| 摘要 |
In accordance with the present invention a novel apparatus is disclosed that provides both hot and cold holding for food products in one food holding appliance. In preferred embodiments the improvements include one or more of the following: (1) Positioning a heat transfer module containing a heat transfer plate above the top of one or more food holding pans forming the top surface of each food holding compartment. (2) Providing a heat transfer module to transfer both cold or hot heat energy to the food holding pans in each compartment. (3) Thermally isolating each heat transfer module form an adjacent heat transfer module to provide independent temperature control of hot or cold food holding compartments in one food holding appliance. (4) Removable heat transfer partitions that can used to subdivide each food holding compartment in to sections providing additional heat transfer capability along the sides of each food holding pan and blocking the flow of ambient air between the food holding pans. (5) A control system that regulates the temperature of each hot or cold food holding compartments by sensing the temperature of each heat transfer module and adjusting the the amount of heat energy to be added or removed.
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