PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for cooking sweet potatoes by which highly-sweet delicious baked sweet potatoes are easily prepared.SOLUTION: A method for cooking sweet potatoes comprises putting sweet potatoes in a single cooking chamber 12 to cook them. The method for cooking sweet potatoes includes: a primary heating process of heating the inside of the cooking chamber 12 charged with the sweet potatoes at temperature of 65-70°C suitable for saccharification with β-amylase for a predetermined period of time and a secondary heating process of heating the inside of the cooking chamber 12 with superheated steam at 135-140°C for a predetermined period of time after the primary heating process.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】簡単に甘みの多いおいしい焼き芋を作る。【解決手段】単一の調理庫12に薩摩芋を収容して加熱調理する薩摩芋の加熱調理方法であって、この薩摩芋の調理方法は、薩摩芋を収容した調理庫12内をβアミラーゼによる糖化に適した温度として65℃~70℃にて所定時間加熱処理する第1加熱工程と、この第1加熱工程後に調理庫12内を135℃~140℃の過熱水蒸気を用いて所定時間加熱処理する第2加熱工程とを実行する。【選択図】図3
