A cooking system including a housing having a hollow interior and food being receivable within said hollow interior. A support body supports food within the hollow interior and a heating element is positioned to heat the hollow interior and the support body. A temperature sensor is operable to monitor a temperature of the support body. The temperature sensor is located remotely from said heating element.

Embodiments of a cooking station having a main body and a griddle with a hood pivotably coupled to the griddle are provided. The hood is pivotably moveable between closed and fully open positions. Further, the hood is removable from the griddle to be positioned, for example, along a rear side of the main body in a low-profile position such that the hood may be suspended from the griddle with a hook structure.

A cooking appliance, such as a toaster or oven, has a lifting arm including ribs that form a support surface for a food product in a cooking cavity of the appliance. Each rib can include an opening configured to permit infrared radiation from a heating assembly to pass through the rib to the food product supported by the lifting arm and/or to reduce a thermal mass and capacitance of the lifting arm. The heating assembly can include a support and/or heating element with a curved shape having a concave side facing a cooking cavity. The support and/or heating element can have a planar shape when unstressed and a curved shape when stressed. The heating element may be coupled to the support so as to be slidably movable relative to the support, e.g., so the heating element can slide relative to the support.

A cooking appliance including a first cooking module and a second cooking module. The first cooking module includes a first cooking chamber, a first cooking element arranged in the first cooking chamber, and a first cooking surface, the first cooking element being arranged to heat the first cooking surface. The second cooking module including a second cooking chamber, a second cooking element arranged in the second cooking chamber, and a second cooking surface, the second cooking element being arranged to heat the second cooking surface. The first cooking element includes: an electric cooking element, a gas cooking element, a combination of electric and gas cooking elements, or a bin having a chamber for accommodating hot coals. The second cooking element includes: an electric cooking element, a gas cooking element, a combination of electric and gas cooking elements, or a bin having a chamber for accommodating hot coals.

A cooking system including a housing having a hollow interior and food being receivable within said hollow interior. A support body supports food within the hollow interior and a heating element is positioned to heat the hollow interior and the support body. A temperature sensor is operable to monitor a temperature of the support body. The temperature sensor is located remotely from said heating element.

A cooking system includes a housing having a hollow interior and food is receivable within said hollow interior. A heating element is associated with the housing and a support body supports food within the hollow interior. The support body includes a body having a plurality of diffuser ribs. A plurality of channels is formed between the plurality of diffuser rib and at least one of the plurality of diffuser ribs and the plurality of channels is operable to deflect a relatively downward flowing fluid relatively horizontally across said support body.

The disclosure provides an automatic smokeless oven with far infrared heating including a seat body, a rotating device, an air treatment device and a cooling device. The infrared heater is positioned above a first cavity and used for heating the first cavity so as to prevent grease, sauce and the like from contacting a heating source to generate oily smoke. The rotating device is arranged in a second cavity and used for driving the food to be baked to turn over, so as to realize an automatically turning over of the food. The air treatment device is arranged at the bottom of the first cavity and used for filtering the air in the first cavity to further reduce smoke emission. The cooling device is arranged at the bottom of the first cavity and communicated with the third cavity for driving the cooling water to flow through the third cavity.

An appliance iron for making edible spoons that dissociate into consumable predetermined clumps in order to prevent a dissociating into random granules that would make a consumption more difficult. The appliance iron includes a housing, a plate, and an electrical circuit. The plate is disposed within the housing, and is so shaped for providing the edible spoons that dissociate into the consumable predetermined clumps in order to prevent the dissociating into the random granules that would make the consumption more difficult. The electrical circuit heats up the plate.

An isothermal cooking plate assembly is formed from a first plate of high thermal conductivity material having a back surface and an oppositely disposed top cooking surface. One or more heater circuit assemblies are disposed on the first plate back surface for forming a composite having a back surface. A controller is in electrical connection with the heater circuit assemblies for controlling temperature of the first plate of high thermal conductivity material. The first plate can be Aluminum Type 1100 or Aluminum Type 6061. The first plate can be a laminate formed from a clad bottom metal layer and clad top cooking surface metal layer, where the clad layers formed from the same material and having about the same thickness. The clad material can be austenitic stainless steel. A second plate of low thermal conductivity material can be attached to the composite back surface of first plate.

A cooking device has improved operator interface features, including a counterbalance mechanism operable to retain an upper platen in predetermined open and closed positions, and a non-stick sheet retention feature designed to prevent sagging of a Teflon or other non-stick sheet of material at an upper cooking surface.