US 11,751,711 B2
Low-pressure cooking method and cookware vessel adapted for the same
Stanley Kin Sui Cheng, Hillsborough, CA (US); Edward S. Sherman, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Chun Wing Wong, Hong Kong (CN); Kam Yuen Li, Hong Kong (CN); and Hin Hang Homer Cheung, Hong Kong (CN)
Assigned to Meyer Intellectual Properties Limited
Filed by Meyer Intellectual Properties Limited, Kowloon (HK)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/88,388.
Application 17/088,388 is a division of application No. 14/285,126, filed on May 22, 2014, granted, now 11,064,833.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/001,176, filed on May 21, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/897,698, filed on Oct. 30, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/890,060, filed on Oct. 11, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/826,913, filed on May 23, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2021/0259452 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. A47J 27/04 (2006.01); A47J 27/08 (2006.01); A47J 27/00 (2006.01); H05B 6/12 (2006.01); A23L 5/10 (2016.01); A47J 36/32 (2006.01); H05B 6/06 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 27/04 (2013.01) [A23L 5/13 (2016.08); A47J 27/004 (2013.01); A47J 27/08 (2013.01); A47J 36/321 (2018.08); H05B 6/062 (2013.01); H05B 6/129 (2013.01); H05B 6/1236 (2013.01); A47J 2027/043 (2013.01); H05B 2213/06 (2013.01); Y02B 40/00 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cooking assembly comprising:
a. a controller,
b. a cookware vessel having a bottom portion, substantially upright sidewall extending upward there from to terminate at a rim, the sidewall encircling said bottom portion to form an interior portion capable of retaining a fluid,
c. a lid adapted with a gasket to engage said cookware vessel at the rim thereof to form a vacuum seal therewith, the lid having at least one sealable penetration formed in the surface thereof,
d. a transmitter device adapted for removable supported engagement with the lid and in signal communication with the controller, the transmitter device having a thermal probe that enters an interior portion of the cookware vessel via the sealable penetration of the lid,
e. wherein the controller is operative to:
1. cause water in the cookware vessel to be converted to a sufficient quantity of water vapor to replace the atmospheric content of the cookware vessel,
2. wherein, to cause the water in the cookware vessel to be converted to the sufficient quantity of the water vapor to replace the atmospheric content of the cookware vessel, the controller is further operative to:
i) cause a heating power to be applied to the cookware vessel,
ii) measure a first period of time taken for the heating power to increase temperature within the cookware vessel to a predetermined temperature of at least about 94° C., and
(iii) cause the heating power applied to the cookware vessel to be maintained for a second period of time thereafter that is determined from the first period of time, wherein after the second period of time a sufficient quantity of the water has been converted to water vapor to replace the atmospheric content of the cookware vessel and the temperature in the cookware vessel is at a first temperature that is greater than the redetermined temperature,
3. cause the heating power applied to the cookware vessel to be reduced after the second period of time to bring the cookware vessel to a second temperature lower than the first temperature, wherein condensation of the water vapor within the cookware vessel causes an internal reduction pressure sufficient to engage the lid to seal with the rim of the vessel, and
4. cause the cookware vessel to be maintained at the second temperature for a predetermined amount of time.