IMPINGEMENT AND STEAM APPARATUS FROM PREPARING FOOD PRODUCTS

摘要

An oven for preparing food products such as pizza including three chambers which are serially connected and through which a conveyor carries a food product which may be received in an open-topped pan or which may be placed directly on the conveyor. The center chamber includes steam impingement structure for impinging jets of hot steam onto the top surface of the food product. The center chamber also includes a hot air impingement structure for impinging jets of hot gas onto the bottom surface of the container of the food product. The first and last chambers in the oven include hot air impingement structure for impinging hot jets of air onto both the top surface of the food product and the bottom surface of the pan.