The present application firstly discloses cooking apparatuses capable of producing a cooked food using semi-cooked food as ingredients. Secondly, a cooking system may comprise more than one cooking apparatuses, each capable of cooking of food ingredients. They work together to produce a cooked food from food ingredients. A computer system is configured to control such cooking system.

A fryer and method for cooking food products is provided that automates the movement of baskets carrying the food products. The fryer includes a cooking chamber with a heating element located therein for heating cooking medium in the cooking chamber. The fryer also includes at least one vertical transport assembly that selectively engages with and moves the basket vertically into and out of the cooking medium. A horizontal transport assembly selectively engages with and moves the basket horizontally between different positions. The horizontal transport assembly hands off the basket to and from the vertical transport assembly, and first and second hooks on the horizontal transport assembly engage with front and rear receiving mechanisms on the basket to continuously maintain at least two points of contact with the basket. This allows for controlled pivotal movements of the basket when food products are to be added or removed from the basket.

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.

The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for assembling food products. More particularly, the invention relates to apparatus and methods for associating foodstuff and liquid with a base. Foodstuff may include food items such as meats, vegetables, cheeses, amongst others. Liquids include those food items that have a low viscosities (e.g. sauces, dressings, oils), high viscosities (e.g. peanut butter, frosting), and anything in between. A base can be anything on which foodstuff or liquid may be associated (e.g. bread, cake, cookies, pizza dough, a bowl in which to place foodstuff).

Provided is a closed cooking cavity (100) formed by means of a shell in a sealed manner; a working space for accommodating main cooking equipment is formed in an interior of the cooking cavity (100), the shell is provided with communicating openings which are corresponding to the main cooking equipment and adapted for communicating the interior and exterior of the cooking cavity (100), and accessory cooking equipment arranged at the exterior of the cooking cavity (100) is connected with corresponding main cooking equipment arranged in the interior of the cooking cavity through corresponding communicating openings so as to achieve corresponding cooking functions. A closed cooking system comprises the cooking cavity (100) and a cooking machine comprises the closed cooking system.

A food processing system has a wheel-shaped assembly having a stationary sub-assembly and a movable sub-assembly. The movable sub-assembly has three or more arms extending away from the stationary sub-assembly; three or more connecting rods; three or more pivoters; three or more rotators; and three or more food processing devices. The three or more food processing devices comprise a plurality of cooking chambers and a plurality of blenders. The three or more arms are rotatable about a first direction. A horizontal diameter of each connecting rod stays in a respective horizontal position parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction during rotation of the respective arm about the first direction.

A metering apparatus (1) for metering frozen piece goods, comprising a housing (10) which defines a refrigerated chamber (11), wherein a piece goods container (3), a first conveyor unit (4), and a weighing unit (5) are arranged in the refrigerated chamber (11), wherein piece goods can be transported from the piece goods container (3) via the first conveyor unit (4) to the weighing unit (5), wherein an airlock (13) is arranged below the weighing unit (5), through which piece goods can pass out of the refrigerated chamber (11).

Disclosed are a control circuit of a banana slice frying machine and a control method therefor. The control circuit comprises a MCU, a material cutting module and a processing module, wherein the material cutting module and the processing module are both connected with the MCU, the material cutting module comprises a slicer motor and a range sensor, and the processing module comprises an X-axis driving motor, a Y-axis driving motor, a Z-axis motor and a temperature control module. Signals from the range sensor and the temperature control module are received by the MCU, then feedback information is transmitted to a working element, and the MCU drives the slicer motor to perform automatic cutting and control a heating temperature of an oil pan to realize a full automatic working process from cutting to frying, so that a conventional semi-automatic working manner is abandoned, and result in great convenience.

A system and method utilizing a robotic arm to prepare a food product such as a meat for cooking and then subsequently assembling a sandwich from the cooked meat is disclosed. In addition, the robotic arm may also be used to wrap the assembled sandwich in a wrapper. The system may utilize a wire basket with a basket adapter, or handle, to allow the robotic arm to easily maneuver the basket and also utilize a wrapping assist device to wrap a wrapper around the assembled sandwich.

A fryer includes a cooking chamber for holding a cooking medium and at least one heating element positioned within the cooking chamber. The fryer further includes a conveyor belt for selectively advancing food product through the cooking chamber. The conveyor belt includes first and second chains coupled together by a plurality of elongate members extending therebetween. The conveyor belt further includes a plurality of paddles coupled to the first and second chains and extending therebetween to define a plurality of compartments. Each of the plurality of paddles includes a screen, and each compartment is sized to receive at least a portion of the food product. The conveyor belt defines a continuous loop.