Rotating Cooking Chamber for Uniform Multi-Mode Food Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooking apparatuses cause food damage due to rotating elements and lack the capability for differentiated cooking methods, such as pressure-cooking, vapor-cooking, and vacuum-cooking, as well as simultaneous ingredient addition and dressing during cooking.
Innovation Solution
A cooking apparatus with a rotatably mounted container on a fixed axis, equipped with a motor, heating fluid supply system, and programmable logic unit, allowing for various cooking methods, including indirect and direct heating, and the ability to add ingredients during different cooking steps, with features like automatic food handling and aroma injection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a rotating element is used to mix foods and ingredients, then mixing is achieved, but food is continuously damaged and deteriorated by gears and rotating elements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the traditional rotating mixing element and gear system from the cooking apparatus. Instead, the container itself rotates on a fixed axis to achieve mixing, eliminating the harmful rotating elements that directly contact and damage the food.
Solution Approach 2:
The container serves multiple functions: it holds the food, acts as the mixing mechanism through its rotation, and provides the cooking chamber. This eliminates the need for separate rotating mixing elements, reducing food damage while maintaining mixing capability.
2Device complexity
If fixed cooking containers are used, then structural simplicity is maintained, but differentiated cooking methods (pressure-cooking, vapour cooking, vacuum cooking) cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The container is made rotatable on a fixed axis, transforming it from a static to a dynamic structure. This dynamic capability enables different cooking methods by allowing the container to be positioned and operated in various ways (pressure-cooking, vapour cooking, vacuum cooking) while maintaining structural simplicity.
3Device complexity
If a single cooking apparatus is used, then device simplicity is maintained, but simultaneous differentiated loading and unloading cycles for batch cooking cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The cooking apparatus is segmented into multiple independent containers that can be loaded and unloaded separately. Each container can undergo different cooking cycles simultaneously, enabling batch cooking operations while maintaining overall apparatus simplicity through modular design.
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 apparatus enables uniform cooking without damaging food and allows for multiple cooking cycles, including pressure, vapor, and vacuum cooking, while enabling ingredient addition and aroma infusion, resulting in improved food quality and versatility.
Implementation Method 1
heating fluid supply means... supplying heating fluid on the outer skirt... continuous injection of heating fluid within said cooking chamber
Implementation Method 2
heating fluid can be passed through said cooking chamber and/or said space
Implementation Method 3
supplying heating fluid on the outer skirt with a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure
Implementation Method 4
supplying heating fluid on the outer skirt under vacuum
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus (1) for cooking foods, includes a support frame (3), a container (2) for food to be cooked, provided with a door (6) for introduction and withdrawal of the foods, and heating fluid supply elements, characterised in that the container is rotatably mounted on a fixed axis (4) of the frame (3); and in that it includes a motor rotating the container (2), foods contained within the container (2) being cooked by the heating fluid during rotation of the container (2).