Cookware and cook-packs for narrowband irradiation cooking and systems and methods thereof
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1. A cookware vessel for supporting a comestible item in an oven cavity, the oven cavity having irradiation arrays that emit visible or infrared irradiation at only desired narrow wavelength bands, the vessel comprising:
- a vessel location feature to uniquely orient and position the cookware vessel in the oven cavity relative to the arrays to facilitate irradiation of the comestible for cooking by the arrays,wherein the cookware vessel is comprised of a material that is transparent at visible or infrared wavelength bands of irradiation used for cooking and wherein the cookware vessel is comprised of plastic material.
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Abstract
A methodology and product or system configurations are provided which allow food to be directly irradiated for cooking applications which involve the impingement of direct radiant energy on food or comestible items. Cooking vessels or cook-packs are used that are optically transmissive in visible or infrared narrow wavelength bands emitted in suitable narrowband cooking or heating systems.
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1. A cookware vessel for supporting a comestible item in an oven cavity, the oven cavity having irradiation arrays that emit visible or infrared irradiation at only desired narrow wavelength bands, the vessel comprising:
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a vessel location feature to uniquely orient and position the cookware vessel in the oven cavity relative to the arrays to facilitate irradiation of the comestible for cooking by the arrays, wherein the cookware vessel is comprised of a material that is transparent at visible or infrared wavelength bands of irradiation used for cooking and wherein the cookware vessel is comprised of plastic material. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A cookware vessel for supporting a comestible item in an oven cavity, the oven cavity having irradiation arrays that emit visible or infrared irradiation at only desired narrow wavelength bands, the vessel comprising:
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a vessel location feature to uniquely orient and position the cookware vessel in the oven cavity relative to the arrays to facilitate irradiation of the comestible for cooking by the arrays, wherein the cookware vessel is comprised of a material that is transparent at visible or infrared wavelength bands of irradiation used for cooking and wherein the cookware vessel is configured to facilitate irradiation of the comestible from top and bottom directions.
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4. A cook-pack for storing and/or cooking a comestible item in an oven cavity, the oven cavity having irradiation arrays that emit visible or infrared irradiation at only desired narrow wavelength bands, the cook-pack comprising:
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a plastic base portion into which the comestible item is placed, the plastic base portion being transparent at visible or infrared wavelength bands of irradiation used for cooking to facilitate heating the comestible by the irradiation emitted by the arrays; and a location feature to uniquely locate the cook-pack in the oven cavity relative to the arrays to facilitate irradiation of the comestible for cooking by the narrowband arrays. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A cook-pack for storing and cooking a comestible item in an oven cavity, the cook-pack comprising:
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a plastic base portion into which the comestible item is placed, the plastic base portion being transparent at visible or infrared narrow wavelength bands of irradiation emitted by irradiation arrays in the oven cavity that emit visible or infrared irradiation at only desired narrow wavelength bands to facilitate heating the comestible by the irradiation emitted by the arrays; and a location feature to locate the cook-pack in the oven cavity relative to the arrays to facilitate irradiation of the comestible for cooking by the arrays, wherein the cook-pack has associated codes or markings specifying at least one of cooking parameters or oven configuration parameters specific to the comestible in the cook-pack. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31)
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32. A cookware vessel for supporting a comestible item in an oven cavity, the oven cavity having irradiation arrays that emit visible or infrared irradiation at only desired narrow wavelength bands, the vessel comprising:
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a vessel location feature to uniquely orient and position the cookware vessel in the oven cavity relative to the arrays to facilitate irradiation of the comestible for cooking by the arrays, wherein the cookware vessel is comprised of a material that is transparent at visible or infrared wavelength bands of irradiation used for cooking, wherein the cookware vessel further comprises codes specifying at least one of cooking parameters or oven configuration parameters and wherein the codes include locational information.
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