Abstract: The device of this invention is a multi-purpose cooking device through heating of a water bath. It comprises means arranged so as to contain a water bath, means for heating the bath water and means for controlling the heating power, arranged so as to provide for cooking foodstuffs through immersion or steam cooking. The device further comprises means for controlling the temperature of the bath water and means for homogenizing the bath water for providing for a low temperature cooking operation. According to this invention, a single device could be used both for cooking through immersion into a (boiling) water bath, for steam cooking and for low temperature cooking.

Abstract: According to the invention, the method for cleaning a dual cooking mode oven, comprising a muffle forming the cooking enclosure, and a boiler for sending water, as vapour, inside the enclosure of the muffle, is characterized in that the washing step of the muffle and the descaling step of the boiler are carried out in parallel, simultaneously.

Abstract: The method for cooking a food product in an oven comprising elements, the operations of which determine cooking set-points, is remarkable in that: cooking set-points are captured for defining an associated and determined cooking mode; the food product is located in the oven; the cooking operation is initiated; the operation of the elements is monitored and, should one of such elements be defective, the operation of the cooking mode associated with the oven is automatically switched to a degraded cooking mode, having at least one of its associated set-points differing from the captured set-point.

Abstract: The device of this invention is a multi-purpose cooking device through heating of a water bath. It comprises means arranged so as to contain a water bath, means for heating the bath water and means for controlling the heating power, arranged so as to provide for cooking foodstuffs through immersion or steam cooking. The device further comprises means for controlling the temperature of the bath water and means for homogenizing the bath water for providing for a low temperature cooking operation. According to this invention, a single device could be used both for cooking through immersion into a (boiling) water bath, for steam cooking and for low temperature cooking.

Abstract: Burner for gas oven comprising a device for retaining a flame of the burner, separating the flame from a mixing chamber capable of receiving a flow of primary air and gas to form a gaseous mixture. The flame retention device is provided with a mesh comprising metal threads, capable of allowing said gaseous mixture to pass through the mesh, said mesh comprising at least one main zone and a pilot zone which are adjacent. The pilot zone having, according to a main direction of the flame of the burner, a thickness greater than the thickness of the main zone, capable of slowing down the gaseous mixture passing through the pilot zone relative to the mixture passing through the main zone. The burner comprises at least one orifice capable of receiving a secondary air flow.

Abstract: Oven control system, including a display screen, a data input means and a calculation unit able to send instructions to the display screen and to receive instructions from the data input means, the said calculation unit including a means for grading cooking programs at least as a function of a first criterion of family of products to be cooked, of product to be cooked within a family, or of recipe or of method of cooking, and a means for adjusting the cooking program according to at least one second internal final criterion and one third external final criterion, the display screen being able to simultaneously display the selected values of the said criteria or the values of the said criteria currently being selected by a user, with a zone for displaying the values of the second and third criteria and which is designed to also display unselected values of the said criteria in such a way that the selected values can be read graphically, the said display zone being able to display a window adapted to each type

Abstract: Oven control system, comprising a display screen 9, a data input means 32 and a calculation unit 8 able to send instructions to the display screen 9 and to receive instructions from the data input means, the said calculation unit 8 comprising a means for grading cooking programmes at least as a function of a first criterion of family of products to be cooked, of product to be cooked within a family, or of recipe or of method of cooking, and a means for adjusting the cooking programme according to at least one second internal final criterion and one third external final criterion, the display screen 9 being able to simultaneously display the selected values of the said criteria or the values of the said criteria currently being selected by a user, with a zone for displaying the values of the second and third criteria and which is designed to also display unselected values of the said criteria in such a way that the selected values can be read graphically, the said display zone being able to display a window ad

Abstract: A device for supporting a gas burner mounted cantilever fashion on a wall of a water tank and for locating the burner relative to a safety/igniter system fixed to another wall of the tank. The burner and the safety/igniter system cooperate when mounting the burner to enable the burner to rest on the system, namely through at least one notch in the bottom edge of a skirt of the burner and a rod projecting from the system and having at its free end a neck of smaller section followed by a head of larger section. Applications include assemblies of two burners joined together.

Abstract: An oven includes an enclosure defining an interior space, means for heating the interior space, means for controlling the heating means, and means for cooling the interior space from a particular first temperature to a particular second temperature lower than the first temperature.

Abstract: A device is disclosed for supporting a gas burner mounted cantilever fashion on a wall of a water tank and for locating the burner relative to a safety/igniter system fixed to another wall of said tank. The burner and the safety/igniter system cooperate when mounting the burner to enable the burner to rest on the system, namely through at least one notch in the bottom edge of a skirt of the burner and a rod projecting from the system and having at its free end a neck of smaller section followed by a head of larger section. Applications include assemblies of two burners joined together.