EP2983452A2 - Cooking device and method for operating same - Google Patents

Abstract

Cooking appliance (1) with a cooking chamber (2), wherein the cooking chamber (2) is associated with a steam generating device (3) and a microwave device (4) for heating food. The steam generating device (3) is suitable and designed to supply the cooking chamber (2) with steam (5) and the microwave device (4) comprises a microwave generator (6), the microwave radiation (7) at an entry point (8) in the oven (2). As a result, a first cooking zone (10) in contact with the entry point (8) for the microwave radiation (7) is made available in the cooking space (2). Furthermore, in the cooking chamber (2) a limiting device (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) is provided, which is suitable and designed to provide in the cooking chamber (2) a second cooking zone (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) available which is delimited by the limiting device (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) from the entry point (8) of the microwave radiation (7) such that the entry of microwave radiation (7) into this cooking zone (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) is limited is. When operating the cooking appliance, the food at the same time for cooking in the cooking chamber (2) are given, the food according to their cooking time in a certain cooking zone (10, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) are given to allow the same cooking time of the food ,

Description

The present invention relates to a cooking appliance according to the preamble of claim 1 with at least one cooking chamber in which food can be cooked by means of at least one steam generator and at least one microwave device. The invention also relates to a method according to the preamble of claim 10 for operating such a cooking appliance.

The possibilities for a user when preparing food are constantly changing due to the technical developments in the field of cooking appliances. A user is offered a variety of cooking devices with different cooking methods, the individual cooking methods can be used in these devices alone or in a combination operation for cooking food.

A generic cooking appliance is from the document JP2007278529A known. This comprises at least one cooking chamber, wherein the cooking chamber at least one steam generator device and at least one microwave device for heating food are assigned. The steam generating device is suitable and designed to supply the cooking chamber with steam. The microwave device comprises at least one microwave generator, which introduces microwave radiation at at least one entry point into the cooking chamber. In this case, at least one first cooking zone is provided in the cooking space, which is in contact with the entry point for microwave radiation. Furthermore, at least one delimiting device is provided in the cooking space, which is suitable and designed to provide at least one second cooking zone in the cooking space, which is delimited by the at least one delimiting device from the point of entry of the microwave radiation such that the entry of microwave radiation into this second cooking area is limited.

Other cooking appliances with at least one steam generator or at least one microwave device are known from the documents JP2005308312A . JP2004361021A and US20030121913A1 known.

Among other things, cooking with steam is becoming increasingly popular. A steamer offers a user the possibility to prepare meals very gently with steam. It is even possible to prepare entire menus at once in a steamer.

The problem with the preparation of several foods at once in a cooking chamber, however, is that different foods also have a different length of cooking time. For example, when preparing a meal in a steamer, meat has a much longer cooking time than a tender vegetable. Even different types of vegetables can have very different cooking times.

In order to allow simultaneous finishing of a menu when preparing in a cooking chamber, the food is therefore usually introduced successively depending on the cooking time in the cooking chamber, so as to schedule all food on a common Garende.

However, a disadvantage of such a procedure is, inter alia, that a user must remain within reach of the cooking appliance during the entire cooking process in order to gradually insert the individual foods into the cooking chamber according to their cooking time. Furthermore escapes when refilling the food, a large part of the steam, which is energetically disadvantageous.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a cooking appliance and a method for operating such a cooking appliance, wherein a simultaneous cooking of food with different cooking times is possible.

This object is achieved by a cooking appliance with the features of claim 1 and by a method having the features of claim 10. Preferred developments of the invention are subject of the dependent claims. Further advantages and features of the invention will become apparent from the embodiments.

According to the invention, provision is made for the at least one delimiting device to be provided by at least one vessel device, wherein the vessel device has at least one covering device, which is designed as a plate device of the at least one delimiting device. Furthermore, it is provided according to the invention that the cooking appliance has at least one actuator device for displacing at least one delimiting device.

According to the invention, steam is preferably provided throughout the cooking chamber during cooking, wherein this is evenly distributed in particular throughout the cooking chamber. According to the invention, in particular, the fact that the entry of microwave radiation into the second zone is limited means that the entry of microwave radiation into this zone is minimized, reduced, shielded, or that the entry of radiation is completely prevented. In general, however, the microwave radiation is preferably distributed substantially uniformly over the cooking chamber, starting from the point of entry, wherein the entry of microwave radiation into certain cooking zones is limited only by the at least one limiting device.

