Electrolux Home Products, Inc.

Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag

Ashish Ainapure

Christoph Luckhardt

Steven M Swayne

Brendan McGinnis

Paolo Faraldi

Andrew Worley

Massimo Banzato

Timothy Turner

Kurt Reul

Cathy L May

Steve Swayne

Kersten Kaiser

A cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber that defines an oven cavity and a reservoir for holding water that is accessible from within the oven cavity. The cooking appliance further includes a convection heating system, a reservoir heating system, and a control system. The convection heating system includes a convection heating element and a fan for guiding air across the convection heating element. The reservoir heating system includes at least one reservoir heating element. The control system is configured to control the convection heating system and the reservoir heating system to perform a steam cooking operation in response to a user steam-cooking input.

Steam cooking appliance

A method performs sous-vide style cooking in an oven cavity of a cooking appliance, where air, not water, serves as the cooking medium. The oven cavity temperature is regulated around a desired final food temperature using a PID algorithm to control a convection heating element and associated fan.

Air sous-vide

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Hendersonville, TN, United States of America

Ashish Ainapure