Electrolux Professional S.p.a.

Paolo Marcorin

Riccardo Furlanetto

Michele Simonato

Paolo Cescot

Erika Menosso

Smoker

A cooking equipment includes an oven cavity (); at least one energy source (), operable to provide energy to food placed inside the oven cavity (); a plurality of sensors (), configured to provide respective measurement signals (STC, STWR, STWI, STE, STF, . . . , STFN, SH), indicative of respective quantities relating to a cooking process for cooking food in the oven cavity (); and a control device (), having at least one cooking program stored therein and configured to drive the at least one energy source () in accordance with the cooking program, based on the measurement signals (STC, STWR, STWI, STE, STF, . . . , STFN, SH) from the sensors (). The cooking equipment also includes a storage unit (), which contains first data () indicative of energy required to carry out the at least one cooking program; and a processing unit (), configured to determine, for the cooking program, an expected energy consumption level (EECL) from the first data () and an actual energy consumption level (AECL) and to detect the presence of a malfunction based on a comparison of the expected energy consumption level (EECL) and of the actual energy consumption level (AECL).

Cooking equipment and a method of detecting operating conditions of a cooking equipment

A cooking equipment includes a first database, containing first energy consumption data, indicating energy required to maintain, operating conditions prescribed by a cooking program stored in a control device, in the absence of food; and a second database, containing second energy consumption data-indicating additional energy to be supplied in excess of energy of the first energy consumption data to have a unit weight of the food processed according to the cooking program. The control device includes a processing unit that estimates daily energy consumption for the cooking program from the first and second energy consumption data. The first energy consumption data relate to respective individual iterations of the cooking process and include an initial energy excess associated with a first iteration of consecutive iterations of the cooking process; and a common energy level indicative of energy associated with subsequent iterations of the consecutive iterations of the cooking process.

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Paolo Marcorin