A cooking apparatus includes a cooking chamber, a cooking plate having a visual representation distinguishing a plurality of areas on a top surface of the cooking plate, a plurality of heaters configured to supply heat to the plurality of areas and a controller configured to receive information about a cooking object including a plurality of pieces of food having different cooking conditions, based on the information about the cooking object, determine a first heating intensity to be used to heat the first piece of the food, and a second heating intensity to be used to heat the second piece of the food, control the plurality of heaters to supply heat of the first heating intensity to the first area, and control the plurality of heaters to supply heat of the second heating intensity to the second area.

An electric heater includes a substrate, and a plane heating element that is located at a surface of the substrate and that includes a pattern portion having a start point and an end point that are connected to each other. The pattern portion includes a plurality of tracks that are spaced apart from one another, that have an arc shape, and that are arranged at positions from an inner side of the pattern portion to an outer side of the pattern portion, where lengths of the plurality of tracks increase from the inner side to the outer side. The plurality of tracks include at least two tracks that are arranged respectively about a first center of curvature and a second center of curvature that is different from the first center of curvature.

The present disclosure relates to a multifunctional appliance for cooking comprising: a cover; a first pot on which the cover is fitted, the first pot being provided with one or more first girds at a predetermined position thereof; a second pot detachably fixed inside the first pot, the second pot being provided with one or more second grids at a predetermined position thereof, the position of the one or more second grids corresponding with the position of the one or more first grids; a first heating member fixed on a sidewall of the first pot, facing right toward the one or more first girds; and a convection member fixed on the sidewall of the first pot, facing right toward the first heating member, such that the airflow generated by the convection member flows into the second pot through the first girds and second grids after being heated.

A cooking appliance is adapted to perform either as a single large fan-forced convection oven capable of cooking a larger food, or as two smaller independently-operable fan-forced convection ovens each capable of cooking smaller foods. Features of the cooking element arrangement provide faster, more efficient, and higher quality results regardless of the size and amount of food being cooked.

A grill plate includes a body having a top surface for supporting food, a grease trap associated with said body, a cavity defined by said grease trap, and an opening to said cavity disposed proximate said top surface.

A cooking appliance has a multi-section cooking surface that is expandable to provide a larger depth cooking surface by slideably extending a moveable front burner section of the cooking surface. The cooking appliance includes a base section extending below the cooking surface, the base section providing structure and physical support for the cooking surface. The cooking appliance includes a multi-sectioned cooking surface having a stationary rear burner section and a movable front burner section. The stationary rear burner section includes at least one rear/back burner, and the moveable front burner section includes at least one front burner. The moveable front burner section translates/slides forward away from the stationary rear burner section to provide additional/larger separation spacing between the at least one rear burner and the at least one front burner. A block insert panel is inserted into the space created between the rear burner section and the extended front burner section.

A cooking appliance apparatus, in particular an oven apparatus, includes a first heating element, a second heating element, a control unit configured to jointly operate the first and second heating elements to heat a cooking chamber in an operating state, and a power distributor unit which is configured to divide a total power into a first output power and a second output power in the operating state and to supply the first output power to the first heating element and the second output power to the second heating element.

A cooking appliance apparatus, in particular an oven apparatus, includes a first heating element, a second heating element, a control unit configured to jointly operate the first and second heating elements to heat a cooking chamber in an operating state, and a power distributor unit which is configured to divide a total power into a first output power and a second output power in the operating state and to supply the first output power to the first heating element and the second output power to the second heating element.

A portable heater that includes a ceramic substrate with a heating element configured to define a field of direct radiation, a heat reflector with a concave reflective surface configured to define a field of reflective radiation, a grill cover mounted on the heat reflector, where the ceramic substrate is mounted on an interior side of the grill cover with the heating element facing the concave reflective surface such that the field of direct radiation onto the concave reflective surface is unobstructed.

A heating element can be moved by a machine, such as a machine including a fan, an actuator, or a conveyor. The heating element can be attached to or embedded in a fan or an actuator. Or, the heating element can be attached to or embedded in a conveyor belt of a conveyor. A combination of a heating element and a mover machine can be further combined with a heat radiating wall. The heating element and the machine can be arranged behind the wall. And, when the heating element and the machine are powered on, the heating element converts electrical energy into heat, which increases the temperature of the wall, and the machine moves the heating element to be next to different areas of the wall. This allows for heat to be distributed more evenly to the wall than it would be if the heating element did not move.