Patent ID: 6965095

Claim:
A cooking system comprising: housing means defining an interior chamber, the housing means including an opening adapted to receive a food product into the interior chamber; door means adapted to selectively seal the opening; the housing means further defining a port adapted to matingly receive a removable heating element therethrough; and a control box including, a control box housing, an elongated, electrical resistance heating element secured to the control box housing so as to extend outwardly from an exterior therof, means adapted to selectively secure the control box housing to an exterior of the housing means such that the heating element is received through the port so as to extend into the interior chamber relatively proximate to a selected interior portion of the housing means, a motor, a mechanical coupling operatively engaged to the motor, which mechanical coupling is positioned so as to be adapted to provide a mechanical link therewith to an associated object disposed in the interior chamber, and means adapted to selectively receive electrical energy into the at least one of the heating element and the motor.