Claims
- 1. A rotisserie oven for cooking food comprising
- heating means for heating food located in the rotisserie oven;
- air temperature sensing means for sensing the temperature of air in said rotisserie oven; and,
- control means, responsive to the air temperature sensing means for selectively controlling said heating means, wherein said control means is programmable with a predetermined cook time, a predetermined cook temperature and a load compensation factor;
- wherein said control means further comprises means for determining an actual cook time derived from said predetermined cook time, the difference between the sensed temperature of the air in said rotisserie oven and the predetermined cook temperature, and the load compensation factor said heating means heating said food for said actual cook time.
- 2. The oven of claim 1 wherein said actual cook time is determined by adding a load compensation adjustment to said predetermined cook time if said sensed temperature of air in said rotisserie oven is below said set point temperature and subtracting a load compensation adjustment from said predetermined cook time if said sensed temperature is above said set point temperature.
- 3. The oven of claim 2 wherein said load compensation adjustment is determined by multiplying a load compensation factor by the difference between said predetermined cook temperature and the sensed air temperature.
- 4. The oven of claim 1 wherein said load compensation adjustment is determined by determining the percent difference between said sensed air temperature and the predetermined cook time.
- 5. The oven of claim 4 wherein said percent difference is multiplied by a load compensation factor to obtain a load compensation adjustment and wherein said load compensation adjustment is added to or subtracted from said predetermined cook time.
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 07/746,910 filed Aug. 19, 1991 entitled "PROGRAMMABLE LOAD COMPENSATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN A FOOD OVEN", now U.S. Pat. No. 5,317,130, which is related by subject matter to commonly owned applications entitled "PREHEATING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN A FOOD OVEN", Ser. No. 07/746,760 filed Aug. 19, 1991, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,296,683 and to "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING A FOOD OVEN", Ser. No. 07/748,200 filed Aug. 19, 1991, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,182,439.
Source code for the process performed by the present invention in a preferred embodiment is contained in the parent application Ser. No. 07/746,910, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,182,439, in 224 frames on 4 microfiche, in the microfiche appendix.
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