CN114209221A - Cooking equipment and changeable modular smoking and baking device thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of kitchen electrical equipment, and particularly provides cooking equipment and a changeable modular smoking and baking device thereof, wherein the cooking equipment comprises a cooking main body, the cooking main body is provided with a cooking cavity, the smoking and baking device is placed in the cooking cavity, the smoking and baking device comprises a plurality of smoking and baking units, each smoking and baking unit comprises at least one smoking and baking module, and each smoking and baking module comprises: a smoking part, wherein a containing space for placing smoking materials is formed in the smoking part; and a heating part which can give out heat to the smoking material so that the smoking material can emit smoking fragrance by means of the heat; the smoking and roasting device is also provided with a communicating part, and the fragrance emitted by the smoking material can be emitted to the food material to be cooked in the cooking cavity through the communicating part; wherein at least one part of the smoking and roasting units can be movably arranged through the first/second modes. By such an arrangement, the food can be provided with rich fumigating fragrance.

Description

Cooking equipment and changeable modular smoking and baking device thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of kitchen electrical equipment, in particular to cooking equipment and a changeable modular smoking and baking device thereof.

Background

With the overall development of technologies related to the field of household appliances, household appliances are developed on two aspects of enrichment and refinement. As one of home appliances, electric cooking appliances are mainly cooking appliances for preserving, processing, and the like food materials, and with the development of enrichment and refinement, for example, in addition to a conventional gas range, a refrigerator, a microwave oven, and the like, specific forms corresponding to various cooking modes such as steaming, baking, frying, air-frying, and the like are also emerging.

As one of cooking devices, a hot air oven has an operating principle that cooking of food materials is realized by circulating hot air flow. Specifically, along with the circulating flow of hot air in the liner where the food to be cooked is located, when the hot air flows through the food, heat carried in the hot air can be transferred to the surface of the food, and the food can be processed in a hot air baking cooking mode by correspondingly controlling parameters such as the flow rate and the temperature of the hot air. Wherein, when the food material is meat, there is an auxiliary processing mode after the roasting is finished: after the food material is processed by the hot air oven and taken out, flavor seasonings (such as sauce brushing, material scattering and the like) are added on the surface of the food material to improve the taste of the food material. However, such a processing method has problems as follows: because the food materials are cooked after being processed and taken out, the flavor seasoning corresponding to the auxiliary treatment is difficult to permeate into the meat, and especially for single large-scale food materials such as whole chicken and whole fish, the improvement degree of the taste of the whole food materials by the auxiliary treatment is very limited.

As an improvement, as disclosed in chinese utility model patent (CN209826361U), a smokeless oven with smoking function includes a box body, a smoking box is provided inside the box body, an air intake component and a smoke exhaust component are provided on the wall of the box body, the air intake component and the smoke exhaust component are both communicated with the outside and the inside of the box body; a filter is arranged in the smoke exhaust assembly.

It can be seen that in this document, the smoking cartridge is supplied with aerobic air through the air intake assembly of the oven, so that the fuel in the smoking cartridge is continuously maintained in a semi-combusted state capable of generating smoke. Based on the method, the food can be baked by introducing the smoking cooking mode into the oven, and compared with the mode of baking by directly adopting hot air flow, the baked food has lasting and internal and external incense. However, since the smoke flavor is determined by the fuel property in the smoke box, the smoke method has the following problems: the fumigating smell is single. In addition, the smoking box serves as a smoke generating mechanism, and the core function of the smoking box is embodied as that a direct heat source for cooking is generated by means of an air inlet assembly of the oven, so that in order to ensure the cooking effect, a smoke quality-hot air flow quality associated control mechanism which is strictly matched with the cooking requirement of food materials needs to be made.

Accordingly, there is a need in the art for a new solution to the above problems.

Disclosure of Invention

Technical problem

The present invention has been made to solve at least some of the above-mentioned problems, and more particularly, to solve at least some of the above-mentioned problems to at least some extent.

