Assembly for steam heating or cooking food products and its method of operation

摘要

An assembly for steam heating or cooking given food products, particularly hot dogs and buns, is disclosed herein along with its method of operation. The assembly includes a housing having at least one internal cooking chamber, a chamber inlet door a vertically lower chamber outlet door and a downhill ramp extending between the two doors within the chamber. The ramp serves to support one or more food supporting trays successively placed in the chamber while the latter is maintained at a preset temperature by introducing steam therein in a controlled fashion. All of the trays within the chamber move down the ramp one at a time, toward the exit door and are removed from the chamber, again one at a time, in the order in which they were placed therein. This assures that one tray does not remain in the chamber too long while another is taken out too soon.