Method and apparatus for automatically frying food products

摘要

An apparatus for automatically frying food products is disclosed. The apparatus includes a vat (102) containing cooking oil (108). Heating elements (104) heat the cooking oil to the desired temperature. Baskets (106) hold food products within the cooking oil (108). A dumping mechanism (150) automatically removes each basket (106) in turn from the cooking oil (108) and dumps the food products from the basket (106) into a dump pan (152).