Technical scheme

In view of the above, a first aspect of the present invention provides a convertible modular smoke curing device of a cooking apparatus, the cooking apparatus comprising a cooking body having a cooking chamber, the smoke curing device being disposed in the cooking chamber, the smoke curing device comprising a plurality of smoke curing units, the smoke curing units comprising at least one smoke curing module, the smoke curing module comprising: a smoking part, wherein a containing space for placing smoking materials is formed in the smoking part; and a heating part which can give out heat to the smoking material so that the smoking material can emit smoking fragrance by means of the heat; the smoking and roasting device is also provided with a communicating part, and the fragrance emitted by the smoking material can be emitted to the food material to be cooked in the cooking cavity through the communicating part; wherein, can set up movably through the first mode between at least partly in the unit of smoking, can set up movably through the second mode between at least partly in the unit of smoking.

With such an arrangement, an auxiliary cooking effect of adding a smoked flavor to the food to be cooked can be achieved.

Specifically, during cooking in which the cooking apparatus performs main cooking on food to be cooked, the smoke is heated by the heating portion to emit a smoke fragrance, thereby adding an auxiliary cooking effect to the main cooking. Since the smoking device is only used as an auxiliary cooking mechanism, which is not necessarily related to the core function of the cooking device, a control mechanism strongly related to the heat medium of the main cooking is not required to be established.

On the basis, the operation parameters (such as heating intensity, total heating time, heating origin and destination) of the heating part are adjusted, so that the incense can be distributed to the food to be cooked in an expected manner. On this basis, just can be when the edible material of treating the culinary art accomplishes the culinary art, under the prerequisite that the edible material of treating the culinary art can attach smoked flavor, the taste that the smoked flavor can satisfy food better. For example, the aroma is more tasty than applying sauce after the food is taken out; and the like.

It should be noted that the distribution of the "incense emitted from the incense material can be distributed to the food material to be cooked through the communication part" includes various forms, such as direct distribution or indirect distribution, and the direct distribution or the indirect distribution can be realized through different distribution paths. On the basis of this, the form of the communicating portion may also be diversified accordingly, such as one or more communicating structures may be included, and the structural form, arrangement orientation, and the like of the communicating structure may be flexibly determined. For example, if the food material to be cooked is located above the grilling device, the distribution paths include three types, the first type is directly distributed by a vertical upward distribution path (e.g., the communication portion is disposed right above the smoking portion), the second type is directly distributed by an oblique upward distribution path (e.g., the communication portion is disposed on the side portion of the smoking portion), and the third type is indirectly distributed by a curved path (e.g., after the smoke flavor is distributed, the smoke flavor flows out of the cooking chamber where the food material to be cooked is located along with the hot air flow in the hot air oven, and the smoke flavor is heated by the heating pipe of the hot air oven and then is sent into the cooking chamber where the food material is located again); and the like.

It can be understood that, on the premise of ensuring that the smoking material can receive the heat to be emitted, the specific forms of the smoking material part and the heating part, the position relationship between the two parts and the like can be determined by those skilled in the art according to the actual situation. For example, the heating part can be directly arranged (such as embedded or fixed) on the smoking part or connected with the smoking part through a communicable structure, and the like.

Through the combination of a plurality of smoke-curing units, can constitute the device of smoke-curing more nimble, can seek to deal with the user's desired effect of smoke-curing on this basis, if can provide different smoked flavor through different smoke-curing units or different smoke-curing modules in the same smoke-curing unit.

It is understood that the number and combination of the smoking modules contained in each smoking unit, the number and relative positions of the smoking units, whether the connection relationship exists, the specific connection mode, etc. can be determined by those skilled in the art according to actual conditions. Such as may be: the smoking and roasting units do not have a connection relationship, and the smoking and roasting modules in the smoking and roasting units have a connection relationship; various connection relations exist among the smoking and baking units; and the like. Such as the number, structure, combination mode and the like of the smoking modules in the plurality of smoking units. For example, the smoking and roasting units 1 and 2 respectively comprise smoking and roasting modules A, B and C, the combination mode of the single smoking and roasting module in the smoking and roasting module 1 is A-B-C, and the combination mode of the single smoking and roasting module in the smoking and roasting module 2 is A-C-B-A; and the like.

