PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooking apparatus by which uniform cooking is achieved by enhancing heat transmission to a food material and a floating foreign matter on the liquid face of a heating liquid can be removed.SOLUTION: A tank 31 for storing the heating liquid W, a conveying device 10 conveying the food material in the tank 31 while dividing the material into cells, a pressing plate 22, and a pressing device 20 conveying the material in every cell while submerging the material into the heating liquid W are provided in the cooking device. Further the floating foreign matter is removed by a heating tank incorporated with a heater, which receives the heating liquid W overflowing the tank 31 of the cooking apparatus, a middle tank receiving the heating liquid W overflowing the heating tank, a replenishing tank replenishing a fresh heating liquid in a constant amount into the heating tank, and a circulating pump supplying the heating liquid from the heating tank to the tank 31.COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT【課題】材料に対する熱の通りをよくして均一な加熱調理を実現するとともに加熱液の液面上の浮遊異物を除去する。【解決手段】加熱液Wを収納する槽31と、槽31内の材料をセルごとに区分して搬送する搬送装置10と、押え板22、各セル内の材料を加熱液W中に沈めて搬送する押え装置20を設ける。また、加熱調理装置の槽31から溢れる加熱液Wを受けるヒータ内蔵の加熱タンクと、加熱タンクから溢れる加熱液Wを受ける中間タンクと、加熱タンクに新鮮な加熱液を定量補充する補充タンクと、加熱タンクからの加熱液を槽31に供給する循環ポンプにより浮遊異物の除去を行う。【選択図】図1
