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Abstract

It is an object of the invention to provide a cooking apparatus which can set the interior of a heating chamber at desired humidity and temperature in a short time. In the cooking apparatus, an object to be heated 11 is stored into a heating chamber 12, the interior of the heating chamber 12 is heated up to a given temperature using heating chamber interior heating means 13, and water supplied to a storage part 17 formed within the heating chamber by water supply means 16 is heated using storage part heating means 18 to thereby generate and supply steam. At the then time, based on the temperature of the interior of the heating chamber detected by heating chamber interior temperature detect means 20, a control part 19 controls the storage part heating means 18 in such a manner that the water in the storage part 17 is prevented from boiling on, before the steam is supplied. That is, since, by supplying the steam not boiling, the supply of the steam can be executed without increasing the temperature of the interior of the heating chamber, the excessive progress of fermentation can be prevented and thus the proper fermentation can be carried out.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a cooking apparatus and, specifically, the invention relates to a cooking apparatus which can be used to ferment dough. BACKGROUND ART [0002] Since, when fermenting dough, there is used yeast which is a living thing, when the temperature of the interior of a heating chamber is too high or the humidity thereof is too high, the fermented state of the dough is poor. In view of this, in a conventional cooking apparatus which does not have a steam function, a user manually sprays steam into the heating chamber to adjust the humidity within the heating chamber. However, in the conventional cooking apparatus, it is troublesome to control the temperature and humidity. [0003] To solve this problem, there has been developed a microwave oven which can spray steam into the heating chamber to control the humidity within the heat chamber (see, for example, the patent reference 1). [0004] Here, FIG. 6 shows a microwave oven 100 which is a coo...

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Benefits of technology

[0006] The invention is made in view of the above-mentioned problem and thus it is an object of the invention to provide a cooking apparatus which can set the interior of the heating chamber at desired humidity and temperature in a short time. <Means for Solving the Problems>

[0018] In the thus structured cooking apparatus, since the storage part heating means is controlled so as to prevent the water in the storage part from boiling, generation of an excessive amount of steam can be prevented and thus the humidity of the interior of the heating chamber can be maintained at a proper level.

Problems solved by technology

Since, when fermenting dough, there is used yeast which is a living thing, when the temperature of the interior of a heating chamber is too high or the humidity thereof is too high, the fermented state of the dough is poor.

However, in the conventional cooking apparatus, it is troublesome to control the temperature and humidity.

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