Through the setting of multiple mode, be expected to satisfy the culinary art demand better.

It should be noted that the first mode and the second mode may include, but are not limited to, a setting mode, a connection mode, a mode of realizing relative movement between the related smoking units, and the like. Assume that the smoking unit includes A, B, C, as can be: a and B are rotatably arranged, and A and C are telescopically arranged; a and B can rotate relatively and move relatively; the A and the B can move along one direction and can also move along the other direction; a and B can be rotated by one mechanism or the other mechanism; and the like.

With regard to the above-mentioned convertible modular smoke curing device of the cooking apparatus, in a possible embodiment, the smoke curing device is provided with a movable portion, at least a part of the smoke curing unit being movably arranged at the movable portion.

With this arrangement, a specific arrangement of the plural roasting units is given.

It will be appreciated that the specific form of the movable portion may be determined by those skilled in the art according to actual requirements, such as: may include one or more components; the movement of the roasting unit supported by each component may be the same or different; each component may support the activities of one or more of the curing units; and the like. For example, member 1 supports the rotation of the curing unit A, and member 2 supports the expansion and contraction of the curing unit A, B.

With regard to the above-mentioned convertible modular smoke curing device of the cooking apparatus, in a possible embodiment, the movable portion comprises at least one movable unit that supports the movement of the at least one smoke curing unit.

By this arrangement, a specific form of the movable portion is given.

It is understood that a person skilled in the art may determine the specific configuration of the activity unit according to actual situations, for example, one or more components may be included, and the activities supported by the same components may be the same or different. For example, the rotation of the roasting unit a is realized by the combination of the component 1 and the component 2 (one functional unit), and the rotation of the roasting unit B is realized by the combination of the component 3 and the component 4; the combination of parts 1 and 2 supports the rotation of the curing unit a and the combination of parts 1 and 3 supports the rotation of the curing unit B.

With regard to the above described modular smoking device of the cooking apparatus, in one possible embodiment, the type of movement and/or the direction of movement of the first means and the second means are different.

With such an arrangement, a possible way of distinguishing the first and second ways is given. Such as the type of motion may include rotation, movement, a combination of both, and the like. For example, the two units move in the same type and in the same direction, such that the smoking unit A moves in a first direction and the smoking unit B moves in a second direction, which are perpendicular to each other.

With regard to the above-described convertible modular smoke curing device of a cooking apparatus, in a possible embodiment, in case the smoke curing unit comprises a plurality of smoke curing modules, at least a part of the plurality of smoke curing modules are connected to each other in a vertically stacked manner.

Through the arrangement, a structural form of the smoking unit is provided.

With regard to the above-described convertible modular smoke curing means of the cooking apparatus, in one possible embodiment, the receiving space comprises a plurality of subspaces, the smoke material being placeable in at least a part of the subspaces.

By such an arrangement, a specific placement of the smoking material in the receiving space is given.

It is understood that a person skilled in the art may determine the specific form and number of the subspaces and the specific way of forming the accommodating space by each subspace, etc. according to actual requirements. For example, if the subspace includes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, wherein the subspace 3 is located at the middle portion and is not allowed to contain smoking material, the subspaces 1, 2, 4, 5 surround the periphery of the subspace 1 and can contain smoking material.

Taking the way that the 5 subspaces form the accommodating space as an example, in a specific example, the smoking material A is placed in the subspaces 1 and 2, and the smoking material B is placed in the subspaces 4 and 5. In this way, it is possible to distribute the aroma corresponding to the two kinds of smoke to the food to be cooked. If necessary, the smoking materials A and B can be exchanged, partially exchanged or adjusted, for example, such an exchange mode can be adopted: smoking materials A are placed in the subspaces 1, 2 and 4, and smoking materials B are placed in the subspace 5; smoking material A is still placed in the subspaces 1 and 2, and smoking material B is adjusted to smoking material C in the subspaces 4 and 5; and the like.

With regard to the above-mentioned convertible modular smoking device of a cooking apparatus, in a possible embodiment, the communication portion comprises a first communication unit, and the first communication unit is disposed in the smoking material portion.

