Cooking device and components thereof
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cooking devices are limited to single cooking operations, requiring multiple devices for various cooking modes, leading to cost and storage inefficiencies for consumers who want to cook food in different ways.
Innovation Solution
A multifunctional cooking system with a housing, movable lid, and multiple heating elements that can operate in conductive and convective modes, including pressure cooking, air frying, and dehydrating, using a rotational air movement device and air diffuser to achieve various cooking functions in a single device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate cooking devices are used to perform different cooking operations, then each device can be optimized for its specific function, but the cost and storage space requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The cooking device integrates multiple cooking functions (pressure cooking, air frying, dehydrating, steaming, sautéing) into a single appliance by combining a heating element with a rotatable air movement device that can operate in different modes, eliminating the need for multiple separate cooking devices
Solution Approach 2:
The air movement device can rotate at variable speeds and directions, allowing the same component to serve different cooking functions by adjusting its operational parameters rather than requiring separate fixed-function components for each cooking mode
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate cooking devices are purchased to enable different cooking modes, then consumers can access various cooking methods, but the accumulation of devices becomes prohibitive from cost and storage standpoint
Solution Approach 1:
The device provides five distinct cooking modes (pressure cooking, air frying, dehydrating, steaming, sautéing) through a single multifunctional appliance, reducing the quantity of devices from multiple separate appliances to one unified system
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system allows for versatile cooking operations in multiple modes without the need for multiple devices, enhancing user convenience and reducing storage and cost burdens by integrating multiple functions into a single appliance.
Implementation Method 1
at least one heating element associated with one of the housing and the lid
Implementation Method 2
a rotational air movement device coupled to at least one of the housing and the lid, wherein during operation of the rotational air movement device, the rotational air movement device is operable to rotate at a plurality of speeds
Implementation Method 3
an air diffuser configured to impart rotation to the air circulating through the hollow interior
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AI summary
Disclosed herein is a cooking system for cooking food, the cooking system comprising: a housing defining a hollow chamber configured to receive a food container, said housing having an upper portion defining an opening to said hollow chamber; a food container having a hollow container interior and being positionable within said hollow chamber, wherein a bottom surface of said container is a continuous surface absent of apertures; an insert receivable in said container, said insert including at least one surface with apertures; a first lid attachable to said housing and moveable between a first position that covers said upper portion of said housing and said opening to said hollow chamber when said food container is installed within said hollow chamber and a second position where said first lid does not cover said opening to said hollow chamber, a second lid attachable to said housing to covers said upper portion of said housing and said opening to said hollow chamber; and at least one heating element disposed in said first lid.