Boilerless steaming oven and method

摘要

A steaming oven having a clad plate bottom. The stainless steel clad material constitutes the bottom of the boiling water reservoir in the oven chamber. The stainless steel clad material is composed of a thin layer of stainless material clad to a thicker plate of base, heat conducting metal like steel, copper or aluminum.

主权项

1. A steaming oven comprising:
a housing comprising a top wall, a bottom wall, a back wall, a front wall and two side walls that form a cooking chamber; a door disposed in said front wall; a water reservoir that is disposed in a bottom region of said cooking chamber and that comprises one or more reservoir side walls and a bottom plate of a heavy construction that is thicker than said reservoir side walls and that comprises a thin metallic top layer bonded to a thick layer of base metal so as to prevent deformation, wherein each of said one or more reservoir side walls has a thickness that is in a range of about 7% to about 12% of a thickness of said bottom plate; and a heater disposed below said water reservoir to heat said bottom plate and said water to a temperature to provide steam in said cooking chamber.