With this arrangement, a specific arrangement of the communication parts is given.

It is understood that the specific form of the first communicating unit, the specific arrangement position on the smoking material portion, etc. can be flexibly determined by those skilled in the art according to the actual situation, for example, the first communicating unit may include one or more communicating structures, and the communicating structures may be distributed in the whole area or the partial area of the smoking material portion, etc.

With regard to the above-mentioned modifiable modular cooking device of the cooking apparatus, in a possible embodiment, the cooking device comprises a collecting portion able to solicit a correlation from the orientation of the food material to be cooked during its cooking.

With such an arrangement, the cleanliness of the cooking environment can be ensured by the arrangement of the collecting portion.

The correlation as coming from the orientation of the food material to be cooked may include, but is not limited to, powder/residue/liquid marinade of the food material surface, oil stains generated during cooking, etc.

It can be understood that, those skilled in the art can determine the structural form of the collecting part, the number of the included components and the corresponding relationship between the collecting part and the plurality of smoking and roasting modules according to actual requirements. Such as may be: comprises a plurality of parts corresponding to the number of the smoking units and a plurality of parts corresponding to the number of the smoking modules; share a component; the number is between the two; and the like.

If the collecting section may be a plate-like structure, a box-like structure, or the like, after collecting the relevant objects, the relevant objects may be received by a dynamic (such as a case where collection and discharge are allowed to be performed simultaneously with collection and discharge, or the like) or static (collective discharge after collection) processing; and the like. For example, the collecting part is provided with a pipeline, one end of the pipeline is communicated with the main structure of the collecting part so as to lead out the collected related objects in time, and the other end of the pipeline is externally connected with a box body or directly externally connected to a space allowing free discharge, such as a sewer, and thus, the related objects can be discharged in time in a manner of being collected and discharged.

With regard to the above-mentioned convertible modular smoke curing device of a cooking apparatus, in a possible embodiment, the communicating portion comprises a second communicating unit, which is provided to the collecting portion.

With this arrangement, a specific design of the connecting element is provided.

Similar to the aforementioned first communicating unit, a person skilled in the art may flexibly determine a specific form of the second communicating unit, a specific arrangement position of the second communicating unit on the collecting portion, and the like according to actual conditions, for example, the second communicating unit may include one or more communicating structures, the form of the communicating structure may be the same as or different from that of the first communicating unit, and similarly, the communicating structure may be distributed in all regions or partial regions of the collecting portion, and the like.

A second aspect of the invention provides a cooking apparatus comprising a convertible modular smoke curing device of any one of the cooking apparatus described above.

It can be understood that the cooking device has all the technical effects of the convertible modular flue-curing device of any one of the cooking devices described in the foregoing, and the description thereof is omitted.

Drawings

The cooking apparatus of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with a hot air oven (hereinafter referred to as an oven). In the drawings:

FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic structural view of an oven according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the structure of the smoking device in the oven according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a smoking module of a smoking device in an oven according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 shows a first schematic cross-sectional view (three-dimensional view, without cross-hatching) of a smoking module in a smoking device in an oven in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a second schematic cross-sectional view (two-dimensional view, cross-sectional line) of the smoking module of the smoking device in the oven, according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

fig. 6 shows a schematic structural view of a hood assembly in an oven according to an embodiment of the present invention.

List of reference numerals

100. An oven; 1. a cooking body; 11. a back plate; 2. a fan guard assembly; 21. a fan guard; 211. an air return opening; 212. an air supply outlet; 221. a motor; 222. a fan; 23. a heating coil; 300. a smoke curing device; 3. a smoking and roasting module; 31. a housing; 32. smoking; 33. smoking material matrix; 331. a subspace; 341. communicating the hole groups; 342. communicating with a large hole; 35. heating a tube; 36. a collecting section; 37. a cover body; 38. a protrusion; 41. a transverse rail; 42. a vertical rail.

