JPH0492616A - Oven toaster - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain delicious toast of the same baked color even if bread is baked continuously many times by providing a control means for controlling the heating quantity of a heater, based on the output of a heating quantity determining means. CONSTITUTION:When a setting switch 3 is desired, the baked color of toast is set. Subsequently, when a toast cooking switch 4 is turned on, a set baked color set value and a signal of the toast cooking switch 4 are sent to a control circuit 7 by an input circuit A6a and an input circuit B6. Thus, a deciding means 71 decides the baked color set value, and an electric conduction stop time of the upper heater 18 and the lower heater before starting the cooking. Also, based on the output of a heating quantity determining means 72, a heating quantity control means 73 controls the electric conduction of the upper heater 18 and the lower heater 19. At the time of the next toast cooking, by only turning on the toast cooking switch 4, cooking is executed by a second toast cooking time B2 corresponding to the baked color set value and a heating stop time t2 of a heating pattern and toast of the same baked color as a first time is obtained.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] This invention relates to a toaster oven for cooking rice, toast, cake, etc.

[Conventional technology] In general, to bake delicious toast, it is necessary to apply an appropriate amount of heat, and to cook delicious rice, after washing the rice, it is necessary to allow the rice to absorb an appropriate amount of moisture and to provide an appropriate amount of heat. It is necessary.

Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional side view showing a conventional toaster oven, and in Fig. 9, (1) is the operating section, (13) is the casing,
(14) is a reflection plate provided inside this housing (13), (1
5) is a door that can be opened and closed with a glass window provided on the front of the housing (13); (16) is a saucer that slides back and forth for collecting cooking scraps accumulated at the bottom of the housing (I3); 17) is the inside of the refrigerator which is composed of the reflector plate (14), the door (15) and the saucer (16).

(18) is an upper heater (19) installed in the upper part of the refrigerator interior (17); a lower heater (20) is installed in the lower part of the refrigerator interior (17); −(
19) is a grid-like grill that slides in conjunction with the door (15), and (26) is a pan for cooking that is placed on the grill (20).

FIG. 8 is a side view of a main part of the toaster oven, and in FIG. 2, (20) is the grill grate.

(21) is a pizza made on a cooking plate that is placed on top of this grill (20).

Place cooking ingredients on top when cooking cakes, etc. (22)
is a rice cooking container to be placed on top of this cooking plate (21), (23
) is the lid of this rice cooking container (22), (24) is the rice to be cooked, and (25) is the water.

FIG. 9 is a configuration diagram of the operation section showing the toaster oven, and in FIG. 7, (1) is the operation section, and (9) is the menu operation section provided on this operation section (1). It consists of a food switch (9d), a pizza switch (9b), and a cake switch (9c).

(12) sets the cooking time provided in the operation section (1) and starts cooking.

With the time switch, the upper heater (
18) Stop energizing the lower heater (19).

The operation of the toaster oven configured as described above will first be explained about toast cooking.

When the rice cooking/toasting switch (9d) shown in Fig. 9 is pressed and the time switch (12) is set to a predetermined cooking time, cooking starts and the upper heater (18) and lower heater (19) are energized. I get a fever.

The heat from the upper heater (18) and lower heater (19) heats the inside of the refrigerator (17).

Further, the radiant heat from the upper heater (18) and lower heater (19) is reflected by the reflector plate (14,), saucer plate (16), etc.

Toast the bread (26) for cooking.

When the time switch (12) passes a predetermined time.

The electricity supply to the upper heater (18) and lower heater (19) is stopped to complete the cooking.

If you want to make toast two or three times in a row, turn on the inside of the oven (17), the upper heater (1, 8), and the lower heater (1).
9) is warmed by residual heat, so the time switch (12)
It is necessary to shorten the setup time compared to the initial setup.

Also, in the case of rice cooking, when the rice cooking/toasting switch (9d) is pressed and the time switch (12) is set to a predetermined time, the upper heater (18) and lower heater (19) are energized to generate heat.

This heat heats the inside of the refrigerator (17).

The lower heater (19) heats the cooking plate (21) with radiant heat and heats the lower empty rice (24) with conductive heat via the rice cooking container (22).
and water (25).

On the other hand, the upper heater (18) heats the lid (23) with radiant heat.

The heat from this lid (23) allows rice (24) and water (2
5) Heat.

The temperature of the rice (24) and water (25) rises due to this heating, and the rice is cooked while spewing out the rice from between the rice cooking container (22) and the MC 23).

