A gas fryer and associated methods of cooking food products are disclosed. The gas fryer includes an infrared burner and a fry pot including an interior casing defining a cooking chamber, with the interior casing including a bottom wall and opposing sidewalls that extend upwardly from the bottom wall. The opposing sidewalls include lower, central, and upper sidewall panels that are angled from one another to define a tapered profile that narrows towards the bottom wall. The tapering of a well defined at a lower chamber portions of the cooking chamber allows for a shallow depth at this portion of the fry pot and easy visibility and access for cleaning. Furthermore, the opposing sidewalls and a rear end wall of the interior casing include heat exchange fins on an external surface.

Provided is a household electrical food-cooking appliance including: a housing having a container arranged such as to receive the food to be cooked; a removable cover arranged such as to close the container while cooking; at least one safety switch arranged in the housing in order to turn off at least one electrical circuit of the appliance when the cover is not closing the container and in order to turn on said at least one electrical circuit when the cover is closing the container; and a cam having at least one control surface arranged such as to actuate a key for controlling said at least one safety switch in a direction in which the control key is pressed. Said appliance is characterized in that the cover includes a control finger arranged such as to actuate a surface for inputting the cam in a direction for moving the input surface in a direction that is different from the one in which the key is pressed while the container is open, such as to turn off said at least one electrical circuit, and while the container is closed, such as to turn on said at least one electrical circuit.

Apparatus for cooking food has a lid (18), a base (12) and a container (14) removable from the base (12) and suitable to contain food. A first heating unit (16a) associated with the base (12) has a plurality of electric heating elements (22) configured to achieve a specific heating surface to heat the container (14) and to be selectively activateable depending on the sizes and position of the container (14) on said base (12). The first heating unit (16a) has a control and command unit (20) associated with the heating elements (22) and sensitive elements (28) configured to recognize the position, size and shape of the container (14) and is configured to selectively command the heating elements (22) on the basis of the recognition by the sensitive elements (28) of which heating elements (22) are activated or can be activated in order to heat the container (14) directly.

An apparatus for cooking food (10) includes a casing (14), a lid (20) and at least a support unit (11). The casing (14) has a compartment in which to insert a container (12) which may be temporally associated with the support unit (11), and the support unit (11) may be configured to temporally support the container (12) with respect to a support plane. The apparatus for cooking food (10) also includes a first heating unit (16a), a second heating unit (16b), a third heating unit (16c) and a weighing unit (18) associated with a control unit (36).

A fryer includes: an oil tank; and a heater, the fryer being configured to heat a frying oil stored in the oil tank by the heater so as to fry a food material put into the oil tank, the oil tank including an upper oil tank in which the heater is arranged and the food material is to be fried, and a lower oil tank provided below the upper oil tank so as to be continuous with the upper oil tank, and configured to sink and collect moisture and fried scraps released from the food material into the upper oil tank, the heater including a side heater partitioning an inside of the upper oil tank into one or a plurality of cooking areas, and surrounding the one or the plurality of cooking areas, and a lower heater provided at a bottom of the one or the plurality of cooking areas.

An apparatus for cooking food under atmospheric or pressure environment or in a basket while immersed in a batch of cooking liquid. The cooking vessel is controllably heated and the level of the cooking liquid is controlled by at least one capacitor in contact electrical contact with a capacitor sensor in fluid communication with the cooking liquid and a controller for controlling the temperature and amount of cooking liquid in the cooking vessel at various stages of the cooking process.

A cooking apparatus comprises a heated compartment to warm cooking media that may be packaged in metal containers or the like. The heater system includes at least one heater disposed at a location to heat the bottom of the unused cooking medium container. The heater system may also include at least one heater disposed at a location to heat at least one side of the unused cooking medium container. A cooking apparatus comprises at least one supply reservoir, a fluid motive device, various enclosed cooking medium conductors or lines, a three-way valve that introduces air for purging the lines, and a cooking medium receiving system.

Reduced cooking liquid usage deep fryers, particularly adapted to cooking fowl, as well as other articles. Cooking liquid storage and filtering apparatus. Heating element structure configured to reduce the overall height of a deep fryer. Food support apparatus which simplify food handling. Cooking vessel configurations configured to reduce cooking liquid usage. Volume displacement members which may reduce cooking liquid usage. Fry basket construction. Food support and containment structures. Cooking liquid overflow safety structures. Passive condensation exhaust filtering. Apparatus allowing the cooking of stuffing and/or other articles, while deep frying a fowl or other articles. Removable dual food support handles. Food support apparatus for deep fryers which deep fry only a portion of unitary food article at one time.

Embodiments to deep fat fry comestibles, including large food items. Such embodiments potentially being versatile enough to at least: deep fry, steam, bake, slow cook, and boil foods. Embodiments comprising contained food support vessels immersed into frying temperature cooking liquid baths, as well as boiling water, as well as hot air. Automatic fryer cleaning systems, utilizing food support vessels which drain through filter media. Contained food support vessels capped by lids. Unitary filter media configured to selectively remove debris and pollutants from both gasses and liquids exiting food support vessels. Condensation filtering into easy to empty and clean collection cups. Safety cooking liquid overflow protection into easily to empty and clean cups. A versatile, compactable funnel which may double as a cutting and food preparation surface.

Disclosed is a frying machine using an induction heating method. A frying machine using an induction heating method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a case; an oil storage tank that includes a cooking area which is formed inside the case such that an upper portion thereof is opened and in which frying oil is accommodated and an object to be fried is fried, and a carbonization preventing area which is formed below the cooking area and in which frying oil having a relatively low temperature as compared with that of the cooking, area is located; an induction heating part that includes am induction heating coil which is formed outside the oil storage tank to surround at least a portion of the cooking area and heats the frying oil using an induction heating method; and a control unit that controls a temperature of the induction heating coil.