Appliance and method for cooking foods by combining hot water and steam

Abstract

Provided is an apparatus and a method for jointly cooking food with hot water and steam, comprising: a main body and a food container capable of being separated from the main body, the main body comprising a machine body and a base; the machine body accommodates a water tank and a boiler under the water tank; the base extends beyond the bottom of the main body laterally for supporting the food container; monodirectional fluid communication is designed between the water tank and the boiler, as well as between the boiler and the food container; the boiler is used for receiving and heating the water from the water tank, and transferring the resultant hot water and steam to the food container. Also provided is a method for cooking food using the apparatus. The food container can be separated from the main body, i.e. separated from the heat source and the power supply. The container can be readily cleaned. By means of cooking food using hot water and steam jointly, the amount of energy is easy to control, so that good effects from cooking are obtained without spoiling the nutritional constituents in food.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to an appliance and a method for cooking food, in particular to an appliance and a method for combining hot water and steam to cook food. Background technique [0002] In household appliances that need to use hot (boiled) water or hot steam to cook food, usually only a certain heating method is used, that is, hot water or hot steam, such as electric kettles, electric rice cookers, etc. are hot water, or electric steamers etc. are hot steam, and the heating element and the food container are integrated (such as electric kettle, soybean milk machine, etc.), or equivalently integrated (such as electric rice cooker, electric steamer, etc.), so there are two problems that are difficult to overcome: One is that the energy is difficult to control, such as the phenomenon of sticking pot (pipe) and boiling over caused by electric rice cooker and soybean milk machine, which destroys the nutritional content of food and causes waste; second, ...

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[0002] In household appliances that need to use hot (boiled) water or hot steam to cook food, usually only a certain heating method is used, that is, hot water or hot steam, such as electric kettles, electric rice cookers, etc. are hot water, or electric steamers etc. are hot steam, and the heating element and the food container are integrated (such as electric kettle, soybean milk machine, etc.), or equivalently integrated (such as electric rice cooker, electric steamer, etc.), so there are two problems that are difficult to overcome: One is that the energy is difficult to control, such as the phenomenon of sticking pot (pipe) and boiling over caused by electric rice cooker and soybean milk machine, which destroys the nutritional content of food and causes waste; second, the food container is connected to the power supply, which is not easy to clean, and is prone to leakage and short circuit ACCIDENT

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