When the time switch (12) is activated for a predetermined period of time, the upper heater (18) and lower heater (19) are turned off, and the remaining heat in the refrigerator (17) is used to distribute the heat to complete the cooking.

For other types of cooking such as pizza and cake, the user operates the time switch (12) to adjust the heating amount in the same manner as described above.

As described above, the user must always check the finished cooking and adjust the amount of heating using the time switch (12) based on experience and intuition.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] Since the conventional toaster oven is configured as described above, when toasting bread several times in succession,
It was necessary to operate the time switch each time, it was necessary to monitor the finished product, and it was not possible to obtain toast with the same brown color.

On the other hand, when cooking rice, it is necessary to set the heating amount according to the amount of rice to be cooked by operating a time switch.

There were issues such as the need to monitor the finished product and the inability to consistently obtain delicious rice.

This invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and its purpose is to obtain delicious toast with the same brown color no matter how many times the bread is baked.

Also, you can consistently cook delicious rice even if the amount of rice you cook changes. The purpose is to provide a toaster oven that is easy to operate.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The toaster oven according to the present invention includes a heater for heating bread, a setting switch for setting the browning color of toast, a cooking switch for starting toast cooking, and the above-mentioned setting switch and cooking switch. When there is a signal, a heating amount determining means determines the heating amount according to the browning setting value and the heating stop time before the start of cooking, and the heating amount of the heater is controlled based on the output of the heating amount determining means. It is equipped with a control means to

(2) When the bread is heated, there is a heater, a setting switch that sets the browning of the toast, a cooking switch that starts toast cooking, and a signal from the above setting switch and cooking switch, and the heating stop time before starting cooking. determining means for determining whether or not the time is longer than a predetermined time; and if the result of this determination is the predetermined time or more, determining the heating amount according to the browning set value, and if it is less than the predetermined time, determining the heating amount according to the browning set value and the above. The apparatus is provided with a heating amount determining means for determining a heating amount according to the heating stop time, and a control means for controlling the heating amount of the heater based on the output of the heating amount determining means.

(3) Start the heater that heats the food and start cooking rice or toast. When there is a cooking switch, a setting switch for setting the amount of rice to be cooked or the browning color of toast, and a signal from the cooking switch and the setting switch, a first determining means determines whether to cook rice or toast; In the case of rice cooking, a first heating amount determining means determines the heating amount according to the set value of the rice cooking amount, and a first heating amount determining means controls the heating amount of the heater based on the output of the first heating amount determining means. control means; if the determination result of the first determination means is toast cooking, a second determination means that determines whether the heating stop time before starting cooking is longer than a predetermined time;
If the determination result is longer than the predetermined time, the heating amount is determined according to the browning setting value, and if it is less than the predetermined time, the heating amount is determined according to the browning setting value and the heating stop time. The present invention is provided with a second heating amount determining means and a second controlling means for controlling the heating amount of the heater based on the output of the second heating amount determining means.

(4) The setting switch is a single switch that serves both to set the amount of rice to be cooked and to set the browning color of the toast.

[Function] During toast cooking, the toaster oven according to the present invention determines the browning set value and heating stop time based on the signals from the setting switch and the cooking switch, and controls the heating amount of the heater according to the results of this determination.

In addition, when cooking rice, the amount of rice to be cooked is determined based on the signals from the cooking switch and the setting switch, and the heating amount of the heater is controlled according to the result of this determination.

In addition, the setting switch can set the amount of rice cooked and the browning color of the toast.

[Example] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

A cross-sectional structural diagram of the toaster oven is shown in FIG. 7, and a cross-sectional diagram showing rice cooking is shown in FIG. 8.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a toaster oven showing an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 9, a setting switch (3) for setting the amount of rice to be cooked or the browning color of toast (4) starts toast cooking. Toast cooking switch, (5) is a rice cooking switch that starts rice cooking, (6a
) is the signal input circuit A of the setting switch (3) above, (
6b) is an input circuit B that receives signals from the input circuit A (6a) and the toast cooking switch (4) or the rice cooking switch (5), and (7) is a control that operates based on the signal from this input circuit B (6b). The circuit (71) is a determination means for determining whether toast cooking or rice cooking is to be done and the pause time before the start of toast cooking.(72) is a circuit that determines the heating amount when there is a determination signal from the determination means (71) The heating amount determining means (73) is the heating amount determining means (72).
) Based on the determination of upper heater (18) and lower heater (1
9) heating amount determining means for controlling the heating amount.

