Cooking apparatus such as fryer or the like for frying food

摘要

In a cooking apparatus such as a fryer or the like for frying food having an oil tank filled therein with cooking oil to be maintained in heated condition, a humidity detector is provided to detect an amount of vapor rising from the food after the food has been thrown into the heated cooking oil. An electric circuit is provided to decide frying completion of the food when the detected amount of vapor becomes smaller than a predetermined amount of vapor after maintained larger than the predetermined amount of vapor, and an elapsed amount of time.