Abstract: A wireless induction heating cooker is configured to operate on an induction heating apparatus. The wireless induction heating cooker includes a main body, an internal pot configured to be disposed in the main body, a plurality of receiving coils disposed at a bottom surface of the main body and arranged along a circumferential direction of the internal pot, and a plurality of lateral surface heating coils spaced apart from the bottom surface of the main body and arranged along a lateral surface of the internal pot. Each of the plurality of lateral surface heating coils is connected to one of the plurality of receiving coils that is disposed at an opposite side with respect to a reference line passing through the bottom surface of the main body.

Abstract: An egg peeler that is configured to separate an egg shell of a hard-boiled egg from the white of the egg. The egg peeler includes a receptacle having a cavity and a lid. The receptacle has a side wall including at least one continuous annular shoulder configured to help crush and separate an egg shell of an egg from the egg white when vigorously shaken. The egg peeler is effective, easy to use, inexpensive, and comprises only two parts and thus very easy to manufacture and package.

Abstract: Systems and apparatus for heating or cooling food. A heating and cooling system for operative connection to a well includes a first manifold having a plurality of openings, each allowing a seal to be made against a first surface of a Peltier chip, and defines a flow path for a heat transfer fluid which directly contacts the first surfaces of a plurality of Peltier chips. The fluid circulates through tubing from the manifold to the well and connects to a flow space of a tray disposed therein. A second opposite manifold may be joined to the first manifold to form a block and defines a second flow path allowing direct contact with the second surfaces of the plurality of Peltier chips. The fluid circulates through tubing from the second manifold to a radiator. The manifolds may be joined to form a manifold block. The trays may be interchangeable.

Abstract: A fruit hull remover removes hulls from berries and other fruit with hulls. The fruit hull remover has a handle, an at least one tong, and an at least one prong, all of which are typically curved or round. The handle has a threaded rod between or at the center of the at least one tong to engage and remove a fruit hull. The threaded rod may be recessed from the at least one prong and have a distal unthreaded region, both which reduce entry pressure into the hull and mitigate entry of the threaded region into the fruit meat to increase intact hull removal performance. A hull ejector has an inner ring and an outer ring to slide down from between the prongs to eject the hull, or the hull ejector may have hemi-cylindrical halves to slide down from between the prongs to eject the hull.

Abstract: A device for synthesizing carbonated water includes: a device shell, in which a stirring chamber is defined; a rotation shaft, which is accommodated in the stirring chamber; a blade structure, which is accommodated in the stirring chamber and rotatable around the rotation shaft; sidewall ribs, which are distributed in the stirring chamber and arranged on a sidewall of the device shell, each sidewall rib comprising one or more collision interfaces; an input unit, which is arranged on the device shell, positioned below the blade structure, communicated with the stirring chamber, and operable to receive water and carbon dioxide; and an output unit, which is arranged on the device shell, positioned above the blade structure, communicated with the stirring chamber, and operable to deliver carbonated water with a predetermined concentration.

Abstract: An assembly for preparing and/or cooking food for a kitchen appliance, includes at least in a first configuration: a bowl for preparing and/or cooking food including a first cooking and/or preparation inner volume, the bowl further having at least one handle extending outside of the first inner volume, a cooking basket shaped so as to be positioned inside the first cooking inner volume, the cooking basket having a second cooking inner volume, the basket having at least one gripping member, a cap shaped so as to close the first volume. The assembly has a housing configured to house at least partially the gripping member of the basket, the housing being arranged outside the first inner volume and outside the second inner volume.

Abstract: A cooking assembly can include a cooking vessel, a mixer, and a motor. The cooking vessel can include a bottom contact portion including a first bore therethrough, a heating portion spaced above the bottom contact portion and including a second bore therethrough, and a sidewall connected to the heating portion and together with the heating portion configured to retain food in the cooking vessel. The mixer can be located within the cooking vessel, where the mixer configured to rotate relative to the heating portion. The motor can be connected to the mixer via the first bore and the second bore to drive the mixer to rotate.

Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic-cooking-and-processing vending system for frozen-food, comprising the low-temperature chamber, the object-moving system, the product shelves, the low-temperature chamber equipment, the food container; the said low-temperature chamber equipment is inside the low-temperature chamber, or connected to the casing of the low-temperature chamber; the low-temperature chamber equipment contains hot-air source and the humid-air source; the product shelves is inside the low-temperature chamber with disposable food containers placed on; the object-moving system is inside the low-temperature chamber. This system has the air-circulating system, which can force the outer hot-and-humid air to come inside in one-way from a cold chamber, so as to isolate the hot-and-humid air.

Abstract: A device is provided that may include an attachment component configured to attach the device to a grill. The device may include a temperature sensor configured to detect a grill temperature of the grill and an airflow control component configured to control an airflow into the grill. The airflow control component may be adjustable to permit a plurality of airflow rates into the grill. The device may include one or more processors to set a target temperature for the grill, detect the grill temperature of the grill via the temperature sensor, determine an airflow rate based on the target temperature, the grill temperature, and a value that changes as a function of time. The processor may cause the device to set the airflow control component, based on the airflow rate, to control the airflow into the grill.

