Oven cooking monitor for uniformly cooking a plurality of food items requiring different cooking times
US4036995A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 29, 1975 |
| Grant date | Jul 19, 1977 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 29, 1995 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01K2207/06
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An oven cooking monitor and method automatically control the cooking, to a selected degree of doneness, of a plurality of food times requiring different cooking times, thereby permitting the food items to be loaded into the oven in random size order and to be removed in the order in which they become done. In restaurant or fast food cooking a number of different roasts of beef of different sizes often are placed in an oven to be cooked to a uniform degree of doneness, or roasts of similar or different size are placed in an oven at different times. Uniform cooking, without overcooking, is achieved through the present invention by providing a separate disconnectable probe for each food item to generate a signal varying with the temperature sensed by each probe. A reference temperature signal is set to correspond to a desired degree of doneness, and the sensed temperature signal and reference temperature signal are compared, yielding an output signal when the sensed and reference temperatures match. When an output signal is generated to indicate that one of the food items has reached the desired degree of doneness, the monitor indicates the particular probe associated with the done fo…
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