A heating cooker includes a heating chamber, an imaging device, a heating device, and control device (300). Control device (300) includes captured image acquisition unit (302), heating information acquisition unit (303), heating controller (307), and state detector (304). Captured image acquisition unit (302) acquires an image captured by the imaging device. Heating information acquisition unit (303) acquires heating information by referring to the image of a heating target acquired. Heating controller (307) controls the heating device according to the heating information. State detector (304) detects presence or absence of the heating target in the heating chamber or removal of the heating target from the heating chamber by referring to the image captured. Heating information acquisition unit (303) acquires the heating information when state detector (304) detects absence of the heating target in the heating chamber or removal of the heating target from the heating chamber.

A cooking appliance includes a body defining a cooking cavity. A door is rotatably coupled to the body. An imager assembly is coupled to an interior surface of the door. The imager assembly includes an image sensor configured to obtain image data within a field of view, a first primary mirror positioned at a first angle proximate to the image sensor and within the field of view, and a second primary mirror positioned at a second angle proximate to the image sensor and within the field of view. A secondary mirror assembly includes multiple secondary mirrors coupled to the body within the cooking cavity. The secondary mirrors reflect image views within the cooking cavity to the first primary mirror and the second primary mirror which reflects the image views to the image sensor to be captured as the image data.

A modular oven includes a cabinet receiving separate modules with distinct cooking operations. Modules of the modular oven may provide any combination of convection cooking, steam cooking, impingement cooking, and high speed cooking. Therefore, the modules may be mixed and matched to suit the desired cooking operations. In some embodiments, improved steam cooking at lower cooking temperatures is provided by directing spraying water onto an independent heat source, controlled separately from the cavity heating element, within each cooking zone. By operating a separate heating element specifically for steam generation, there can be more accurate heat control of the cooking zones without overheating the cooking zones when steam is needed but when lower cooking temperatures (e.g., 211 degrees Fahrenheit and below) are desired.

The present disclosure provides a cooking apparatus and a method for controlling the same for analyzing changes in the internal temperature, the external temperature, and the surface of a cooking material that is being cooked, and appropriately heating the cooking material based on the analysis result to cook the same. In particular, the intensity of heat emitted toward the cooking material from a heater or the cooking time may be controlled using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, which executes machine learning (ML) over a 5G network, such that the cooking material is appropriately cooked in accordance with a change in the surface of the cooking material and a change in a thermal image representing the internal temperature and the external temperature of the cooking material.

A cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking compartment, which is surrounded by a bottom surface, a pair of side surfaces, and a back surface of the housing, and has an upper surface and a front surface which are open. A door includes a door upper surface part which covers the upper surface of the housing and a door front surface part which is connected to a front side of the door upper surface part and covers the front surface of the housing and opens and closes the upper surface and the front surface of the housing by rotating about a rear side of the door upper surface part. A heating part is installed in at least one of the housing or the door.

A connected oven, including a set of in-cavity sensors and a processor configured to automatically identify foodstuff within the cooking cavity, based on the sensor measurements; and automatically operate the heating element based on the foodstuff identity.

A cooking adjustment system for a cooking appliance includes a body that defines a cooking cavity. A steam generator system is coupled to the body. The steam generator system is configured to inject steam into the cooking cavity. An air temperature sensor is disposed within the cooking cavity and configured to sense a dry bulb temperature. A food probe has multiple food temperature sensors. At least one of the food temperature sensors is configured to sense a surface temperature of a food item. A controller is communicatively coupled to the steam generator system, the air temperature sensor, and the food probe. The controller is configured to determine a wet bulb temperature utilizing the surface temperature of the food. The controller is configured to adjust relative humidity within the cooking cavity in response to at least one of the wet bulb temperature and the dry bulb temperature.

A cooking appliance includes a main body forming a machine room; a cooking chamber arranged below the machine room; an intermediate flow path including a first suction port and formed between the machine room and the cooking chamber; and a fan configured to suction air into the intermediate flow path, wherein the machine room includes a second suction port through which air is suctioned, and an opening portion connected to the intermediate flow path, the opening portion includes a first opening portion and a second opening portion arranged at a farther distance from the fan than the first opening portion, and the second opening portion has an area larger than an area of the first opening portion.

An automatic apparatus for baking pastry products, wherein baking molds containing a pastry mass to be baked are introduced into the apparatus for baking purposes, wherein the apparatus comprises a reception or cooling module that defines a pre-chamber, a baking module, and a rotary oven door arranged between said modules so as to rotate for positioning the molds between reception, baking and cooling positions, thus avoiding the use of additional mechanical parts that may generate failures and inconveniences in the normal operation of the appliance, while the invented apparatus provides a better quality baked product that is achieved by homogeneous heating within the oven module.

An oven appliance includes a chamber, a fan assembly operable to cause air to flow in the chamber, and a first heating element adjacent to a bottom wall of the oven appliance. The oven appliance further includes a removable heating element cover configured for defining a duct in fluid communication with the fan assembly and the first heating element for directing airflow in the chamber to the fan assembly and across the first heating element to heat a food item. The oven appliance also includes a sensing device for detecting a presence of the heating element cover and a controller having a processor configured to receive an indication from the sensing device confirming whether the heating element cover is engaged with the sensing device and control operation of the oven appliance based on the indication.