Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Convertible
Patent
1996-04-15
1997-08-05
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Convertible
99400, 99401, 99444, 99447, 126 9R, 126 25R, 126 41R, A47J 3700
Patent
active
056531591
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a gas barbecue.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
For several years, efforts have been directed to finding a replacement for traditional wood- or charcoal-burning barbecues. Such barbecues are toxic for certain foods. Fat, for example from meat, drips during cooking onto the wood or charcoal fuel, where it is pyrolized to form--among other products--carcinogenic polyaromatics, such as benzopyrene A.
To overcome these drawbacks, barbecues have been proposed with vertical roasting. The meat (or any other food) is held vertically between two grids, the roasting being performed by two radiant heat sources arranged on either side of the grids.
Barbecues have also been proposed with overhead heating, i.e. the heat source being located above the food, which is cooked solely by radiation.
With such vertical or overhead barbecues, the fat does not drip onto the heat source(s), but into a cold zone and so does not decompose.
Nevertheless, these various barbecues look very different from conventional barbecues and are not considered by users as equivalent to traditional barbecues.
More recently, to overcome this disadvantage, a barbecue has been proposed comprising two radiant gas burners arranged laterally on either side and below a horizontal food support. The fat drips between the heat sources without decomposing. Furthermore, in operation such a barbecue has a similar appearance to a traditional barbecue.
This barbecue, however, has the drawback of not allowing deep cooking of foods. It only allows searing of the surface, whereas some foods, such as white meat and vegetables, need to be cooked deeply and evenly.
OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An aim of the present invention is to provide a barbecue which, while providing a more healthy cooking than that provided by traditional barbecues, allows the user to choose the type of cooking (deep or surface cooking) to be performed.
It is an object of the invention to provide a barbecue of the type comprising, on the one hand, a gridiron adapted to receive the food to be cooked, and, on the other hand, means for cooking the food. These cooking means are of the gas burner type. They comprise at least one radiant element, which is arranged laterally relative to a fat dripping zone. This radiant element is oriented such as to radiate towards the gridiron.
According to the invention, this barbecue is characterized in that the cooking means comprise at least one gas burner, as well as at least one deflection member for guiding the combustion fumes emitted by the gas burner, the gas burner and/or the radiant element being movable between a first relative position where they are opposite each other and where the radiant element is active and a second position where the radiant element is remote from the gas burner, the deflection member being movable between a first position where it guides, when the gas burner and the radiant member are in their second relative position, the combustion fumes towards the gridiron, and a second position where, when the radiant element and the burner are in their first relative position, the fumes are discharged for the most part without passing through the gridiron.
The gas burner is suitably of the blue flame type, in contradistinction to a radiant gas burner.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Other characteristics and advantages will appear from the following description of a particular embodiment of the invention. This description is given with reference to the attached drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a barbecue according to the particular embodiment;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the barbecue of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of a detail of FIG. 2.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The barbecue shown in these figures comprises more in particular a case 1 supported by four legs 2 and closed at its top by a gridiron 3. The case 1 and the legs 2 together constitute the mounting of the gridiron 3.
The case 1 has a substantially parallelepipe
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Le Strat Georges
Quemin Andre
Shell Research Limited
Simone Timothy F.
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