Fig. 2 is a configuration diagram of the operation section of the toaster oven showing the above-mentioned embodiment. Automatic cooking operation section, (3) is the above setting switch, (4
) is a toast lamp that blinks in conjunction with the toast cooking switch (4a).

(5) is the rice cooking switch, (5a) is the rice cooking lamp (8) that flashes in conjunction with this rice cooking switch (5).
) is a manual cooking operation section provided in the operation section (1) and is used for cooking other than toast cooking and rice cooking.

(9) is a menu switch for selecting cooking, and the calorific value of the upper heater (18) and lower heater (L9) is set in advance according to each cooking type.

(9a) is a gratin lamp, (9b) is a pizza/mochi lamp, (9c) is a cake lamp with a menu switch (
9).

(10) is the cooking start switch selected with the menu switch (9), and (11) is the cooking cancel switch that can also cancel toast cooking and rice cooking.

(12) is a time switch for setting cooking time.

(12a) is a timer lamp that displays the time by operating the time switch (12).

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be explained.

The upper heater (18) and the lower heater (19) are energized and controlled by a control circuit (7) as shown in the heating pattern diagram shown in FIG.

In the flowchart of Fig. 3, the above setting switch (3
) to set the desired toast color.

Next, turn on the toast cooking switch (4).

It will not work unless this toast cooking switch is turned on.

When the toast cooking switch (4) is turned on.

The browning set value set by the setting switch (3) and the signal from the toast cooking switch (4) are sent to the control circuit (7) by input circuit A (6a) and input circuit B (6b).

When the determination means (71) receives the above-mentioned signal, the above-mentioned browning setting value and the upper heater (18) and lower heater (
19), that is, the heating stop time (tl) of the heating pattern (c) shown in FIG. 6 is determined.

Based on this determination, in step (7J), the heating amount determining means (72) determines the heating amount according to the browning setting value and the heating stop time (tl).

Based on the output of the heating amount determining means (72), the heating amount controlling means (73) controls the upper heater (18) and the lower heater (1
9) controls the energization.

That is, the first toast cooking (B) of the heating pattern (c) in Figure 6
1) is executed in step (7H) to cook toast.

When the first toast cooking (B1) is finished, the upper heater (1
8) The lower heater (19) stops and the toast lamp (4)
a) goes out, a buzzer (not shown) sounds and cooking is completed.

For the next toast cooking, simply turn on the toast cooking switch (4) and use the above browning settings and the heating pattern shown in Figure 6 (
It corresponded to c) heating stop time (T2). Cook the second toast at the cooking time (B2) to obtain toast with the same brown color as the first time.

Toast cooking (B) n times depending on the heating stop time (T7).

), you can get toast with the same brown color no matter how many times you bake it.

Note that the heating stop time and the cooking time are in a proportional relationship.

In other words, the longer the heating stop time, the longer the cooking time.

Conversely, if the heating stop time is short, the cooking time is shortened and the amount of heating is controlled so that toast with the same brown color can be obtained.

In the above embodiment, when there are signals from the setting switch (3) and the toast cooking switch (4), the determining means (71) determines the heating stop time before starting cooking and determines the heating amount for each cooking. However, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing another embodiment, and the first toast cooking time (B1)
Only in step (7F), the determination means (71) determines whether the heating stop time (to) is longer than the predetermined time, and if this determination is equal to or longer than the predetermined time, heating is performed according to the browning setting value. The heating amount determining means (72) may determine the heating amount, and if it is less than the predetermined time, the heating amount determining means (72) may determine the heating amount according to the browning setting value and the heating stop time before starting cooking. .

In the above example, an example of toast cooking was shown, but in the fifth example,
The figure is a flowchart showing still another embodiment, in which the amount of rice cooked or the browning color of toast is set with the setting switch (3), and when cooking rice, the rice cooking switch (5) is turned on.
For toast cooking, turn on the toast cooking switch (4).

When there is a signal from the setting switch (3) and the rice cooking switch (5) or the toast cooking switch (4), it is determined whether the rice cooking switch (5) is on.

If this determination result is ON, in step (7B), the heating amount determining means (72
) to determine.

Based on the output of the heating amount determining means (72), the heating amount controlling means (73) controls the upper heater (18) and the lower heater (1
9) controls the energization.

That is, the heating pattern ((), (0) of FIG. 6 is executed in step (7c).

