Abstract: A heatable housing and a device such as a cooking appliance including a heatable housing for producing steam includes at least one wall that delimits an interior space, which is enclosed by the housing at least in areas and which serves to hold a liquid to be vaporized. The wall has at least one hollow for accommodating at least one heating device.

Abstract: A heatable housing and a device such as a cooking appliance including a heatable housing for producing steam includes at least one wall that delimits an interior space, which is enclosed by the housing at least in areas and which serves to hold a liquid to be vaporized. The wall has at least one hollow for accommodating at least one heating device.

Abstract: A heat accumulator device for a cooking appliance, comprising a housing, which can be sealed by a door and contains an interior section with a cooking chamber, at least one heating device for generating hot air and/or steam from a steam generator, and a fan device for circulating hot air and/or steam in the cooking chamber. The heat accumulator device comprises at least one accumulator container, which at least temporarily holds a medium that is at least partially fluid above a specific temperature and at least one heat exchanger, into which at least part of the medium can be pumped at least temporarily and which extends into the interior section and the steam generator. The heating device contains the heat exchanger. The invention also relates to a cooking appliance comprising at least one heat accumulator device of this type.

Abstract: An antenna configuration for a cooking appliance with a cooking chamber, including at least one accessory for introducing at least two cooking product carriers for the treatment of cooking products on at least two treatment levels. The accessory carrying multiple antennae. The cooking appliance having an equipment chamber or technical chamber separated from the cooking chamber having at least one microwave source, whereby the antennae are fed from the microwave source with microwaves with wavelength ? through a system of lines of the accessory. At least one antenna is arranged per treatment level and each treatment level is arranged in a resonant body for the microwaves. The resonant body defined by a cooking product carrier and the cooking chamber or between two cooking product carriers. The antennae comprise detuned ?/4 rods to provide essentially the same microwave energy to each treatment level.

Abstract: A cooling appliance with a microwave plug connector or such a microwave plug connector, comprises an emitter unit an a receiver unit, whereby the emitter unit is connected to a microwave source for feeding microwaves having wavelength ?, the receiver unit is connected to the emitter unit for transmission of microwaves, a dielectric is arranged between the emitter unit and the receiver unit at least in some areas, the emitter unit has at least one metallic conductor in connection with a metallic ?/4 structure, the receiver unit comprises at least one metallic conductor in connection with a metallic ?/4 structure, the two ?/4 structures can be connected on top of one another or to one another, especially separably, and the dielectric is provided as a dielectric coating of at least a part of at least one of the ?/4 structures, which functions as a metallic substrate in the region of connecting on top of one another or together of the ?/4 structure.

Abstract: In a method for improved fresh air supply in a cooking apparatus, an inner housing is provided to circumscribe a cooking chamber. A fan chamber is separated from the cooking chamber via at least one flow guide element. The fan chamber has a fan with a fan wheel which comprises primary blades on its side facing the first flow guide element and auxiliary blades on its side facing the wall of the inner housing through which the axle of the fan wheel passes to connect with a motor arranged outside of the inner housing. The fan wheel is provided for the circulation of cooking atmosphere and/or suction of fresh air into the inner housing via a fresh air channel, a mouth of which is separated from the axle of the fan wheel and runs into the inner housing through the wall.

Abstract: A method for determining at least one physical characteristic in a product to be cooked, such as in a product to be cooked used in a cooking process, is characterized by the following steps: generating a temporal, changeable temperature field within a product to be cooked; acquiring a plurality of first measured values in the product to be cooked, said first measured values comprising at least one first temperature value at a first position and at least one second temperature value at a second position separated from the first position, and determining the physical characteristic from the first measured values.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fan impeller including a base plate and a plurality of fan impeller blades fixed to the plate. The fan impeller blades are positioned in an essentially vertical manner on the base plate and have a substantially radial arrangement, each fan impeller blade including a front edge facing radially outwardly that is substantially perpendicular to the base plate, a rear edge facing radially inwardly that is substantially perpendicular to the base plate, an exterior surface located on the delivery side of the fan impeller and an interior surface located on the intake side of the fan impeller. At least one raised element is mounted and/or configured on the exterior surface of at least one selection of the fan impeller blades, the element being positioned at a distance from the base plate and extending substantially in a diagonal manner away from the base plate from the front edge to the rear edge of the fan impeller blades.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fan impeller including a base plate and a plurality of fan impeller blades fixed to the plate. The fan impeller blades are positioned in an essentially vertical manner on the base plate and have a substantially radial arrangement, each fan impeller blade including a front edge facing radially outwardly that is substantially perpendicular to the base plate, a rear edge facing radially inwardly that is substantially perpendicular to the base plate, an exterior surface located on the delivery side of the fan impeller and an interior surface located on the intake side of the fan impeller. At least one raised element is mounted and/or configured on the exterior surface of at least one selection of the fan impeller blades, the element being positioned at a distance from the base plate and extending substantially in a diagonal manner away from the base plate from the front edge to the rear edge of the fan impeller blades.

