, a heating chamber that is formed inside the box-shaped member to permit a cooking target to be placed therein, a first and a second heating device for heating the cooking target placed in the heating chamber, a reversibly rotatable fan for introducing hot air heated by the first and second heating devices into the heating chamber, a controller for controlling the first and second heating devices and the fan, a suction port formed in a wall surface of the heating chamber, a first and a second blowoff port formed respectively in wall surfaces of the heating chamber that are different from each other and different from the wall surface in which the suction port is formed, and a branch air-blow passage that branches air that has been sucked in via the suction port by rotation of the fan in a first blowoff port direction and a second blowoff port direction, wherein cooking is performed by a plurality of cooking methods as a result of the controller adjusting individually a rotation direction and a rotation rate of the fan, and thereby adjusting individually a wind volume of the air heated by the first heating device and introduced via the first blowoff port into the heating chamber by the fan and a wind volume of the air heated by the second heating device and introduced via the second blowoff port into the heating chamber by the fan.