Detailed Description

Preferred embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that these embodiments are only for explaining the technical principle of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. For example, although the present embodiment is described in connection with an oven, this is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, and those skilled in the art may apply the invention in other application scenarios without departing from the principles of the present invention. Such as a steaming and baking all-in-one machine.

It should be noted that in the description of the present invention, the terms of direction or positional relationship indicated by the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc. are based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the drawings, which are merely for convenience of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance. The singular forms "a", "an" and "the" may include the plural forms as well.

Furthermore, it should be noted that, in the description of the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

Furthermore, while numerous specific details are set forth in the following description in order to provide a better understanding of the invention, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the invention may be practiced without some of these specific details. In some instances, oven principles and the like, which are well known to those skilled in the art, have not been described in detail in order to not unnecessarily obscure the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1 to 6, fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of an oven according to an embodiment of the present invention, fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of a grill unit in an oven according to an embodiment of the present invention, fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of a grill module in a grill unit in an oven according to an embodiment of the present invention, fig. 4 is a schematic sectional view of a grill module in a grill unit in an oven according to an embodiment of the present invention, fig. 5 is a schematic sectional view of a grill module in a grill unit in an oven according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of a fan cover assembly in an oven according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 1 to 6, the oven 100 mainly includes a cooking body 1, a fan guard assembly 2, and a roasting apparatus 300 placed in the cooking body, wherein the roasting apparatus 300 includes four roasting units having a height difference, and each roasting unit includes only one roasting module 3. Wherein, the cooking main body is formed with a cooking chamber (such as an inner container) for holding food materials to be cooked. If a shelf is arranged in the inner container, food materials are directly placed on the shelf or placed in a vessel (such as a plate) placed on the shelf, and a plurality of smoking and roasting modules in the smoking and roasting device are mainly placed below the shelf. For example, a plurality of smoking modules in the smoking device form a whole and can be movably arranged at the inner side of the bottom of the inner container, so that when the placement direction of food materials to be cooked is changed, the placement position of the smoking device is correspondingly adjusted. Such as may be: a plurality of placing positions are configured for the smoking and roasting device at the inner side of the bottom of the inner container, and one of the placing positions can be selected according to the actual situation; or the smoking and roasting device is placed at the inner side of the bottom of the inner container in an unconstrained mode, so that the placement position of the smoking and roasting device can be flexibly adjusted; and the like.

In one possible embodiment, four of the curing units may be moved in two directions. In particular: two of the four smoking units are movable on the transverse rails 41 and the other two of the four smoking units are movable on the vertical rails 42 for the transverse rails 41 and the vertical rails 42 of the smoking device to be perpendicular to each other. Thus, two movable modes with the same movement type but different movement directions are constructed. The upper sides of the horizontal rail 41 and the vertical rail 42 are provided with grooves corresponding to the grooves, and a pair of protrusions 38 extends downward from the bottom of the smoking module, so that one pair of the two pairs of smoking units can move relatively in the horizontal plane along the horizontal direction and the other pair can move relatively in the vertical direction through the movement of the protrusions in the grooves. In addition, a reasonable stop structure (e.g., a stop block in the slot, etc.) can be added to define a specific range of movement of the protrusion in the slot, such as within 150 mm.

With this arrangement, the relative positions of the four curing units can be adjusted before the operation of the curing device is started, or the relative positions of the four curing units can be adjusted during the operation. Therefore, the incense smell emitted by the smoking material can be better distributed to the food material to be cooked. If the smoking and roasting device is not needed to be used in the oven, all the smoking and roasting units are moved to the center in a centralized manner, so that the storage is convenient.

It is clear that this is only an exemplary illustration of two modes, which can be adapted by the person skilled in the art according to the actual situation, e.g. the two modes differ in their type of movement, each smoking unit comprises a different movement mode, etc.

In addition, the above-mentioned smoking and roasting device includes four smoking and roasting units, and each of the smoking and roasting units includes only one smoking and roasting module, which is only an exemplary description, and those skilled in the art can determine the number of the smoking and roasting units, the number of the smoking and roasting modules included in the smoking and roasting unit, etc. according to actual requirements, for example, in the smoking and roasting unit, a part includes only one smoking and roasting module, another part includes a plurality of smoking and roasting modules, and the combination manner of the plurality of smoking and roasting modules may be left and right combination, up and down stacking, etc.

