An electrically powered crepe maker having a generally cylindrical base unit with an open top portion and a closed bottom portion. A heater element is disposed adjacent the top portion. A bushing is centered within the base unit connected at one end to the bottom portion of the base unit. The bushing has a second end extending to below a plane extending across the open top portion. A generally cylindrical heater plate having a top surface and a bottom surface includes a shaft extending from and centered on the bottom surface. At least one handle is connected to an outer edge of the heater plate. The shaft engages with the bushing so that the heater plate is rotatable on the base unit by using the at least one handle for stopping and starting the rotation of the heater plate.

An electrically powered crepe maker having a generally cylindrical base unit with an open top portion and a closed bottom portion. A heater element is disposed adjacent the top portion. A bushing is centered within the base unit connected at one end to the bottom portion of the base unit. The bushing has a second end extending to below a plane extending across the open top portion. A generally cylindrical heater plate having a top surface and a bottom surface includes a shaft extending from and centered on the bottom surface. At least one handle is connected to an outer edge of the heater plate. The shaft engages with the bushing so that the heater plate is rotatable on the base unit by using the at least one handle for stopping and starting the rotation of the heater plate.

The injection and spreading system for cooking dough, in particular for preparing pancakes includes a dough container having an outlet, an injection pump connected to the outlet of the container, a spreader connected to the injection pump and configured to spread a dough on a cooking surface, an injection circuit connecting the container to the spreader, and a preventer of congestion for the injection circuit. There is also an injection pump, a spreader, a pancake dough premix and a machine associated therewith.

The injection and spreading system for cooking dough, in particular for preparing pancakes includes a dough container having an outlet, an injection pump connected to the outlet of the container, a spreader connected to the injection pump and configured to spread a dough on a cooking surface, an injection circuit connecting the container to the spreader, and a preventer of congestion for the injection circuit. There is also an injection pump, a spreader, a pancake dough premix and a machine associated therewith.

The cooking system for a cooking machine, in particular, a machine for preparing pancakes includes a plurality of cooking devices configured to be successively and cyclically moved to the end of a device for dispensing product to be cooked, in particular of a dough-injection system. There is a driving system for the cooking devices, and a control unit connected to the driving system and to the dispensing device. The control unit is configured to select part of the cooking devices, on which the product to be cooked is dispensed. The invention also relates to an associated automaton, a machine and a cooking method.

The cooking system for a cooking machine, in particular, a machine for preparing pancakes includes a plurality of cooking devices configured to be successively and cyclically moved to the end of a device for dispensing product to be cooked, in particular of a dough-injection system. There is a driving system for the cooking devices, and a control unit connected to the driving system and to the dispensing device. The control unit is configured to select part of the cooking devices, on which the product to be cooked is dispensed. The invention also relates to an associated automaton, a machine and a cooking method.

Various examples are related to making flatbreads such as, e.g., a compact machine for making flatbread in a residential kitchen-type environment or other countertop, tabletop, or space limited applications. In one example, a machine includes a hopper including a mixing chamber configured for bulk addition of raw materials for preparation of flatbread pieces; a mixing assembly configured to blend the raw materials into a flatbread dough mixture; a dough piecing assembly configured to generate a dough piece from an extruded portion of the flatbread dough mixture; a lower platen configured to transfer the pressed flatbread dough piece to a cooking zone on the dough contacting surface for cooking; and a flatbread ejection station configured to remove a cooked flatbread piece from the machine. A second cooking zone can be included to further cook the pressed flatbread dough piece prior to ejection from the machine.

An automated preparation of flatbread, particularly tortillas, by an apparatus for includes packing dough portions in capsules for enabling the dough to be suitable for extended refrigerated and unrefrigerated storage. The capsules are gas-tight sealed with a foil and conveyed in upside-down position on a conveyor belt. The foil is removed by two adjacent shafts which grip the foil and tear it off. The capsule is then positioned on a holding ring and the dough portion falls downwardly onto a lower pressing and baking plate. An upper pressing and baking plate swivels downwardly by an actuator for pressing and baking the dough. After lifting the upper plate away, the finished flat bread glides out of the apparatus.

An automated preparation of flatbread, particularly tortillas, by an apparatus for includes packing dough portions in capsules for enabling the dough to be suitable for extended refrigerated and unrefrigerated storage. The capsules are gas-tight sealed with a foil and conveyed in upside-down position on a conveyor belt. The foil is removed by two adjacent shafts which grip the foil and tear it off. The capsule is then positioned on a holding ring and the dough portion falls downwardly onto a lower pressing and baking plate. An upper pressing and baking plate swivels downwardly by an actuator for pressing and baking the dough. After lifting the upper plate away, the finished flat bread glides out of the apparatus.

A pancake cooking device with two opposable, generally circular, internally heated cooking plates having substantially smooth cooking surfaces that are cooperatively configured to be selectively placed in facing and spaced-apart relation to contact and cook flowable pancake batter disposed between the plates to form a generally circular pancake that, when removed from the device and oriented in a preferred serving position, has a substantially uniform thickness between substantially planar, top and bottom pancake surfaces, and a continuous, circumferentially extending, outwardly inclined and upwardly facing lip of substantially uniform height disposed around the perimeter of the top surface of the pancake. The pancake cooking device is desirably configured to cook each pancake in an inverted position with the circumferentially extending, outwardly inclined lip projecting downwardly and away from the top and bottom pancake surfaces when the cooked pancake is oriented in a preferred serving position.