Patent ID: 8420983

Claim:
A vapor cooker comprising: a vapor generation heater configured to generate vapor; and a vapor heating heater configured to heat the vapor generated by the vapor generation heater to generate overheated vapor and configured to heat vapor in a heating chamber through circulation, wherein the vapor cooker comprises: a first cooking state in which the article-to-be-heated is cooked with supply of electric power to the vapor generation heater being larger than supply of electric power to the vapor heating heater; and a second cooking state in which the article-to-be-heated is cooked with supply of electric power to the vapor generation heater being smaller than supply of electric power to the vapor heating heater, wherein the vapor cooker stores a cooking menu corresponding to the kind of the article-to-be-heated and cooking sequence data corresponding to the cooking menu, and holds data, corresponding to the kind of the article-to-be-heated, of when an internal temperature of the article-to-be-heated exceeds a fat melting temperature zone, but is less than or equal to 100° C. and hence when to switched from the first cooking state to the second cook state, and wherein the first cooking state is switched to the second cooking state based on the data.