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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2003
Mark A. Boyer, Harrison, TN (US);
Maytag Corporation, Newton, IA (US);
Abstract
A cooking appliance employing rapid cook technology includes a controller which calculates rapid cook times from conventional cooking times input by a user. That is, for relatively long convection cooking cycles, such as a convection roasting mode, after a user enters a standard radiant cooking time into a control panel, an electronic controller subtracts a certain percentage, preferably 25%, off of the standard time to establish a rapid cook time. In one preferred embodiment, the rapid cook time is presented in a display and used as the actual cook time for the cooking operation. In another preferred embodiment, the standard cooking time is established for the cooking operation, but the user is signaled to check the food when the rapid cook time expires.