In advantageous developments, further heating methods can be used in addition to the steam generator device and the microwave device. In particular, however, the invention relates to a cooking appliance which preferably cooks food in a combination operation by means of steam and, depending on the cooking zone, also with microwave radiation.

The cooking appliance according to the invention offers many advantages. A considerable advantage is that a cooking space provided by the cooking appliance according to the invention, in which there is substantially uniform steam for cooking food. In addition, depending on the food, a user can select a special cooking zone in which there is more, less or even no microwave radiation. This makes it possible that food with different cooking times, eg. As well as whole menus, at the same time in the cooking chamber for cooking can be introduced. This results from the fact that food with an actually longer cooking time then z. B. are introduced into a cooking zone with a higher concentration of microwave radiation. In addition to cooking with steam, the food is then cooked with a longer cooking time then with microwave radiation, so that the cooking time of this food is shortened and especially adjusted to a cooking time of a food with a shorter cooking time. So z. B. meat are introduced into a cooking zone in which a high microwave radiation is present. Vegetables, on the other hand, can be gently cooked by steam with less microwave radiation or even without microwave radiation.

The at least one limiting device preferably comprises at least one plate device. As such disk device can advantageously z. B. a sheet to be inserted into the cooking chamber. It is thereby achieved that at least one further cooking zone is provided in the cooking chamber, wherein the entry of microwave radiation is limited. In addition, such a plate device provides a storage area on which a cooking vessel can be placed in the other cooking zone.

Particularly preferably, the plate device is at least partially made of an at least partially radiation-transparent material. Depending on the choice of material or material composition, it is possible to set how much microwave radiation is to enter the next cooking zone through the at least one delimiting device. Depending on the nature of the material, it is possible to set whether the radiation should only be reduced or completely stopped.

In advantageous developments, the plate device has at least one passage opening, wherein the limitation of the microwave radiation can be set via the number and / or the size and / or the distribution of the passage openings. Preferably, such a plate device is then designed as a perforated plate, wherein the passage of microwave radiation is determined by the free cross section of each hole and the number of holes. In this case, the more microwave radiation can enter the next cooking plane, the larger the individual through-holes are and the more of these holes are present in a perforated plate.

It is further preferred that the at least one limiting devices are designed to be insertable and removable in the cooking chamber and can also be variably arranged in the cooking chamber. This makes it possible that the cooking chamber can be used without at least one of the limiting devices, whereby a large cooking space is provided, which can be used alone in steam mode, alone in microwave operation or in combination operation with steam and microwave radiation. In addition, different sized and also several cooking zones can be made available in the cooking chamber, depending on how many limiting devices are introduced into the oven.

Preferably, by the at least one of the limiting means substantially horizontally and / or vertically separated Garzonen be provided in the cooking chamber. For this purpose, the limiting devices or the plate devices of the limiting devices can preferably be inserted into corresponding slots in the cooking chamber, so that different cooking zones can easily be formed in the cooking chamber. It can also be provided on horizontally disposed limiting devices fasteners for other limiting devices, so z. B. vertically arranged limiting device is held or stabilized via a horizontally arranged limiting device.

Particularly preferably, at least one limiting device is provided by at least one vessel device. In this case, a cooking zone with limited microwave entry through a separate vessel is provided in such an embodiment, which can be easily adjusted in the cooking chamber as needed. Since such vessels can be provided in different sizes, also different sized Garzonen can be easily provided.

Advantageously, the vessel device comprises at least one covering device, which is designed as a plate device of the at least one limiting device. Thus, the loading opening of the vessel device can be easily z. B. by a disk device such. B. a perforated plate are covered. Such a lid of the vessel device formed as a perforated plate then limits the entry of the microwave radiation into the cooking zone provided by the vessel device. It is as described above, that depending on the size and number of through holes a certain dose of microwave radiation is held.

The vessel device preferably comprises at least one vapor inlet. This may be useful to provide an optimal vapor concentration in the vascular device available. This is the case, in particular, if the covering device or the at least one limiting device only allows very little microwave radiation to pass through or even completely stops the microwave radiation. Then any provided through holes on the at least one limiting device are not large enough to receive enough steam in the vessel device. A steam inlet can z. B. also include a flange to which a hose can be connected, which can be connected to a steam inlet of the cooking chamber. If a vessel device is no longer needed in a cooking chamber, the hose can then be easily removed again from the steam inlet of the cooking chamber.