Abstract: A heating apparatus (2) includes a high frequency power supply (3), a left conductive plate (4), a right conductive plate (5), a left heating coil (11), and a right heating coil (12). The left heating coil (11) includes a left conductor portion (21). The left conductor portion (21) faces a gear tooth (7a) of a helical gear (7) and extends in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the gear tooth (7a) extends. The left heating coil (11) includes a focusing magnetic body (31) which focuses magnetic flux in the left conductor portion (21) and concentrates the magnetic flux on a surface of the gear tooth (7a). The left heating coil (11) includes an upper inducing magnetic body (32) which induces a part of the magnetic flux flowing in a tooth root of the gear tooth (7a) into a tooth tip of the gear tooth (7a).

Abstract: This invention provides a coffee maker having a top housing (2) connected to a bottom housing (3) via a plurality of connecting elements (4) such that the top housing is enacted above the bottom housing; a water tank (1) positioned on top of the top housing; a carafe (5) to be placed under the top housing, the carafe has an upper part having a brewing cone (51); and a rotating spout (6) located at the bottom of said top housing and above the carafe for pouring hot water into the carafe.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating device for heating a cigarette The heating device includes a housing, a heating chamber arranged in the housing, at least one heating element, a control component, and a power supply. The housing defines an opening for insertion of the cigarette. The heating chamber is configured for partly receiving the cigarette. The at least one heating element is configured for heating the cigarette. The heating element is movably arranged in the heating chamber. The control component is configured for driving the at least one heating element to move, so that the at least one heating element abuts against an outer surface of the cigarette. The power supply is configured for supplying the at least one heating element power.

Abstract: A coffee machine including a controller, a boiler for heating a flow of infusion water, a movable infusion unit having an open infusion chamber connected to a dispensing line for dispensing the coffee infusion and having an ejection piston slidably supported therein in the infusion chamber, a supply line for supplying said flow of infusion water to the infusion unit, a closing piston engageable for closure of the infusion chamber. The controller can subject the infusion unit, prior to execution of the infusion process, to a first course of translational movement for closure of the infusion chamber by the closing piston, and to subject the infusion chamber and/or the ejection piston, following execution of the infusion process, to a second course of translational movement, for compression of the load of spent coffee grounds against the closing piston and for drainage of the liquid contained therein.

Abstract: A non-metallic media substrate includes a disc-shaped substrate body having at least one media storage surface on a face thereof. The substrate body has a center opening having an inner diameter and an outer diameter surface, and the substrate body has a thickness. The substrate further includes an annular groove at the outer diameter of the media substrate, the annular groove having chamfered edges and an internal concavity extending toward the inner diameter.

Abstract: A cooking utensil includes a drive unit which is configured to drive at least one consumer, and a receiving unit which is configured to receive energy in a contactless manner and to supply energy to the drive unit. The cooking utensil can be part of a cooking system which further includes a cooktop apparatus having an induction unit configured at least to supply energy for the receiving unit of the cooking utensil.

Abstract: A coffee machine (100), particularly suitable to be used in catering establishments or the like, is described, comprising a machine body (10) provided with a delivering assembly (30) for delivering coffee, at least one boiler (20) designed to heat the water up to the working temperature and means (25) for drawing water from the boiler (20) and supplying the same to the delivering assembly (30). The boiler (20) is arranged outside of the machine body (10) and remotely therefrom such that the overall dimensions on the working surface are considerably reduced and a simple replacement or interchangeability of the various components is allowed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mesh drum and a juice extractor including the same. The mesh drum according to the present invention includes: a mesh plate formed in a cylindrical hollow shape and is gradually reduced in diameter as it goes toward the bottom from the top, and having at least one mesh holes formed on a side wall thereof; at least one wall blades formed on an inner circumferential surface of the mesh plate in the longitudinal direction of the mesh drum in such a manner as to position in proximity to a feed screw rotating inside the mesh plate; and at least one grinding blades formed on the inner circumferential surface of a lower portion of the mesh plate. The juice extractor according to the present invention includes the mesh drum, a main body, a feed screw, a housing, and cover.

Abstract: A coaxially arranged smart susceptor conductor, comprising a smart susceptor core comprising an alloy having a first Curie temperature point and a first smart susceptor shell coaxially arranged around the smart susceptor core. The first smart susceptor shell comprising a second Curie temperature point that is different than the first Curie temperature point of the smart susceptor core. In one arrangement, the second Curie temperature point of the first smart susceptor shell is lower than the first Curie temperature point of the smart susceptor core. In another arrangement, the smart susceptor conductor further comprises a second smart susceptor shell disposed about the first smart susceptor shell. The second smart susceptor shell comprising a third Curie temperature point.

Abstract: A selective heating device may include a chamber, at least one heating element, and a circuit. The at least one heating element may selectively heat a first portion of a target in the chamber at a first energy level for a first period of time. The at least one heating element may also selectively heat a second portion of the target at a second energy level for a second period of time, wherein the second energy level and/or the second period of time are different from the first energy level and/or the first period of time; or refrain from heating a third portion of the target; or a combination thereof. The circuit may receive a heating instruction and control the at least one heating element based on the heating instruction.

Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a first element having a first electric resistance value connected in series to a load; a second series circuit including a second element having a second electric resistance value and a third element connected in series to the second element and having a third electric resistance value, and connected in parallel with a first series circuit including the load and the first element; an operational amplifier in which one of a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal is connected to the first series circuit, and the other of the non-inverting input terminal and the inverting input terminal is connected to the second series circuit; and a heating circuit capable of supplying the load with a current larger than a current flowing through the load when a current flows through the first series circuit and the second series circuit.