Method for cooking foods, and heating cooker

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9456624-B2
Application number	US-201314379551-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2013
Priority date	Mar 2, 2012
Publication date	Oct 4, 2016
Grant date	Oct 4, 2016

Abstract

PCI (Plasmacluster Ion) ions are released for approximately five minutes to a food such as vegetables, at a temperature of around 40° C. in a no-air flowing state and with no steam present.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A heating cooker comprising:
a heating cabinet;
heating means for heating a food in the heating cabinet;
selection means for selecting a cooking menu of a food in which the food is cooked at a temperature that allows vitamin C of the food to be increased;
ion species releasing means for releasing ion species that allow vitamin C to be increased in the food set in the heating cabinet; and
control means for controlling an inside temperature of the heating cabinet to the vitamin C-increasing temperature by the heating means, and also for driving the ion species releasing means, in a case when the selection means selects the cooking menu,
wherein the heating means includes,
steam heating means for heating with steam; and
non-steam heating means for heating without steam, and

wherein the control means drives the non-steam heating means to increase the temperature of the heating cabinet to the vitamin C-increasing temperature and the ion species releasing means without driving the steam heating means, and
wherein the heating cabinet includes a top plate, and the ion species releasing means is disposed at a center of the top plate.

2. The heating cooker as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the ion species releasing means releases the ion species in a downward direction into the heating chamber.

Assignees

• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Ueda Shinya
• Mineoka Tatsuya
• Sakane Yasuaki

Classifications

• A47J2027/043

  for cooking food in steam · CPC title

• F24C15/327

  with air moisturising · CPC title

• A47J27/04

  for cooking food in steam; Devices for extracting fruit juice by means of steam {; Vacuum cooking vessels (steam-heated vessels for hotels, restaurants or canteens A47J27/16)} · CPC title

• A23L5/15

  using wave energy, irradiation, electrical means or magnetic fields, e.g. oven cooking or roasting using radiant dry heat · CPC title

• F24C15/003

  moisturising of air · CPC title