Preferably, at least two delimiting devices are provided in the cooking chamber, wherein the delimiting devices are arranged relative to one another such that the effect of the delimiting devices amplifies from the entry point of the microwave radiation from cooking zone to cooking zone. By such staggering of the delimitation devices or the cooking zones, a cooking time gradient can be set particularly effectively, with foods having a considerably longer cooking time being set in a cooking zone with as much microwave radiation as possible.

According to the invention, an actuator device is provided for displacing at least one delimiting device. In one embodiment, the actuator device may preferably displace the plate devices or at least one plate device. In other embodiments, however, the entry of microwave device into a certain cooking zone can also be changed during the cooking operation by the actuator device. It is z. B. possible that the at least one limiting device is pushed over a cooking zone after a certain cooking time, so at the beginning of the cooking process still microwave radiation is used, but at a later date only steam is used. In other embodiments, a limiting device can also be displaced during the cooking process in such a way that the entrance for microwave radiation is released.

Preferably, the cooking chamber comprises at least two steam inlets, which are in operative connection with the steam generating device and via which steam can be conducted into the cooking chamber. In such an embodiment can be particularly effectively ensured that the uniform Steam distribution is available regardless of the number and the position of the at least one limiting devices in the cooking chamber.

Preferably, the steam inlets are then also provided controllable. Thus, depending on the number and configuration of the cooking zones, the supply of steam in the zones can be controlled. Then, among other things, depending on the cooking process, a certain zone can be supplied with more or less steam.

The inventive method is particularly suitable for operating a cooking appliance described above and for preparing food with different cooking time. The dishes are given regardless of their actual cooking in a preparation exclusively with steam for cooking in the oven, the food is given according to their cooking time in a specific cooking zone with more or less microwave radiation to allow the same cooking time of the food.

The method according to the invention also offers many advantages. A significant advantage is that meals of different cooking times can be placed in the cooking chamber at the same time, wherein a simultaneous preparation of the food is made possible by the fact that meals are given with a longer cooking actually longer in a cooking zone with more microwave radiation. This avoids that a user does not have to remain constantly near the cooking appliance during a possibly longer-lasting cooking process to bring food gradually according to their cooking time in the oven.

Preferably, the cooking appliance comprises at least one control device, which specifies to a user where and which delimiting devices are to be arranged in the cooking space and in which cooking zones the food is then to be cooked.

This provides a manual automatic programmer that assists a user in preparation, depending on the menu or food. First, the corresponding cooking zones in the cooking appliance z. B. provided by the insertion of corresponding disk devices. Subsequently, a user can simply load the different cooking zones with the appropriate foods. Thus, a supported automatic program is provided, which allows an optimal cooking result and in particular a simultaneous preparation of food.

Further advantages and features of the present invention will become apparent from the embodiments, which are explained below with reference to the accompanying figures.

Figur 1

eine rein schematische Darstellung eines erfindungsgemäßen Gargerätes in einer perspektivischen Ansicht;

Figur 2

eine rein schematische Frontalansicht in den Garraum des Gargerätes gemäß Figur 1;

Figur 3

eine rein schematische Frontalansicht in den Garraum einer anderen Ausführungsform eines erfindungsgemäßen Gargerätes; und

Figur 4

eine rein schematische Frontalansicht in den Garraum einer weiteren Ausführungsform eines erfindungsgemäßen Gargerätes.

In the figures show:

FIG. 1

a purely schematic representation of a cooking appliance according to the invention in a perspective view;

FIG. 2

a purely schematic frontal view in the cooking chamber of the cooking appliance according to FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3

a purely schematic frontal view into the cooking chamber of another embodiment of a cooking appliance according to the invention; and

FIG. 4

a purely schematic frontal view into the cooking chamber of another embodiment of a cooking appliance according to the invention.

In FIG. 1 a cooking appliance according to the invention is shown purely schematically in a perspective view, wherein for better clarity, the housing of the cooking appliance 1 has been omitted in the illustration. The cooking appliance 1 comprises a cooking chamber 2, in which food can be prepared by means of a steam generator 3 and a microwave device 4 in combination or in individual operation.

For this purpose, the steam generating device 3 is suitable and designed to initiate steam 5 in the cooking chamber 2 to cook the food gently by steam 5. The microwave device 4 comprises a microwave generator 6, which is provided in the embodiment shown here in the upper region of the cooking chamber 2 and there has an entry point 8 for the microwave radiation 7.

