Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Jan Vaupot

Stefan Hans Sauer

Christian Mikula

Marcel Sladecek

Gerald Kauer

Christian Egger

Ingolf Ronald Eberhart

Ingrid Hiet-Brink

Markus Oswald Grubelnig

There is provided an air-based fryer including a housing defining a cooking chamber; a basket for supporting food items to be cooked, and to be mounted in the cooking chamber during a cooking operation; an air guiding element located above the basket; an air mover for circulating air within the cooking chamber, such that air is directed towards the air guiding element and then guided downwards by the air guiding element through the basket; and a heater for heating the air circulated by the air mover.

Advanced air fryer

A cooking device is for cooking food on a support (e.g. in a basket) within a cooking chamber. A required cooking time is determined based only on the time-evolution of the cooking chamber temperature and a power of the heating device. A first, less accurate, estimate of the required cooking time is determined within a first period, e.g. 90 seconds, of the turning on of the heating device and a second, more accurate, estimate of the required cooking is determined later, but e.g. within five minutes of the turning on of the heating device.

Cooking device and cooking method

The present application relates to a cooking apparatus () comprising a cooking chamber (), a basket () disposed within the cooking chamber () to receive food () to be cooked, a heating element () disposed above the food basket () for heating air flowing out from the food basket (), an air circulation system () for circulating the heated air upwards within the food basket () and a filter element () disposed between the food basket () and the heating element (). The filter element () is spaced from the heating element (). The filter element () comprises an air-permeable meshed structure for retaining particles contained in the air flowing out from the food basket (). The food basket () comprises an upper opening (), and the filter element () extends entirely over the upper opening ().

Cooking apparatus with filter element

The present application relates to an air based fryer () for preparing food ingredients. The air based fryer comprises a food preparation chamber (), an air heater () for heating air in the food preparation chamber () and a fan () for circulating a flow of hot air in the food preparation chamber (). The air-based fryer () further comprises a fluid inlet () for the introduction of a fluid directly into the circulating flow of hot air. This solution allows increasing the humidity of the flow of hot air results in superior quality food in terms of taste, texture, and aesthetics and increases the versatility of the air-based flyer.

Apparatus and method for preparing food ingredients with hot air and fluid introduced thereinto

An air-based fryer apparatus () includes a shield () for use in a cooking apparatus (), the cooking apparatus having a food preparation chamber () to receive a food support (), a system () for circulating a flow of hot air inside the food preparation chamber () and a heating element () to heat at least the circulated air. The shield (), disposed between the heating element () and the food support (), comprises a plurality of inclined surfaces () and a plurality of apertures () between the inclined surfaces () through which the flow of hot air can pass. The inclined surfaces () block a direct line of sight through the apertures () in the shield () from the heating element () to the food support () to prevent air flowing from the food support () to the heating element () through the apertures without being deflected by the inclined surfaces.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Jan Vaupot