A cooking appliance includes a housing, a cooking area or volume on or in the housing and a heater assembly for heating the cooking area or volume. The heater assembly includes a heater plate body with a surface having at least one groove therein. The groove includes both a deformable metal sheet element and a resistive heater element therein. The deformable metal sheet element is pressed between an outer surface portion of the resistive heater element and a surface portion of the groove to provide a thermal transfer path from the resistive heating element and to the heater plate body through the deformable metal sheet element.

An illustrated view of an exemplary electric skillet for cooking is presented. The electric skillet is useful for providing an easy, efficient and safe way to cook using the electric skillet. The electric skillet is useful for avoiding scratches and nicks which can cause a shortened lifespan of the skillet, avoid creating spaces for bacteria to grow and an easy removing of food and clean-up of the electric skillet. The electric skillet preferably has a square or oblong shape, however other shapes are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, round, rectangular, octagonal, etc.

An electric roasting pan according to the present invention comprises: a roasting pan; a heating layer being in surface contact with the roasting pan and comprising a carbon nanotube and a silicone-based adhesive; and an electrode in contact with the heating layer. The electric roasting pan has excellent thermal efficiency thanks to the minimal heat loss thereof, can reach a target temperature within a short time to reduce a preheating time, and affords excellent cooking quality. Furthermore, the electric roasting pan can substantially prevent the occurrence of temperature deviation across the area of the roasting pan during a temperature increase and is of high durability and safety.

A temperature control method for a cookware includes collecting temperature values detected by a plurality of temperature sensors arranged at different positions of a heating area of the cookware, determining a minimum temperature value and a maximum temperature value of the heating area from among the collected temperature values, starting a heating device in response to the minimum temperature value and the maximum temperature value of the heating area satisfying a preset temperature increase condition, and stopping the heating device in response to the minimum temperature value and the maximum temperature value of the heating area satisfying a preset temperature reduction condition.

An automatic stir-frying device of food frying machines is disclosed, comprising a machine body, a food frying pot, a food material stir-frying device and a master controller, wherein the food frying pot and the food material stir-frying device are respectively installed on the machine body, the food frying pot internally includes a scraper, the food material stir-frying device has a fixing frame and a track rod, a receive-send cylinder is installed on the track rod, a movable frame is fixedly mounted on the receive-send cylinder, a rotation motor is set up on the movable frame and connectively includes a stir-frying device, and the master controller is applied to control the receive-send motor and the rotation motor so as to drive the movable frame and the stir-frying device to stretch thereby entering the inside of the food frying pot to perform automatic stir-frying operations on loaded food materials and ingredients.

An automatic material pouring device of food flying machines is disclosed, comprising a machine body, a food flying pot, a material adding device and a master controller, in which the food flying pot and the material adding device are individually mounted on the machine body, and the material adding device includes a base and a movable seat which is used to place at least one material placement box, and the base is also further configured with a feeding cylinder and an attracting device, and the feeding cylinder and the attracting device are assembled together, and in which the master controller is used to control the feeding cylinder and the attracting device so as to control the feeding cylinder to roll and turn when the attracting device is attracted and attached to the material placement box thereby pouring the material accommodated inside the material placement box into the food flying pot.

An automatic edible fluid injection device of food flying machines is disclosed, comprising a machine body which is mounted with a food flying pot and an edible fluid adding device, wherein the edible fluid adding device includes a material feeding arm and a material feeding cylinder connected to the material feeding arm, and the material feeding arm is fixedly installed with a tilted material discharge fixing device and configured with a plurality of peristaltic pumps, as well as the same amount of material containers and material tube as the peristaltic pumps, and an end of each of the material tubes extends into each of the material containers and then passes around the peristaltic pump so as to detour to the material discharge fixing device to be fixed therein, and the master controller controls the material feeding cylinder and each of the peristaltic pumps such that, after activation.

Popcorn machines having easily removable popping kettle assemblies are described herein. In some embodiments, a popcorn machine configured accordance with the present technology includes a cabinet and a pair of kettle supports mounted within the cabinet. A kettle assembly is configured to be positioned on the kettle supports and to pop popcorn placed in a kettle of the kettle assembly when the kettle assembly is in a popping position, and to discharge the popcorn when the kettle assembly is moved from the popping position to a dumping position. The kettle assembly can be lifted off the kettle supports in the popping position to facilitate removal of the kettle assembly from the cabinet for maintenance, cleaning, repair, replacement, etc. In some embodiments, the kettle assembly can be stopped in the dumping position.

This is an electric and gas dual-purpose frying oven, which including a shell, door body, oil receiver, synchronous motor, a motor bracket, a sub-clutch and a mother clutch, a grill frying pan, and a frying pan cover, an infrared gas burner and a gas valve; The shell is composed of a control chamber with the front opening and the top opening at one end and a holding chamber with the back lower part. An inlet groove and a pivot joint groove communicated with the inlet groove are arranged on the endwall plate of the baking chamber; The model also comprises an electric heating pipe, which comprises a head of the tube body and a seat plate part made of the head. The end wall plate of the baking cavity is provided with a socket hole; The body part of the pipe extends into the baking cavity through the socket hole. When the head is connected with the socket hole and can be removed to cooperate with the use of gas, remove the electric heating tube; When using electricity, assemble the electric heating tube; Can also be gas and electric heating pipe used at the same time; it is easy to use.

An ingredient feeding, cooking and heating system comprises a cooking cavity (100) formed by a hollow shell in a sealed manner and main cooking equipment arranged in the cooking cavity (100), the main cooking equipment comprises a wok device and an ingredient feeding device (2), a cooking area for accommodating the wok device is arranged at a middle portion of the interior of the cooking cavity (100), a feeding area for accommodating the ingredient feeding device (2) is arranged at an upper portion of the interior of the cooking cavity (100) and above the cooking area; the wok device comprises a wok (1), a furnace body device (13) adapted for bearing and heating the wok (1), and a wok rotating device (14) adapted for controlling the wok (1) to rotate. A full-closed cooking machine comprises the ingredient feeding, cooking and heating system.