Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Ning Zhou

Yun Chen

Weimin Xiao

Wen Sun

Xiaoyun Kui

Xinzhong Lai

Yanling Gao

Air-based fryer including a food preparation chamber including an outer wall, an inner wall defining a food receiving space with an air inlet and an air discharge opening, and a circulation channel defined between the outer wall and the inner wall. The fryer includes an air heater for heating air in the food preparation chamber, a fan for moving a flow of hot air successively through the air inlet, the food receiving space, the discharge opening, and the channel. The fryer includes a steam generator including at least one nozzle extending into the food receiving space for spraying temperature-controlled steam onto the food; and a controller adapted to control the steam generator to spray steam to food placed in the food receiving space for a first predetermined period, and to control the air heater and the fan to circulate hot air to the food for a subsequent second predetermined period.

Apparatus and method for preparing food

An air guide member, for an apparatus for preparing food by circulation of hot air in a food preparation chamber, includes an air deflecting structure and a protected region for collecting residual material from the food preparation chamber. The air deflecting structure has a deflection surface with a deflection orientation that leads away from the protected region.

Air guide member in an air-based fryer

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Ning Zhou