In the cooking chamber 2 of the cooking appliance 1 according to FIG. 1 four limiting devices 9.1-9.4 are provided which, in addition to the cooking zone 10 in contact with the point of entry 8 of the microwave radiation, provide four further cooking zones 10.1-10.4.

In this case, the limiting devices 9.1-9.4 are designed as plate devices 11, which are provided as plates 20, which can be inserted variably into receiving means provided in the cooking chamber 2. Depending on the cooking process, the limiting devices 9.1-9.4 can optionally be inserted into the cooking chamber 2, it also being possible to carry out cooking operations in which no or even more than four limiting devices 9.1-9.4 are provided.

The limiting devices 9.1-9.4 limit the intensity of the microwave radiation 7 from cooking zone to cooking zone. This means according to the invention, in particular, that the microwave radiation is reduced or weakened from cooking zone to cooking zone. For this purpose, the limiting devices 9.1-9.4 can be made for example of an at least partially radiation-transparent material 12, wherein the limitation of the microwave radiation 7 via the material texture can be adjusted. In the exemplary embodiment shown here, however, the limiting devices 9.1-9.3 have a multiplicity of passage openings 13 through which the microwave radiation 7 can pass from the point of entry 8 of the microwave radiation 7 into the next cooking zones 10.1-10.3. Only the limiting device 9.4 is designed as a closed sheet metal 20, so that in the cooking zone 10.4 only steam 5 is available for cooking food, but microwave radiation 7 is completely kept away from this zone 10.4.

The limiting devices 9.1-9.3, on the other hand, are designed as perforated plates 21 so that microwave radiation can pass into the cooking zones 10.1-10.3 through the passage openings 13 of the perforated plates 21. The intensity of the microwave radiation 7 in the respective zones 10.1-10.3 is determined by the size and / or the number and / or the arrangement of the through-openings 13 in the individual perforated plates 21.

The larger the passage opening 13 in the limiting devices 9.1-9.3, the more microwave radiation 7 can enter the next cooking zone. Because all limiting devices 9.1-9.3 are arranged substantially parallel and horizontally in the exemplary embodiment shown here, the effect of the individual limiting devices 9.1-9.3 is intensified in a graduated manner, the intensity of the microwave radiation 7 depending on the selection of the hole size of the individual limiting devices 9.1-9.3 in the individual cooking zones 10.1-10.4 can be set optimally.

In FIG. 1 is further purely schematically a control device 19 located, which is operatively connected to a display device not shown in operative connection, the z. B. may be formed as a display. A user can enter the food to be added in the cooking chamber 2 or the menu to be prepared into the control device 19, wherein the control device 19 then instructs the user which limiting devices 9.1-9.4 are to be used for the cooking process and how these limiting devices 9.1- 9.4 are to be introduced into the cooking chamber 2. Thus, the control device 19 can provide various cooking zones 10, 10.1-10.4 in the cooking chamber 2 in a manually assisted automatic program, wherein a user is additionally indicated in which of the cooking zones 10, 10.1-10.4 the corresponding foods are to be inserted.

Preferably, the vapor concentration in Garzonen 10, 10.1-10.4 is the same. Only the intensity of the microwave radiation 7 differs in the individual cooking zones 10, 10.1-10.4 and preferably decreases continuously and in a defined manner starting from the entry point 8 of the microwave radiation 7.

This makes it possible that food with a very different cooking time can be introduced simultaneously into the cooking chamber 2, and still require an equal cooking time by an assignment in a corresponding cooking zone 10, 10.1-10.4. As a result, a user can be allowed a particularly comfortable cooking, since he does not have to enter the food gradually into the cooking chamber 2 during a cooking process in accordance with their cooking time.

In FIG. 2 is the cooking chamber 2 of the cooking appliance 1 according to FIG. 1 shown in a purely schematic frontal view. Below the cooking chamber 2, the steam generating device 3 is provided which introduces steam 5 through various steam inlets 18 in the cooking chamber. In other embodiments, more or less steam inlets 18 may be provided. In addition, two steam outlets 22 are assigned to the cooking chamber 2, through which excess steam 5 can be removed. Above the cooking chamber 2, a microwave device 4 is provided which comprises a microwave generator 6, which introduces microwave radiation 7 into the cooking chamber 2 via an entry point 8. By limiting devices 9.1-9.4 2 cooking zones 10, 10.1-10.4 are provided in the cooking chamber.

