Patent ID: 8893705

Claim:
A method of speed cooking a food product with gas, comprising: providing a housing defining a cavity comprising a cooking chamber having a top wall, a bottom wall, and opposing left and right sides defined by left and right gas discharge plates positioned alongside opposite left and right side walls defining the cavity, said left and right discharge plates having gas discharge apertures directed in downwardly convergent directions, at least one upper gas accelerator, and a cooking rack in the cooking chamber; introducing gas into the cooking chamber through the gas discharge apertures in the left and right gas discharge plates and causing the gas to accelerate at a high velocity such that gas entering the cooking chamber through the gas discharge apertures is directed in downwardly convergent directions from the left and right sides of the cooking chamber toward food product on the cooking rack in the cooking chamber; and cooking food product in the cooking chamber by turbulently colliding the downwardly converging gas in close proximity to the food product.