A cooking appliance is provided. The cooking appliance comprises a cooker body for receiving food and a lid for covering the cooker body. The cooking appliance has a front side for facilitating cooking operations and a rear side spaced apart from the front side. The cooker body comprises at least one latch slot disposed on an inclined rear side of the cooker body. The lid comprises at least one latch bar disposed on a periphery thereof and extending outwardly therefrom. When the lid is detached from the cooker body, the latch bar is operable to be inserted into the corresponding latch slot to secure the lid at the inclined rear side of the cooker body, allowing a user to secure the lid to the latch slot without reaching a rear side of the cooker body by hand, and to retrieve the food without accidentally contacting the lid.

A preparation vessel arranged on a kitchen appliance base of a kitchen appliance, having at least one preparation space, at least one lid for closing the preparation space, at least one actuator element, and at least one actuating means, wherein the actuator element is movably mounted in an interface area relative to the kitchen appliance base, the actuating means being actuated by the actuator element, and the lid configured to lock or unlock by actuating the actuating means. A kitchen appliance having a preparation vessel is also provided. The preparation vessel and a kitchen appliance, which functions for the preparation of food with an enhanced ease of operation and high user safety, are realized in that at least one valve and at least one valve actuating are provided, and that the valve actuating means can at least be indirectly actuated with the actuating means.

A pressure cooker is provided. The pressure cooker comprises a base comprising a bottom and at least one sidewall extending from a perimeter of the bottom, a base flange extending about a perimeter of the at least one sidewall opposite the bottom, the bottom and the at least one sidewall defining, at least in part, an interior of the base; and a lid hingedly coupled to the base such that the lid is moveable between an open position that allows access to the interior of the base and a closed position that prevents access to the interior of the base, the lid comprising a lid flange about its perimeter. The pressure cooker further comprises one or more of a pressure release assembly; a spring-loaded hinge assembly; or a clamp assembly.

A cooking system includes a housing defining a hollow chamber configured to receive food. The housing has an upper portion defining an opening to said hollow chamber. A lid is movable relative to the housing between an open position and a closed position. The lid seals the opening to the hollow chamber when in the closed position. A portion of the lid is selectively positionable to form a pressure-tight heating volume between the hollow chamber and the portion of said lid. At least one heating element is associated with at least one of the housing and the lid. The at least one heating element is arranged within the pressure-tight heating volume.

A cooking appliance includes a pot lid having a cross section with a long axis and a short axis orthogonal to each other, a pot body including a limiting boss provided at an upper surface of the pot body and configured to abut against an outer peripheral edge of the pot lid when the pot lid is closed, and a pot lid locking assembly configured to lock the pot lid in a closed state. The pot lid locking assembly includes at least one of a lid locking part disposed at the pot lid or a pot locking part disposed at the pot body.

A cooking system includes a housing defining a hollow chamber configured to receive food. The housing has an upper portion defining an opening to said hollow chamber. A lid is movable relative to the housing between an open position and a closed position and has an interior lid cavity. An air movement device is positioned to move air through at least one of the hollow chamber and the interior lid cavity in a direction of flow. At least one vent is disposed in at least one of the lid and the housing and includes a leading end and a trailing end relative to the direction of flow. The at least one vent is openable to have a greater airflow capacity at the leading end relative to the trailing end or openable to have a greater airflow capacity at the trailing end relative to the leading end.

The invention relates to a food pressure cooking appliance including a bowl and a lid intended to be locked relative to the bowl to form with the latter a cooking chamber adapted to rise in pressure. The appliance includes bayonet locking means forming first and second series of protrusions that are integral with the envelope of the lid and the envelope of the bowl, respectively, and that are intended to cooperate with each other to ensure the locking of the lid relative to the bowl. Each protrusion of at least one of the series consists of a volume element that has opposite convex and concave faces and is formed by a localized radial deformation of the corresponding envelope.

The invention relates to a pressure cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a lid with an annular skirt, and a gasket interposed between the lid and the vessel, said gasket including a ring and a first lip in sealing contact with the top wall of the lid, said utensil being characterized in that it includes a leakage opening formed through said top wall, the annular skirt forming a stop abutment for the ring, said first lip presenting flexibility that is suitable, when the pressure that exists inside the enclosure exceeds a safety threshold, for causing the inside of the enclosure to communicate with the outside through the leakage opening.

A cooking system includes a housing defining a hollow chamber configured to receive food, a controller configured to operate the cooking system in a plurality of modes including a conductive cooking mode and a convective cooking mode, a first temperature sensor operable by the controller to detect temperature in the hollow chamber during the conductive cooking mode, and a second temperature sensor operable by the controller to detect temperature in the hollow chamber during the convective cooking mode. The controller is configured to receive an initial user input that initiates at least one of the conductive cooking mode and the convective cooking mode and switch between operation of the first temperature sensor and the second temperature sensor following the initial user input and without further user input.

A cooking system includes a housing defining a hollow chamber configured to receive food. The housing has an upper portion defining an opening to said hollow chamber. A lid is movable relative to the housing between an open position and a closed position. The lid seals the opening to the hollow chamber when in the closed position. A portion of the lid is selectively positionable to form a pressure-tight heating volume between the hollow chamber and the portion of said lid. At least one heating element is associated with at least one of the housing and the lid. The at least one heating element is arranged within the pressure-tight heating volume.