Patent ID: 7507939

Claim:
Apparatus for cooking food products on both sides thereof, comprising a base member ( 2 ) associated to a bottom heating surface ( 3 ) adapted to support food products to be cooked, an upper member ( 4 ) associated to a top heating surface ( 5 ) and joined in an articulated manner to the base member ( 2 ) so that, when the upper member ( 4 ) is displaced towards the base member ( 2 ), the top heating surface ( 5 ) comes to lie opposite to the bottom heating surface ( 3 ) so as to enclose the food products therebetween, wherein the upper member ( 4 ) is adapted to close in onto the base member ( 2 ) so as to form a cooking cavity ( 6 ) containing said heating surfaces ( 3 , 5 ), the base member ( 2 ) comprising a microwave generator ( 7 ) adapted to irradiate the food products being enclosed between said heating surfaces ( 3 , 5 ), said cooking cavity ( 6 ) defining a radiation shield capable of retaining the microwaves inside said cooking cavity ( 6 ) itself, said microwave generator being coupled to waveguide means arranged below the bottom heating surface and adapted to guide the propoagation of the microwaves at and along the bottom heating surface, said bottom heating surface being adapted to let the microwave pass therethrough so as to hit the food products resting upon said bottom heating surface inside the cooking cavity, said bottom heating surface comprising a plurality of heating elements.