Claims
- 1. The method of cooking food in a lightwave oven having a plurality of high power lamps providing radiant energy in the electromagnetic spectrum including a significant portion in the near-visible and visible ranges comprising the steps of:
- irradiating the food by applying power to at least one of said lamps without vaporizing all the surface water on the food for avoiding browning in the surface thereby enabling deep penetration of the food by irradiation in the near visible and visible ranges
- sensing the temperature of the food to a pre-determined degree, then terminating irradiation of the food and then applying reduced irradiation to the food.
- 2. The method of cooking food in a lightwave oven having a plurality of high power lamps providing radiant energy in the electromagnetic spectrum including a significant portion in the near-visible and visible ranges comprising the steps of:
- irradiating the food by applying power to at least one of said lamps without vaporizing all the surface water on the food for avoiding browning in the surface thereby enabling deep penetration of the food by irradiation in the near-visible and visible ranges,
- then applying reduced irradiation to the food,
- sensing the temperature of the food to a pre-determined degree and
- then terminating irradiation of the food.
- 3. The method of cooking food in a lightwave oven having at least one high power lamp providing radiant energy in the electromagnetic spectrum including a significant portion in the near-visible and visible ranges comprising the steps of:
- irradiating the food by applying power to said at least one lamp without vaporizing all of the surface water on the food for avoiding browning of the surface thereby enabling deep penetration of the food by radiation in the near-visible and visible ranges,
- sensing the temperature of the food to a pre-determined degree and
- then turning off said at least one lamp until water is replenished from within the food onto the surface of the food.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/146,415, filed Nov. 1, 1993, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,665,259, and a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 738,207 filed on Jul. 30, 1991 (now abandoned), which was a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 350,024 filed on May 12, 1989, now U.S. Letters Pat. No. 5,036,179 issued Jul. 30, 1991, and a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 769,340, filed Oct. 1, 1991 (now abandoned), which was a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 664,494, filed Mar. 5, 1991 (now abandoned), which was a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 195,967, filed May 19, 1988 (now abandoned).
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