Power control arrangement for automatic surface unit

摘要

A power control arrangement for an automatic surface unit in a cooking appliance which enables the user to select Warm, Simmer, Boil and Fry cooking modes and to select from a plurality of heat settings for each mode. The heat settings for each mode have associated with them a minimum steady state temperature and a steady state power level. The control system compares the output from a utensil temperature sensor with various reference values determined by the mode and heat setting selected and depending upon the comparison, operates the surface unit at the corresponding steady state power level or at a transient power level to rapidly bring the utensil temperature to the desired temperature for the selected mode and heat setting with minimum temperature overshoot.