In addition, at the first stage (T1) immediately after the start of cooking, both the upper heater (18) and the lower heater (19) are energized at 100%, and at the second stage (T2), the upper heater (18) is turned on and off. 50% energization and energization upper (19) is 100
% is energized. In the third stage (T3), the upper heater (18
), the lower heater (19) is turned off, and the fourth stage (T
4), both the upper heater (18) and the lower heater (T9) are 100% energized, and in the 5th stage (T5), the upper heater (18) is energized at 100%.
) and the lower heater (19) are stopped and the rice cooking is completed when a predetermined period of time has elapsed.

Further, if the determination result of the determination means is negative, toast cooking is determined, and after step (7F), steps (7J) and (7K) are executed in the same manner as in FIG. 4 above.

In this way, it may be combined with not only toast cooking but also other cooking.

It should be noted that the energization times for the first to fifth stages of the heating patterns (4) and (o) in FIG. 6 are set to the times experimentally obtained for each amount of rice to be cooked.

Furthermore, although the setting switch is used to set the amount of rice cooked and the browning color of the toast, they may be provided separately.

When cooking gratin, pizza, cake, etc., press the menu switch (9), select cooking, and turn the time switch (
12) Press to set the cooking time.

The cooking method is similar to that of a conventional toaster oven.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, delicious toast or rice can be obtained because cooking is performed with the heating amount according to the setting value of the setting switch.

In addition, since the setting switch is used to set the browning of toast and the amount of cooked rice, the operating section is also simplified, resulting in an easy-to-operate toaster oven.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a toaster oven showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a configuration diagram of the operating section of the toaster oven, Fig. 3 is a flowchart of the toaster oven, and Fig. 4 is another embodiment. FIG. 5 is a flowchart diagram of a toaster oven according to an example, FIG. 5 is a flowchart diagram of a toaster oven according to another embodiment, FIG. 6 is a heating pattern diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional diagram showing a conventional toaster oven. A side view, FIG. 8 is a sectional side view of a main part showing this toaster oven, and FIG. 9 is a configuration diagram of an operating section showing this toaster oven. In the figure, (3) is a setting switch, (4) is a toast cooking switch, and (5) is a rice cooking switch. (7) is a control circuit, (71) is a determination means, (72)
is heating amount determining means, (73) is heating amount controlling means, (
18) is an upper heater, and (19) is a lower heater. In addition, in FIG. 1, the same reference numerals indicate the same or equivalent parts.

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) When there is a signal from the heater that heats the food, the setting switch that sets the toast browning, the cooking switch that starts toast cooking, the above setting switch and the cooking switch, the above browning setting value and the 1. A toaster oven comprising: a heating amount determining means for determining a heating amount according to a heating stop time; and a controlling means for heating the heater based on the output of the heating amount determining means. (2) When there is a signal from the heater that heats the food, the setting switch that sets the browning of toast, the cooking switch that starts toast cooking, and the above setting switch and cooking switch, the heating stop time before starting cooking is determined. determination means for determining whether or not the time has elapsed; if the determination result is negative, determines the heating amount according to the browning set value; if the result is negative, the browning set value is changed and the heating is stopped; 1. A toaster oven characterized by comprising a heating amount determining means for determining a heating amount according to a time, and a control means for controlling heating of the heater based on the output of the heating amount determining means. (3) A heater that heats the food, a cooking switch that selects either the rice cooking mode or the toast cooking mode and starts cooking, a setting switch that sets the amount of rice to be cooked, or the browning of the toast, and the above-mentioned cooking When there is a signal from the switch and the setting switch, the first determining means determines whether the cooking is rice cooking or toast cooking, and if the determination result is rice cooking, the heating amount is determined according to the set value of the amount of rice cooked. A first heating amount determination means to determine, a first control means to control the heating amount of the heater based on the output of the first heating amount determination means, and a determination result of the first determination means is toast cooking. For example, a second determining means determines whether or not the heating stop time before the start of cooking is longer than a predetermined time; If the judgment result of the judgment means is negative,
a second heating amount determining means for determining a heating amount according to the browning setting value and the heating stop time; a second heating amount determining means for controlling the heating amount of the heater based on the output of the second heating amount determining means; A toaster oven characterized by being equipped with a control means. (4) The toaster oven according to claim 3, wherein the setting switch is a single switch that serves both to set the amount of rice to be cooked and to set the browning color of the toast.