Wherein, the fan guard subassembly mainly used realizes the circulation flow during the production of hot gas flow and the culinary art to the realization treats the main culinary art function of the edible material of culinary art. The smoking and roasting device is mainly used for giving out one or more smoking flavors to food materials to be cooked during the cooking period of main cooking of the food materials to be cooked, and adding auxiliary cooking effect to the main cooking. Thus, after the food material is taken out of the cooking cavity after cooking, the flavor effect corresponding to the aroma provided by the smoking device can be achieved.

In a possible embodiment, the fan guard assembly 2 mainly includes a fan guard 21, a fan and a heating coil, and the specific structure is as follows: the liner is provided with a back plate 11 on one side (such as a back side) far away from an operation side (such as the operation side is a side facing a user and can be generally called as a front side) of the user, a fan cover 21 is installed on the back plate, a hot air chamber is formed between the fan cover and the back plate, the fan cover is provided with a return air opening 211 near the middle part of the fan cover, and a blast opening 212 is arranged around the circumferential direction of the return air opening 211. A blower including a driving motor 221 and a fan 222 is disposed at a position corresponding to the return air inlet in the hot air chamber. The motor rotates to drive the fan to rotate at a position facing the air return opening, and the rotation of the fan can lead the air in the inner container to flow through the air return opening and then to be led into the hot air chamber. A heating coil 23 is also provided in the hot blast chamber at a position corresponding to the return air opening, e.g. a fan is provided in the area encircled by the heating coil. Therefore, under the action of the fan, air in the inner container flows through the air return opening and is sucked into the hot air chamber, the air is heated by the heating coil pipe and is converted into hot air carrying heat, and then the hot air is thrown to the air supply opening on the periphery and is sent into the inner container again. By such circulation, the hot air flow can continuously distribute the air carrying heat to the surface of the food material to be cooked, thereby realizing the main cooking function.

In the present embodiment, the air return opening 211 is substantially a disk-shaped area formed by grid holes, and the air supply opening 212 includes a plurality of air supply points, for example, the air supply points are substantially bar-shaped holes. Illustratively, the fan guard includes a plate portion and a flange extending from the plate portion in a direction adjacent to the back plate 11, the back plate, the flange and the plate portion thereby forming the hot air chamber. The air supply points comprise a plurality of air supply points arranged on the turned-over edge and three groups arranged on the plate-shaped structure from top to bottom, and each group comprises a small group which is symmetrically arranged on the two sides of the first air return opening in a left-right mode. The number of the air supply points included in each group is gradually reduced from top to bottom. Specifically, the upper group comprises small groups which are symmetrically arranged and are composed of 8 air supply points, wherein the left side and the right side of the small groups are respectively arranged at two sides of the first air return opening. The middle group includes 3 and the lower group includes 2. Obviously, the specific configuration of the air supply outlet is just a specific example, and those skilled in the art can flexibly adjust the configuration according to actual needs.

In a possible embodiment, the smoking module 3 mainly comprises a smoking material part, a heating part, a collecting part and a communicating part. Wherein, can place one or more stacte in the stacte portion, heating portion mainly used heats the stacte and makes it reach the temperature state that can give off stacte, and collecting portion mainly used collects the relevant things such as the oil stain in the position of the edible material that comes from waiting to cook, and the intercommunication portion mainly used makes stacte reach the edible material department of waiting to cook, in this embodiment, the intercommunication portion includes first intercommunication unit and second intercommunication unit.

In a specific embodiment, the smoking material part comprises a housing 31 with a cylindrical structure, a containing space is formed in the housing, smoking materials 32 are placed in the containing space near the lower part, and the upper part forms a smoke collecting cavity. The side wall of the housing is uniformly distributed along its circumferential direction at a position corresponding to the upper portion with a plurality of communication hole groups 341 as first communication units, each of which includes a plurality of communication small holes provided in a concentrated manner.