The bars to the left of the cooking chamber 2 symbolize purely schematically the intensity of steam 5 and microwave radiation 7 in the individual cooking zones 10, 10.1-10.4. It can easily be seen that the full intensity of steam and microwave radiation 7 is present in the uppermost cooking zone 10, which is in direct contact with the entry point 8 for microwave radiation 7.

The embodiment according to FIG. 2 is constructed such that in all Garzonen 10, 10.1-10.4 the same high vapor concentration 5 is present. However, the individual limiting devices 9.1-9.4 continuously reduce the intensity of the microwave radiation 7 from the cooking zone 10 via the cooking zones 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 to the cooking zone 10.4. This results from the different size of the passage openings 13 in the limiting devices 9.1-9.3, which are configured as perforated plates 21. Only the limiting device 9.4 is formed as a closed plate 21, whereby the cooking zone 10.4 allows cooking exclusively with steam 5.

In FIG. 3 another embodiment of a cooking appliance 1 according to the invention is shown purely schematically. In this case, the cooking appliance 1 according to FIG. 3 a cooking chamber 2, which is heated by means of a steam generator 3 and a microwave generator 4. In contrast to the embodiment according to the Figures 1 and 2 However, the limiting devices 9.1-9.4 are not horizontal, but arranged substantially vertically. Even so, different cooking zones 10, 10.1-10.4 are provided.

In other advantageous embodiments, the limiting devices 9.1-9.4, depending on the design and more or less limiting devices can also be provided horizontally and vertically in the cooking chamber 2 vorgsehen. Thus, a variety of Garzonen 10, 10.1-10.4 can be provided very flexible in the cooking chamber 2, which provide depending on the cooking process, a sufficient number of Garzonen in an appropriate size.

In FIG. 3 is further indicated that the limiting devices 9.1-9.4 also an actuator 17 may be assigned. Such an actuator 17 can be used in many ways for optimal and comfortable cooking. Among other things, it is possible for the limiting devices 9.1-9.4 to be displaced by this actuator device 17 in the cooking chamber. Thus, among other things, automatically z. B. by pressing a button, the height of the individual Garzonen 10, 10.1-10.4 are set. Furthermore, it is also possible for the limiting devices 9.1-9.4 to be designed such that the size of the holes 13 in the individual perforated plates 21 can be changed or set by the actuator 17 during the cooking process. Thus, among other things, it can be achieved that a food is cooked at the beginning of the cooking process with a higher microwave radiation 7, wherein the intensity of the microwave radiation 7 is reduced in the course of the cooking process. Under certain circumstances, depending on the food, an even better cooking result can be achieved.

In FIG. 4 a further embodiment of a cooking appliance according to the invention is shown purely schematically. In this case, the individual cooking zones 10.1, 10.2 are provided with limited microwave radiation 7 depending on the cooking process by a certain number of vascular devices 14 in the embodiment shown here. In the exemplary embodiment shown here, the reduction of the microwave radiation 7 in the individual cooking zones 10.1, 10.2 is achieved in that the vessel devices 14 comprise a covering device 15, which is designed as a plate device 11 of the limiting device 9.1, 9.2.

Characterized in that in the lids 23 of the vessel devices 14 passage openings 13 of different sizes and in different numbers are provided, the intensity of the microwave radiation 7 is limited differently in the cooking zones 10.1, 10.2. The vessel devices 14 can be easily adjusted as needed in the cooking chamber 2. For this purpose, 2 different insertion levels or brackets can be provided on the cooking chamber walls in the cooking chamber.

Thus, even in the vessel devices 14, regardless of the size of the through holes 13 in the cover means 15 and in particular, if no through hole 13 is provided in the vessel means 14, sufficient steam is available to be associated with the vessel means 14, a separate steam inlet 16. This steam inlet 16 can be provided as an opening in the vessel means 14. But it is also possible that a steam inlet 16 is provided, which is designed such that it z. B. can be connected with a hose to a steam inlet 18 of the cooking chamber 2. Thus, a large amount of steam 5 can be blown into the vessel devices 14. In such a configuration, it may also be advantageous if the vessel devices 14 comprise a separate vapor outlet.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

