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. A lid lock is associated with at least one of the lid and the housing. The lid is configurable between a lid locked condition with the housing and a lid unlocked condition with the housing via the lid lock. At least one vent is disposed in at least one of the lid and the housing, and the at least one vent is configurable between an open vent condition and a closed vent condition via actuation of the lid lock.

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.

An electric pressure cooker includes: a main body, an internal pot, a lid coupling ring configured to rotate relative to the main body, an internal lid that is disposed in the lid coupling ring and that defines a steam inlet, a steam discharge module configured to rotate relative to the internal lid and discharge steam; a lid handle that is configured to rotate the lid coupling ring relative to the main body and that includes a button configured to receive external force; and an external force delivery part configured to receive the external force from the button and transmit the external force to rotate the steam discharge module. The button is configured to: in a first manipulation state, allow rotation of the lid handle; and in a second manipulation state, apply the external force to the external force delivery part to thereby rotate the steam discharge module.

A cooking appliance is provided. The lid comprises a pressure-limiting valve, a lever, and a button assembly comprising a steam-discharging button and a button seat, the steam-discharging button being fastened to the button seat and being vertically movable for actuating the lever to activate the pressure-limiting valve for steam discharging. The button assembly comprises a guiding rod, the steam-discharging button comprises a heart-shaped groove. A downward movement of the steam-discharging button causes a first end of the guiding rod to slide within the heart-shaped groove. When the steam-discharging button is released, the first end of the guiding rod slides to a position for lockingly engaging with the heart-shaped groove, to keep the steam-discharging button at a steam-discharging position. Pressing the steam-discharging button once will lock the steam-discharging button for continuous steam discharging without the need to keep holding the button, thereby simplifying the discharging operation over prior art.

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.

The invention relates to an appliance for cooking food under pressure. The appliance includes a vessel and a lid for locking relative to the vessel to cooperate therewith to form a cooking enclosure suitable for rising in pressure. The appliance also includes bayonet locking means forming first and second series of projections that are secured respectively to the shell of the lid and to the shell of the vessel which cooperate with one another to lock the lid to the vessel. Each projection of at least one of said series is adjacent to a respective opening formed through the corresponding shell.

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.

Pressure cooker having a lid comprising a lid handle and a cooking vessel comprising a vessel handle, wherein the cooking vessel is closeable with the lid in a fluid-tight manner by means of a closure mechanism by the lid handle and the vessel handle being placed one above the other, wherein one of the two handles comprises a coupling group which has two coupling elements which can be mechanically coupled to, or uncoupled from, each other, and the other of the two handles comprises a coupling device constructed for said coupling together and/or said uncoupling in such a manner that, when the lid handle and the vessel handle are placed one above the other, the two coupling elements are either mechanically uncoupled from each other by means of the coupling device or mechanically coupled to each other.

The invention provides a bayonet-fitting pressure-cooking utensil having a vessel and a lid, said utensil including a support attached to said lid so that said lid can pivot relative to said support, the support and the vessel being configured to be united in a predetermined relative arrangement enabling the lid to be locked to the vessel, said support forming a first positioning element that projects radially beyond the lid and that is designed such that, when the support and the vessel are united in said predetermined relative arrangement, said first positioning element interacts mechanically with a second positioning element to lock the relative angular positioning of the support and of the vessel, while also allowing said handle to project radially outwards beyond said support.

The invention relates to a cooking utensil for cooking food under pressure including a vessel, a lid, and a bayonet-fitting locking system, said cooking utensil includes a control member for controlling locking that is attached to said support via a mechanical coupling allowing said control member to be moved, and is connected to the lid via a movement transformation device for transforming said movement of the control member into pivoting of the lid, said mechanical coupling being configured so that said manual movement of the control member is formed by a movement in rotation about an axis of rotation (Y-Y) parallel to the central vertical axis (X-X) and/or by a movement in translation.