A smoker includes a smoke generator that is configured to provide a controllable method of producing smoke without creating a flame. The device includes a housing including a hopper for storing a smoking fuel within the interior of the housing. The hopper feeds the smoking fuel to a fuel conveyor that is partially within the housing and partially exterior of the housing. A motor is connected to the fuel conveyor so that operation of the motor causes the smoking fuel to move along the length of the fuel conveyor. As the smoking fuel moves along the fuel conveyor, it is heated to produce continuous smoke without producing a flame. The smoke generator is capable of controlling the quality and the quantity of the smoke produced by the smoke generator independently of the heat that is used to cook food within a cabinet of the smoker.

A smoker includes a smoke generator that is configured to provide a controllable method of producing smoke without creating a flame. The device includes a housing including a hopper for storing a smoking fuel within the interior of the housing. The hopper feeds the smoking fuel to a fuel conveyor that is partially within the housing and partially exterior of the housing. A motor is connected to the fuel conveyor so that operation of the motor causes the smoking fuel to move along the length of the fuel conveyor. As the smoking fuel moves along the fuel conveyor, it is heated to produce continuous smoke without producing a flame. The smoke generator is capable of controlling the quality and the quantity of the smoke produced by the smoke generator independently of the heat that is used to cook food within a cabinet of the smoker.

An apparatus for liquid dough goods preparation is provided. The device has a base formed of a vertical post and a horizontal beam attached to a top side of the post. A plurality of nipples are arranged along the post for dough dispensing. The nipples are directed at a baking surface for dispensing dough thereon. A dough leveling device is mounted on the horizontal beam. The leveling device has a blower with an outlet directed through the dough leveling device. In operation, as the dough is dispensed, air from the leveling device aids in a spreading and leveling of the dough on the baking surface.

The self-making bread method includes: weighing a certain amount of ingredients according to a bread recipe and placing them in a bread ingredient box; putting the bread ingredient box into the corresponding containing region of the top portion of the bread machine; using the jagged ring of the bottom portion of said containing region to open the thin film of the bottom portion of the bread ingredient box, so the ingredients will fall into the mixing container in the bread machine; controlling the water delivering mechanism inside the bread machine to deliver a certain amount of water into said mixing container; starting the mixing device inside the bread machine, which mixes the ingredients into an appropriate dough; turning off the mixing device; energizing the electric heating tube in the bread machine, to bake the dough inside the mixing container into bread.

An oven for food use comprising a cooking chamber and a device for smoking and/or flavoring foodstuffs that includes at least one container capable of being placed inside the cooking chamber and able to contain substances suitable for generating smoke for smoking and/or vapors for flavoring as well as a heat source provided for transferring heat to said substances for the purpose of smoking and/or flavoring the foodstuffs, the oven comprising at least one temperature sensor provided for detecting the temperature of the substance in the container.

An oven for food use comprising a cooking chamber and a device for smoking and/or flavoring foodstuffs that includes at least one container capable of being placed inside the cooking chamber and able to contain substances suitable for generating smoke for smoking and/or vapors for flavoring as well as a heat source provided for transferring heat to said substances for the purpose of smoking and/or flavoring the foodstuffs, the oven comprising at least one temperature sensor provided for detecting the temperature of the substance in the container.

An oven for food use comprising a cooking chamber, at least one variable-speed electric fan, the rotation of which is controlled by an electric motor, and a device for smoking and/or flavoring foodstuffs, the device comprising at least one container capable of being placed inside the cooking chamber and able to contain substances suitable for generating smoke for smoking and/or vapors for flavoring as well as a heat source provided for transferring heat to said substances for the purpose of smoking and/or flavoring the foodstuffs. The heat source comprises at least one electrical resistance element provided inside the cooking chamber, which element is part of the electrical circuit supplying the motor of the electric fan and is provided so as to be selectively connected to or disconnected from the electrical circuit in order to vary the speed of the fan after power is supplied to the resistance element.

An oven for food use comprising a cooking chamber, at least one variable-speed electric fan, the rotation of which is controlled by an electric motor, and a device for smoking and/or flavoring foodstuffs, the device comprising at least one container capable of being placed inside the cooking chamber and able to contain substances suitable for generating smoke for smoking and/or vapors for flavoring as well as a heat source provided for transferring heat to said substances for the purpose of smoking and/or flavoring the foodstuffs. The heat source comprises at least one electrical resistance element provided inside the cooking chamber, which element is part of the electrical circuit supplying the motor of the electric fan and is provided so as to be selectively connected to or disconnected from the electrical circuit in order to vary the speed of the fan after power is supplied to the resistance element.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for producing irregular pieces of meat from meat products. Further, a method of mass-producing a home-style meat product with an irregular appearance includes combining whole muscle meat with a mixture having a low-phosphate solution and/or a low-salt solution and cooking the combination to produce whole muscle meat logs. Once the whole muscle meat has been cooked, the meat may be pulled, shredded, or sliced on a variety of pulling, shredding, and slicing equipment to create a home-style meat product with an irregular appearance.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for producing irregular pieces of meat from meat products. Further, a method of mass-producing a home-style meat product with an irregular appearance includes combining whole muscle meat with a mixture having a low-phosphate solution and/or a low-salt solution and cooking the combination to produce whole muscle meat logs. Once the whole muscle meat has been cooked, the meat may be pulled, shredded, or sliced on a variety of pulling, shredding, and slicing equipment to create a home-style meat product with an irregular appearance.