Cooking appliance

2

oven

3

Steam generator device

4

microwave device

5

steam

6

microwave generator

7

microwave radiation

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entry point

9.1

limiting device

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limiting device

9.3

limiting device

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limiting device

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garzone

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garzone

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garzone

10.3

garzone

10.4

garzone

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plate means

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radiation-permeable material

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Through opening

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vessel means

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cover

16

steam inlet

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actuator

18

steam inlet

19

control device

20

sheet

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perforated sheet

22

steam outlet

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cover

Claims (11)

Cooking appliance (1) with at least one cooking chamber (2), wherein the cooking chamber (2) at least one steam generating device (3) and at least one microwave device (4) are assigned for heating food, the steam generating device (3) is suitable and designed to to supply the cooking chamber (2) with steam (5) and wherein the microwave device (4) at least one microwave generator (6), the microwave radiation (7) at at least one entry point (8) in the cooking chamber (2) brings and wherein in the Cooking chamber (2) at least a first cooking zone (10) in contact with the entry point (8) for the microwave radiation (7) is provided, wherein in the cooking chamber (2) at least one limiting device (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) arranged is that is suitable and adapted to provide in the cooking chamber (2) at least one second cooking zone (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4), which by the at least one limiting means (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) dera rt opposite the entry point (8) of the microwave radiation (7) is delimited that the entry of microwave radiation (7) in this second cooking zone (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) is limited, characterized
in that the at least one delimiting device (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) is provided by at least one vessel device (14), wherein the vessel device (14) has at least one covering device (15) serving as a plate device (11) of the at least one Limiting device (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) is formed and / or
that the cooking appliance (1) has at least one actuator device (17) for displacing the at least one limiting means (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4). Cooking appliance (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the plate device (11) consists at least in sections of an at least partially radiation-permeable material (12). Cooking appliance (1) according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that the plate device (11) has at least one passage opening (13), wherein the number and / or the size and / or the distribution of the passage openings (13) limiting the microwave radiation (7) is adjustable. Cooking appliance (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the at least one limiting device (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) in the cooking chamber (2) are insertable and removable formed and can be variably arranged in the cooking chamber. Cooking appliance (1) according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the cooking chamber (2) at least two limiting means (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) are arranged, wherein by the limiting means (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) in Essentially horizontally and / or vertically separated Garzonen (10, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) are provided in the cooking chamber (2) or that by the at least one limiting means (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) is substantially horizontal or vertical separated Garzonen (10, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) are provided in the cooking chamber (2). Cooking appliance (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the vessel device (14) has at least one steam inlet (16). Cooking appliance (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the cooking chamber (2) at least two limiting means (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) are arranged, wherein the limiting means (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) arranged to each other are that the effect of the limiting means (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) starting from the entry point (8) of the microwave radiation (7) of Garzone (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) to Garzone (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 ) strengthened. Cooking appliance (1) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cooking chamber (2) has at least two steam inlets (18) through which steam (5) into the cooking chamber (2) can be conducted. Cooking appliance (1) according to claim 8, characterized in that the steam inlets (18) are controllable. Method for preparing meals of different cooking time in a cooking appliance (1) with at least one cooking chamber (2) and at least one steam generator device (3) and at least one microwave device (4) for heating food, the steam generator device (3) being suitable and designed for this purpose to supply the cooking chamber (2) with steam (5) and wherein the microwave device (4) at least one microwave generator (6), the microwave radiation (7) at at least one entry point (8) in the cooking chamber (2) and introduces at least one first cooking zone (10) in contact with the entry point (8) for the microwave radiation (7) is made available to the cooking space (2), wherein at least one delimiting device (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) is provided in the cooking space (2). is arranged, which is suitable and adapted to provide in the cooking chamber (2) at least a second cooking zone (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) available, which by the at least one limiter ungeinrichtung (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) in such a way opposite the entry point (8) of Microwave radiation (7) is delimited that the entry of microwave radiation (7) in at least one second cooking zone (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) is limited,
characterized,
that the food is given at the same time for cooking in the cooking chamber (2), wherein the food according to their cooking time in a specific cooking zone (10, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) are given by different concentration of the microwave radiation (7) in the respective cooking zone (10, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) to match the cooking time of the food. A method according to claim 10, characterized in that the cooking appliance (1) has a control device (19) which predetermines a user according to the cooking times of the respective food, where and which of the at least one limiting device (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) in the Garraum be arranged and in which Garzonen (10, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4) the food should be cooked.

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