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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1989
Duane A Lee, Springfield, TN (US);
White Consolidated Industries, Inc., Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A cooking appliance is disclosed which has a cooking control system responsive to selection of a given food to be cooked, for indicating the optimum cooking position of the food in the appliance. The appliance may be an oven, with the indicator indicating the optimum position of a shelf in the oven, or the optimum position of the food on the shelf. In a further disclosed feature, a cooking appliance may have an air circulation system, such as a blower, for circulating air about food to be cooked. A cooking control system is responsive to selection of a given food to be cooked for controlling the air flow about the food for optimum cooking thereof. In another disclosed feature, a cooking appliance which has a control system responsive to the selection of given food and the number of rack positions required, will control the rate of energy released from the oven heat sources for optimum cooking.