US 11,754,292 B2
Heating cooker and heating cooking method
Aiko Mori, Yokohama (JP); and Ritsuya Yamamoto, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Feb. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/168,678.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-023245 (JP), filed on Feb. 14, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0006591 (KR), filed on Jan. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2021/0254835 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. F24C 7/08 (2006.01); H05B 6/68 (2006.01); F24C 15/00 (2006.01); F24C 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC F24C 7/087 (2013.01) [F24C 7/02 (2013.01); F24C 15/003 (2013.01); H05B 6/687 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A heating cooker comprising:
a main body comprising a heating chamber in which a food ingredient is disposed;
a heater configured to heat an inside of the heating chamber;
a temperature detector configured to detect an internal temperature of the food ingredient; and
at least one processor configured to:
control the heater to perform a low-speed heating cooking operation, in which the internal temperature of the food ingredient is increased to a first reference temperature by setting a rate of internal temperature rise of the food ingredient equal to or less than a first reference rate;
control the heater to perform a protein denaturation operation, in which the internal temperature of the food ingredient is increased to a temperature in a range from the first reference temperature to a second reference temperature by setting the rate of internal temperature rise of the food ingredient equal to or greater than a second reference rate which is greater than the first reference rate; and
based on a thickness of the food ingredient being equal to or less than a reference thickness, control the heater to omit the low-speed heating cooking operation, and start the protein denaturation operation.