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Cooking utensil for combined microwave and steam cooking

US4705927A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 14, 1986
Grant dateNov 10, 1987
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Expiry dateAug 14, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S99/14
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A novel and improved microwave oven cooking utensil wherein a water absorbing member generally underlies a microwave opaque cooking container such that food contained in the container may be cooked in a microwave oven through direct exposure to microwave radiation and indirect heating of the container by steam evolved from the water absorbing member upon simultaneous exposure thereof to microwave radiation.

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