Exemplarily, the placement mode of the smoking materials in the shell is specifically as follows: the position of the part corresponding to the lower part in the shell is provided with a smoking material base body (solid structure) 33, a plurality of subspaces 331 are formed in the smoking material base body, for example, in the embodiment, the structural form of the subspaces is a strip-shaped groove, the strip-shaped grooves are arranged along the circumferential array of the smoking material base body, the smoking materials can be placed in each groove, and the types of the smoking materials placed in the grooves can be the same or different. As in this example, the number of elongated slots in each of the four smoking modules is 4.

It is understood that the placement of the smoking material in the casing is only an exemplary description, and those skilled in the art can flexibly set the specific form, number, arrangement, etc. of the sub-spaces according to the actual situation, and the different sub-spaces may be the same or different. For example, a circular groove can be added in the middle of the smoking material matrix.

In a specific embodiment, the heating part comprises a heating pipe 35, which is embedded at the bottom of the smoking material base body, so that the smoking material can emit corresponding incense by means of the heat generated by the heating pipe.

It is understood that a heating pipe is only an exemplary configuration of the heating unit, and that a person skilled in the art may adapt it according to the actual requirements. Such as may be: the smoking material base of the smoking module comprises two parts which are insulated from each other, and each part is provided with a heating pipe.

Based on this, it is possible to correspond to two sections, divide the plurality of tanks into two sections, and place different smoking materials (e.g., denoted smoking material a and smoking material B) in the two sections, respectively. In this way, it is possible to deliver to the food material to be cooked a flavour of a first quality produced by smoke A, a flavour of a second quality produced by smoke B and a flavour of a plurality of mixed qualities produced by smoke A and B in proportions.

In a possible embodiment, one collecting portion 36 is provided per roasting unit, which comprises an annular sheet-like collecting body surrounding the periphery of the housing, which is recessed radially from the outside inwards, so that oil stains can be guided to a radially inner position in a timely manner. The annular separation blade is arranged at the position close to the radial inner side of the collecting main body, and the position of the collecting main body close to the middle part and the annular separation blade form an annular groove capable of containing related objects. In this way, oil stains and the like precipitated from the food material to be cooked during cooking can be collected in the annular groove in time, thereby ensuring cleanliness during cooking.

In a possible embodiment, the collecting portion is provided at the top of the housing so as to be located above the first communicating unit. Through such setting, collect the main part when collecting relevant thing such as oil stain, thereby can also prevent effectively that relevant thing such as oil stain from falling into first communicating element and influencing the giving off of smoked fragrant smell. In concert, the first communicating unit is formed by the communicating hole group consisting of the plurality of communicating small holes, so that related objects such as block-shaped solid objects can be further effectively prevented from falling into the accommodating space through the first communicating unit. On the basis, a second communicating unit can be arranged on the collecting main body in the shape of a ring sheet, for example, the second communicating unit comprises a plurality of large communicating big holes 342, and the number and the arrangement position of the large communicating holes correspond to the communicating hole group formed by the plurality of small communicating holes which are arranged in a concentrated manner.

In this way, the (first and second) communicating units form a communicating part in a combined manner, and the incense emitted by the smoking material can be distributed to the food to be cooked through the communicating hole group and the communicating big hole based on the communicating part in the combined manner. Such as may be: carry with the flue gas of smoked fragrant smell and send to the inner bag after through first communicating unit from collection cigarette chamber, divide into two parts, wherein: a part of smoke (such as the emission direction of the smoke is close to the horizontal direction or the direction of the smoke downwards in an inclined way) does not pass through the position corresponding to the collecting main body, so that the smoke can be freely diffused and diffused to the inner container and finally reach the food to be cooked; another part (for example, the discharge direction of the smoke is inclined upwards and close to the vertical direction) will pass through the position corresponding to the collecting main body, at the moment, at least one part of the smoke can diffuse and permeate through the inner container to reach the food to be cooked finally through the second communication unit.

It is to be understood that the above-mentioned communicating portion is only an exemplary description, and those skilled in the art can flexibly adjust the communicating portion according to the actual situation, such as changing the communicating hole group to one communicating hole, omitting the second communicating unit, or changing the second communicating unit to one or more annular holes, etc.

