摘要 |
<p>AUTOMATIC COOKING APPARATUS A microcomputer-controlled, integrated cooking apparatus for automatically preparing culinary dishes. The constituent ingredients of a particular dish are loaded into a compartmentalized carousel (12), which is mounted on the cooking apparatus. The apparatus includes a memory (94) for storing one or more recipe programs. The recipe program specifies schedules for dispensing the ingredients from the carousel (12) into a cooking vessel (10), for heating the vessel (either covered or uncovered), and for stirring the contents of the vessel. These operations are performed automatically under control of the microcomputer (91).</p> |