Cooker/rethermalizer

Details Cooker/rethermalizer Cooker/rethermalizer

1995-01-27

1996-07-23

Walberg, Teresa J.

Electric heating

Heating devices

Combined with container, enclosure, or support for material...

219438, 392449, 392459, 99330, F24H 106

Patent

active

055391850

ABSTRACT:
A food cooker/rethermalizer especially suited for cooking or for reheating of prepared, packaged meat and sauce entree items, and optionally for cooking vegetables. The apparatus includes a multiple of food item receiving locations defined by a locator rack, and fluid ejecting tubes beneath the locations to eject fluid such as air therefrom, which rises over the package surfaces for bath mixing and efficient and uniform heat transfer. The tubes include a pair of upwardly sloped conduits oriented in opposite directions and which eject fluid at the upper ends of the tubes, on opposite sides of the bath, to cause circulation of the heated liquid bath. The bath is heated by resistance coils embedded in rubber bonded to the outside of the vessel. The bath level is controlled by a dual temperature sensor device, one sensor above the other, to detect a predetermined temperature differential and activate a water supply valve to inject only small quantities of water. The heating chamber is separated from the electronics control chamber by a space which has a thermally generated convection cooling action. The defined locations of the locator rack have a geometric arrangement matching the geometric arrangement of controls on a control panel.
If the unit is used to cook pasta, the rising fluid not only assists with bath mixing and cooking action, but also keeps the pasta from sticking together, while the sloped ejection tubes of the basket function to eject starch floating on the bath out of the vessel.

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