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a cooking space, a microwave generator device and at least one coaxial transmission line or strip transmission line within the cooking space. The transmission line is connected to the microwave generator device, and is used to outcouple microwave radiation produced by the microwave generator device to the cooking space. The at least one coaxial transmission line and/or strip transmission line may be integrated in at least one component of the cooking appliance in the form of a post or a fixed holder within the cooking space or in at least one accessory which can be introduced into the cooking space. The holder may include a hanging rack, a mobile oven rack or a mobile plate rack to hold insertable cooking containers, plates, sheets and/or pans.

Abstract: A method and steam generator includes a steam generator container having a heated wall surface, an inlet for a liquid and an outlet for removing the vaporized liquid or steam, a rotor, which is mounted for rotation in the container and causes a rotational flow of the liquid outwardly against the heated wall to cause vaporization. During rotation of the rotor, outer edges of the blades of the rotor contact the wall surface to either abrade or wipe deposits, such as lime, from the wall surface.

Abstract: In a method for improved fresh air supply in a cooking apparatus, an inner housing is provided to circumscribe a cooking chamber. A fan chamber is separated from the cooking chamber via at least one flow guide element. The fan chamber has a fan with a fan wheel which comprises primary blades on its side facing the first flow guide element and auxiliary blades on its side facing the wall of the inner housing through which the axle of the fan wheel passes to connect with a motor arranged outside of the inner housing. The fan wheel is provided for the circulation of cooking atmosphere and/or suction of fresh air into the inner housing via a fresh air channel, a mouth of which is separated from the axle of the fan wheel and runs into the inner housing through the wall.

Abstract: In a method of controlling a cooking process, at least two temperature values are picked up by a cooking process sensor which is adapted to be stuck at least partly into food to be cooked. Specific parameters of cooking food and/or cooking utensils are determined via the thermo kinetics of the temperature values registered, and the specific cooking food and/or cooking utensil parameters determined are utilized for controlling the cooking process. The invention likewise relates to a cooking process sensor for use with the method according to the invention.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for homogenizing the energy being supplied to products being cooked. The product is cooked in a cooking chamber of the apparatus on at least one receptacle or container, such as a baking tray or grill. The cooking chamber atmosphere is conducted over the container essentially along a plurality of flow paths which extend essentially parallel in relation to one another and the direction of the flow paths is periodically reversed so as to obtain a uniform heating of the products being cooked.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the generation of steam, in particular for a cooking device, whereby a fluid within a steam generator container is brought to the boil, by the heating of at least one heatable wall surface (12) of the steam generator container. Said fluid is set in rotation by the heating and thus pressed against the heatable wall surface (12), due to centrifugal forces arising from the rotation. The steam generated as a result of the evaporation of at least a part of the fluid escapes from the steam generator container through a steam outlet and droplets of fluid entrained in the steam are separated out by at least one first rotor (8), rotatably mounted in the steam generator container, whereby the fluid is set in rotation by said rotor. The invention further relates to a device using the above method.

Abstract: In an apparatus and a method for cleaning the inside of a cooking device having a cooking chamber and a blower chamber separated from the cooking chamber via air baffles, an impeller is arranged in the blower chamber for generating a conveying stream in the cooking chamber as well as in the blower chamber, whereby at least one spray nozzle for spraying at least one fluid, such as a cleaning agent, rinse agent, clear rinse agent, decalcification agent, water and/or the like, faces toward the impeller, whereby the spray jet of the at least one spray nozzle in the blower chamber is directed opposite the conveying stream of the impeller.

Abstract: In an apparatus and a method for cleaning the inside of a cooking device having a cooking chamber and a blower chamber separated from the cooking chamber via air baffles, an impeller is arranged in the blower chamber for generating a conveying stream in the cooking chamber as well as in the blower chamber, whereby at least one spray nozzle for spraying at least one fluid, such as a cleaning agent, rinse agent, clear rinse agent, decalcification agent, water and/or the like, faces toward the impeller, whereby the spray jet of the at least one spray nozzle in the blower chamber is directed opposite the conveying stream of the impeller.

Abstract: A method for cooking in a cooking device which has a cooking chamber and a measuring device to detect variables pertaining to a given state of food which is being cooked. The variables vary according to the cooking process. The cooking process is carried out according to at least one measured value corresponding to a cooking state variable. The cooking process is also carried out according to one of several values corresponding to a derivative of a cooking state variable obtained as a function of a duration of the cooking process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cooking device with a cooking chamber, a heating device, a circulating system, an energy storage and extraction system and a measuring and regulating system connected to the heating device, the circulating system and the energy storage and extraction system.

Abstract: A cooker comprising a cooking chamber and a means for introducing water into the cooking chamber in liquid or in steam form is disclosed, whereby the cooker is characterized in that it comprises a means for eliminating moisture from the cooking chamber, comprises at least one moisture sensor in the cooking chamber and comprises a control means that registers the output signals of the moisture sensor as first control parameter and compares them to a rated value and, according to the result of the comparison, drives the means for introducing water into the cooking chamber or the means for eliminating moisture from the cooking chamber.