In one possible embodiment, the smoking device is configured with a cover 37, which, as in the present example, is a lid-like structure configured at the top of the smoking device (i.e., the top of the uppermost smoking module). Thus, during cooking of the food material to be cooked, the dripping of the relevant matter such as oil stains on the main structure of the smoking device can be avoided. Illustratively, a hand-held end may be provided on the cover body to facilitate user operation when it is desired to remove it.

It can be seen that, in the oven of the present invention, through the configuration of the smoking and roasting device, while the food to be cooked contained in the inner container of the oven is cooked through hot air roasting, the smoking flavor given off by the various smoking materials for the food to be cooked can be obtained on the premise of keeping the roasting function of the common meat. The obtaining of a plurality of smoking flavors can be realized by different smoking modules, and different smoking materials can be placed in the same smoking module. Such application scenarios exist as: open, shared cooking processes with social attributes require ovens with cooking capabilities that provide multiple flavors. The oven disclosed by the invention can well meet the requirements in the application scene. On the basis, the requirements under the application scene can be better met through the movable arrangement among the smoking and roasting units.

Taking the food material to be cooked as meat as an example, compared with the mode that the flavor seasoning is added on the surface of the meat after the meat is baked to be mature, the food material can be better tasty, the fragrance is more mellow, and the smoking part allows a user to select the smoking fragrance liked by the user according to the actual requirement, so that richer flavor and mouthfeel can be often formulated aiming at the food material to be cooked, and the user experience is obviously improved.

So far, the technical solutions of the present invention have been described in connection with the preferred embodiments shown in the drawings, but it is easily understood by those skilled in the art that the scope of the present invention is obviously not limited to these specific embodiments. Equivalent changes or substitutions of related technical features can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the principle of the invention, and the technical scheme after the changes or substitutions can fall into the protection scope of the invention.

Claims (10)

1. A convertible modular smoke curing device for a cooking apparatus, said cooking apparatus comprising a cooking body having a cooking chamber, said smoke curing device being positioned in said cooking chamber, said smoke curing device comprising a plurality of smoke curing units, said smoke curing units comprising at least one smoke curing module, said smoke curing module comprising:

a smoking part, wherein a containing space for placing smoking materials is formed in the smoking part; and

a heating part which can give out heat to the smoking material so that the smoking material can emit smoking fragrance by means of the heat;

the smoking and roasting device is also provided with a communicating part, and the fragrance emitted by the smoking material can be emitted to the food material to be cooked in the cooking cavity through the communicating part;

wherein, can set up movably through the first mode between at least partly in the unit of smoking, can set up movably through the second mode between at least partly in the unit of smoking.

2. The convertible modular curing device of claim 1, wherein the curing device is configured with a movable portion, at least a portion of the curing unit being movably disposed at the movable portion.

3. The convertible modular smoke curing apparatus of claim 2, wherein said movable portion comprises at least one movable unit, said movable unit supporting the activity of at least one smoke curing unit.

4. The convertible modular smoke curing apparatus of claim 1 wherein said first mode and said second mode differ in type and/or direction of movement.

5. The convertible modular smoke curing apparatus of claim 1, wherein in case said smoke curing unit comprises a plurality of smoke curing modules, at least a portion of said plurality of smoke curing modules are connected to each other in a vertically stacked manner.

6. The convertible modular smoke curing apparatus of claim 1 wherein said receiving space comprises a plurality of subspaces, said smoke being capable of being placed in at least a portion of said subspaces.

7. The convertible modular smoking device of claim 1, wherein the communication portion comprises a first communication unit disposed in the smoking material portion.

8. The modifiable modular cooking device according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a collecting portion able to solicit a correlation from the orientation of the food material to be cooked during its cooking.

9. The convertible modular smoke curing apparatus of claim 8 wherein said communication portion comprises a second communication means, said second communication means being disposed in said collection portion.

10. A cooking apparatus, characterized in that it comprises a modifiable modular smoking device of a cooking apparatus according to any of claims 1 to 9.

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