Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-16
2001-06-12
Alexander, Reginald L. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
C099S325000, C099S470000, C099S484000, C219S679000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06244165
ABSTRACT:
FIELD
The present invention concerns a device which can keep food cool in a certain volume and heat it in the same volume, and methods to make and use the same.
BACKGROUND
Bodily health is a legitimate concern of which more and more persons are becoming conscious, and in the majority of cases, in keeping with the maxim, you are what you eat, good nutrition is a necessary foundation to good health. In addressing the problem, the sensible approach would be to prepare nutritious foods by cooking the raw food as from “scratch.” However, as all too many people know by experience, today's fast-paced lifestyle can leave little time to prepare nutritious foods, and many persons resort to prepared foods, which require only heating, but of these, many are sorely deficient in adequate nutrition.
It would be desirable to be able to safely and efficiently prepare, in today's fast-paced lifestyles, nutritious foods. It would be further desirable to have flexibility in the same, and to be able to keep the food so prepared, before or even after its preparation, palatable and relatively safe from spoilage.
SUMMARY
The present invention provides, in one aspect, an integrated cooling, heating food preparation system, which comprises a food containing volume; a means to refrigerate food in said volume; a means to cook the refrigerated food in the same volume; and, optionally, a means to keep warm and/or refrigerate the cooked food in the same volume. The system is suitably controlled, in a preferred embodiment by remote control activation. In other aspects, methods of making and using the same are provided.
The invention is useful in food preparation.
Significantly, by the invention, nutritious foods such as raw chicken and fish can be kept safe and cool during the day even when the busy person is away from the kitchen, and ready for cooking, and then cooked automatically or activated remotely. The busy person can thus enjoy nutritious and most palatable foods at the end of a busy work day, safely and with a minimum of effort. The invention is economical in making and use, and numerous further advantages attend it.
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Rudy Christopher John
Trombley Joseph S.
Alexander Reginald L.
Rudy Andrew Joseph
Rudy Christopher John
Trombley Joseph S.
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