An air fryer comprises an air flow passage provided between an inner shell and an outer shell; a first cooking chamber having a first cooking fan in air flow communication with the first cooking chamber and a first heating element in thermal communication with the first cooking chamber. A cooling fan, when actuated, circulates air within the airflow passage. A common motor is drivingly connected to each of the cooking fan and the cooling fan, wherein a first axle portion drivingly connects the common motor to the cooking fan, a second axle portion drivingly connects the common motor to the cooling fan and, when the air fryer is positioned with the bottom on a horizontal surface, the first axle portion extends upwardly from an upper side of the common motor and the second axle portion extends downwardly from a lower side of the common motor.

Food preparation includes utilizing food immersion into low temperature cooking fluids, high temperature cooking fluids, or a combination of applications thereof. Foods are generally closely wrapped in vented, pliable, formidable outer skins. An example construction of such an outer skin is provided, as are examples of food preparation processes.

The invention relates to an insert (10) for an apparatus (100) for preparing food by circulation of a flow of hot air in a food basket (14) placed inside a food preparation chamber and having a bottom part (108) with a lower opening area (26) for the circulation of the flow of hot air. The insert comprises an upper surface (12) intended to be arranged below the food basket. The upper surface (12) defines an inclined surface (16) having a downward inclination extending outwards from a middle zone towards a perimeter of the insert. The inclined surface (16) is provided such that the inclination extends at least beyond a vertical projection of the lower opening area (26). The insert further comprises spacers (40) provided on a lower side (42) of the insert to create a clearance gap (44) between the lower side (42) and a bottom surface (46) of the food preparation chamber. This invention allows improving food preparation while minimizing the emission of cooking oil fumes.

Disclosed is a steam-type air fryer including a main body. A chamber is disposed in the main body. A heating element is disposed in the main body. An air duct plate is disposed on an upper side of the chamber. A hot air wind wheel and a heating tube are disposed in the air duct plate. The steam-type air fryer further includes a door sealing structure, wherein an openable door panel and a door frame are disposed on a side of the air fryer. An opening is provided in a side of the chamber facing the door panel. A second sealing ring is mounted between the door frame and the door panel. The steam-type air fryer further includes a water tank mounted at the top of the steam-type air fryer and including a water tank body and a top cover located on the top of the water tank body.

Disclosed is a steam-type air fryer, including: an air outlet structure, including a body shell, the body shell is provided therein with a cooking cavity, a steam generator in the body shell generates hot steam which is introduced into the cooking cavity, the cooking cavity is provided with an air outlet hole for discharging residual steam, a cold wind passage into which external cold air enters is formed between the cooking cavity and the body shell; and a water inlet structure, including an air fryer main body, an upper end of the air fryer main body is provided with a water tank seat, the water tank seat is detachably provided with a water tank, wherein the water tank is provided therein with a water outlet seat extending upward, the water tank seat is provided with a water outlet pipe corresponding to the water outlet seat.

An on-demand automated aseptic fryer may be used to prepare multiple types of fried foods without requiring vats of hot oil. The fried foods that may be prepared include, for example, donuts or potatoes, or any other fried foods that can be prepared from a dry mixture that produces a dough when mixed with water. Alternatively, the dry mixture may include a dried, powdered or reconstituted fruits or vegetables that are subsequently mixed with water. The entire process is automated once the process is initiated by a user and thus does not require an attendant during the frying process, which in some implementations can be completed in less than about 1.5 minutes once initiated.

There is provided a cooking apparatus for cooking multiple food items, including: a housing including multiple separate cooking bays; a control module communicatively linked to each of the cooking bays to receive or determine a cooking time and cooking temperature for the food item received by the respective cooking bay; and a coordination module configured to: determine a total cooking time for each of a plurality of the cooking bays; determine the cooking bay with the longest associated cooking time; determine an offset of the start of the cooking process for each of the other cooking bays such that the cooking times of all the cooking bays end approximately simultaneously; and at each determined offset, direct the respective cooking bay to start the cooking process at the cooking temperature.

The present invention relates to an air-based flyer (10) apparatus comprising a food preparation chamber (140) comprising an outer wall (11), an inner wall (14) defining a food receiving space (141) with an air inlet (142) and an air discharge opening (145), and a circulation channel (113) defined between the outer wall (11) and the inner wall (14). The apparatus also comprises an air heater (13) for heating air in the food preparation chamber (140), a fan (192) for moving a flow of hot air successively through the air inlet (142), the food receiving space (141), the discharge opening (145), and the channel (113). The apparatus also comprises a steam generator (12) comprising at least one nozzle (127) extending into the food receiving space (141) for spraying temperature-controlled steam (18) onto the food; and a controller (15) adapted to control the steam generator to spray steam to food placed in the food receiving space (141) for a first predetermined period, and to control the air heater (13) and the fan (192) to circulate hot air to the food for a subsequent second predetermined period. This apparatus allows keeping the tenderness or crunchiness of the food during subsequent hot air cooking.

The present invention related to an air fryer, which is designed for solving technical matters existed among current similar products, such as weak structure design, safety and oil filter structures which need to be further improved. The pot body of the air fryer is integrated by pot housing, inner pot, outer pot and handle, and the engine body is integrated by upper casing, lower casing and base; the key point that is the inner diameter bottom of inner pot is equipped with oil-filter screen that is fixed by the clips inside the hole of inner pot; the handle and the pot housing is integrated through locking plate. The locking plate is L-shaped, with one end stick into the pot housing and fit with the metal sheet on the inner wall of the pot housing, and the other end against the locking sheet through tilted cover. The locking sheet at the handle side is tilted. When pressing the locking sheet, the locking plate will be driven by the tilted cover to rotate. When place the pot body into the engine body, the hook of the pot housing will fit with the hook hole of the base; the upper casing corresponding to the limiting diagonal bar of the handle is equipped with column plate, and the limiting column inside the upper casing sticks out of the column plate through the spring and against the slope side of the limiting diagonal bar.

In an apparatus for heating and/or cooking foodstuffs, in particular meat products, comprising an appliance housing with at least one opening, an accommodating device for the meat products to be heated, a heating device associated with the accommodating device and having one or more heating elements, the accommodating device has one or more accommodating compartments which is accessible by way of the opening, and an insertion cassette which corresponds to a respective accommodating compartment and which can be loaded with one or more meat products in a predetermined orientation relative to each other and is adapted to be introduced into and removed again from the accommodating compartment.