Abstract: A cooking system, including a product loader for dispensing uncooked food product; a broiler/oven having an inlet end, a cooking chamber, a discharge end, a motorized conveyor system for conveying food through said broiler from said inlet end to said discharge end, and heating elements for heating and cooking food products in said cooking chamber. Disposed at the input end between product feed belts and broiler conveyor belts is a photoelectric sensor system that detects the presence of food product passing from the feed belts to the broiler conveyor belts which, when tripped, locks in the cook time for a recipe under execution and prevents inadvertent user changes that would adversely affect the cooked product quality.

Abstract: A cooking system, including a product loader for dispensing uncooked food product; a broiler/oven having an inlet end, a cooking chamber, a discharge end, a motorized conveyor system for conveying food through said broiler from said inlet end to said discharge end, and heating elements for heating and cooking food products in said cooking chamber. Disposed proximate the discharge end is a temperature sensor system including temperature sensors for measuring the internal temperature of the cooked food product. Readings from the temperature sensor system are sent to a system controller to evaluate and qualify food product as sufficient or insufficiently cooked. A discharge control system sends disqualified food product to a discard bin and qualified food product to a product holding bin.