Cooking machine and associated cooking method

摘要

A machine for making a food product includes a cooking apparatus for cooking an aliquot of dough disposed in an elongate straight shape about a straight cooking member made of a material which has a chemical composition essentially impervious to cooking temperatures. The machine also incorporates a mechanism for extracting the cooking member from the cooked dough, thereby creating a chamber in the cooked dough. This mechanism has a contact member which is disposable in engagement with an end of the cooking member, a holder disposable in contact with the cooked dough for restraining the cooked dough, and a motive component operatively connected to at least one of the holder and the contact member for moving the one of the holder and the gripper relative to the other to remove the cooking member from cooked dough.