A kitchen in a box automatic cooking appliance with various cooking stations and a deep frying station along with selectable lid integrated stirring mechanism with remote stirring power source. Floor and wall mounted ingredient bins and containers along with universal tool carrier to bring in fluidic ingredients to be delivered to cooking stations. Removable components for easy cleaning of the automatic cooking appliance and the components. Heating control by using temperature sensor in contact with cooking vessels by attaching actuator mechanisms on knobs of off the shelf induction and gas stoves.

A convection fryer is composed of a main oil circulating pump, a tube heat exchanger, a fry tank, a continuous oil filtration system, an oil storage holding tank filter frame and filter bag, and a main circulating pump. Cooking oil is pumped by the main circulating pump to the heat exchanger to the fry tank. Oil flows from the tank through the filter screen to the pump trough to the main circulating pump completing the oil circulating loop. At the end of the cooking day the oil is drained to the holding tank for storage while the fry tank is cleaned. In the next fry cycle the oil is pumped up out of the holding tank to the fry tank to start the cooking process all over again.

A high efficiency heating apparatus for heating fluids and cooking mediums, such as oil or shortening within a fryer, includes a natural draft (non powered) combustion chamber that is affixed to an exterior surface of a fry tank.

The present invention belongs to the field of food processing, and particularly to an oil barrel and an electric fryer having the same; wherein, the oil barrel comprises an outer shell shaped as a barrel, an inner shell shaped as a barrel, disposed in a barrel cavity of the outer shell, and having a distance from the outer shell, and a shell connector configured to connect the outer shell with the inner shell and connected between a lip edge of the outer shell and a lip edge of the inner shell; the outer shell, the inner shell and the shell connector cooperatively define a thermal insulation chamber; the outer shell of the oil barrel is provided with a vacuuming interface structure, which is configured to cooperate with a vacuuming device to evacuate air from the thermal insulation chamber and make the thermal insulation chamber become a vacuum chamber.

A robotic system for cooking food products, including: (a) a robotic arm, wherein the robotic arm includes a pair of opposing gripping members, and wherein the robotic arm is horizontally displaceable within a first plane, vertically displaceable within a second plane, and pivotally displaceable about a first axis; (b) a cooking reservoir basin for containing oil, wherein the cooking reservoir basin includes a basket flipping plate, and one or more basket holders; (c) a cooked food products basin for containing cooked food products; (d) means for heating oil in the cooking reservoir basin; (e) an optional hopper for supplying food products; and (f) a control panel for controlling/directing the robotic arm.

A portable kitchen assembly for cold storage and cooking of food items includes a housing, which defines an interior space. A power module is engaged to the housing. A cooktop is engaged to an upper facet of the housing and is operationally engaged to the power module. An oven is engaged to the housing and is positioned in the interior space so that a door of the oven is accessible from a front of the housing. Food items can be heated on the cooktop or baked or cooked in the oven. A cooling unit is engaged to the housing and is positioned in the interior space so that a door of the cooling unit is accessible from the front of the housing. The cooling unit provides cold storage for a food item. A set of wheels is engaged to a lower facet of the housing allows for locomotion of the housing across a surface.

A food frying treatment apparatus includes: a frying oil circulation mechanism which makes frying oil flow out from a frying oil tank on a downstream side and makes the frying oil flow in the frying oil tank on an upstream side by a frying oil inflow device which ejects the frying oil in an upward direction from a bottom portion side of the frying oil tank; a frying food transport mechanism including a first transport mechanism which transports the food fed into the frying oil tank on the upstream side in a floating state on a surface of the frying oil, and a second transport mechanism which transports a frying food subsequently to the first transport mechanism in an immersed state below the surface of the frying oil in the frying oil tank; and a fried food collection mechanism which collects a fried food from the frying oil tank.

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.

A method for filling a fryer pot in a fryer with a volume of cooking oil includes determining if the fryer has commenced a setpoint control operation, and opening a valve and activating a pump to fill the fryer pot with oil when the fryer has commenced the setpoint control operation.

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.