HIGH TEMPERATURE BAKE OVEN AND METHOD

• US 20100147281A1
• Filed: 02/25/2010
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: North Atlantic Imports LLC
• Original Assignee: Willard Gustavsen
• Inventors: Gustavsen, Willard
• Granted Patent: US 8,578,927 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 126/21.A
• CPC Class Codes: F24B 1/003 on which a removable cooking element is arranged

Abstract

A method of baking bread in a high temperature bake oven, comprising initiating a heating element in a lower portion of the bake oven, locating the bread on a first pizza stone located above the heating element, directing circulating heated air in the oven with a baffle around the first pizza stone to between the first pizza stone and a second pizza stone located above the first pizza stone, and directing the circulating heated air in the oven rapidly from between the first and second pizza stones out of the oven through an opening in the front of the oven.

Claims

1. A method of rapidly baking bread, including pizza, in a high temperature bake oven, comprising the following steps:

initiating a heating element in a lower portion of the bake oven;

locating the bread to be baked on a first pizza stone located above the heating element in the oven, such that the heating element heats the first pizza stone and the bread;

directing circulating heated air in the oven with a baffle from the heating element around the first pizza stone to between the first pizza stone and a second pizza stone located above and generally parallel to the first pizza stone, heating the bread on the first pizza stone, and the second pizza stone heating the bread by radiation; and

directing the circulating heated air in the oven rapidly from between the first and second pizza stones over the bread and out of the high temperature bake oven though an opening in the front of the oven.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the bracket is located adjacent a back wall of the of the oven enclosure angled upwardly adjacent the back wall of the oven generally toward the second pizza stone thereby directing heated convection air upwardly around the first pizza stone and between the first and second pizza stones heating the bread and the second pizza stone.

3. The method as defined in claim 2, wherein an end of the baffle is angled downwardly generally toward the first pizza stone directing the heated convection air downwardly onto the bread on the first pizza stone and upwardly against the second pizza stone.

4. The method as defined in claim 2, wherein the oven includes a deflector adjacent the opening in the front of the oven extending generally toward the first pizza stone from adjacent the second pizza stone, the method including directing heated convection air from adjacent the second pizza stone generally downwardly toward the first pizza stone.

5. The method as defined in claim 2, wherein the baffle is located opposite the opening in the front of the oven directing heated convection air between the first and second pizza stones toward the opening in the front of the oven rapidly circulating heated convection air from the back of the oven over the bread and through the front open end of the oven enclosure.

6. A method of rapidly baking a pizza in a high temperature bake oven, wherein the oven includes an enclosure having an open front end, a heating element in a lower portion of the oven enclosure, a first pizza stone located above the heating element, a second pizza stone located above and generally parallel to the first pizza stone and a baffle angled upwardly generally toward the second pizza stone, the method comprising the following steps:

locating a pizza to be baked on the first pizza stone;

igniting the heating element, thereby directing heated convection air upwardly from the heating element to the first pizza stone, heating the pizza on the first pizza stone; and

directing heated convection air upwardly with the baffle around the first pizza stone, between the first and second pizza stones, over the pizza, rapidly circulating heated convection air though the oven enclosure between the first and second pizza stones and out of the oven enclosure through the open front end of the high temperature bake oven.

7. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein the bracket is located adjacent a back wall of the oven enclosure angled upwardly from adjacent a back wall of the oven enclosure generally toward the second pizza stone, directing heated convection air from the heating element around the first pizza stone over the pizza between the first and second pizza stones to the open front end of the oven enclosure.

8. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein the first pizza stone is supported on a rotatable member, the method of this invention including rotating the first pizza stone and the pizza during baking.

9. The method as defined in claim 8, wherein he first pizza stone is supported on a generally hemispherical enclosure and the method of this invention including heating the generally hemispherical enclosure with the heating element, while avoiding overheating of the first pizza plate and the pizza.

10. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein the first pizza plate is supported on a generally hemispherical support having an open end receiving the first pizza stone and generally enclosing the side of the first pizza stone opposite the heating element, the method including heating generally hemispherical support, thereby heating the first pizza plate and the pizza, while avoiding overheating of the first pizza plate and the pizza.

11. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein an end of the baffle is angled downwardly toward the pizza and between the first and second pizza stones.

12. The method as defined in claim 6, wherein the oven includes a deflector adjacent the open front end extending generally toward the first pizza stone from adjacent the second pizza stone, the method including directing heated convection air downwardly from adjacent the second pizza stone toward the first pizza stone.