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An improved cooking apparatus or cooker which heats and cooks food items in a cooking liquid medium by effectively controlling the temperature of the liquid medium. The cooker starts forcible combustion irrespective of the temperature of the liquid medium detected by a temperature sensor when the op

An improved cooking apparatus or cooker which heats and cooks food items in a cooking liquid medium by effectively controlling the temperature of the liquid medium. The cooker starts forcible combustion irrespective of the temperature of the liquid medium detected by a temperature sensor when the operator presses a forcible combustion switch. This system minimizes a time lag between placing food items into the cooking liquid medium and start of combustion, which is attributable to the uneven temperature distribution and convection of the cooking liquid medium, thus efficiently reducing undesirable temperature drop of the cooking liquid medium due to cold food items. Alternatively, the cooker determines presence of food items in the cooking liquid medium according to the downward slope in temperature instead of a press of the forcible combustion switch and automatically starts forcible combustion.

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A cooker for cooking food items in a cooking medium, said cooker comprising heating means for heating said cooking medium to within a predetermined temperature range, temperature detecting means for detecting temperature of said cooking medium, temperature control means for controlling said heating

A cooker for cooking food items in a cooking medium, said cooker comprising heating means for heating said cooking medium to within a predetermined temperature range, temperature detecting means for detecting temperature of said cooking medium, temperature control means for controlling said heating means to start and stop heating based on the temperature of said cooking medium detected by said temperature detecting means so as to maintain said cooking medium within said predetermined temperature range; forcible heating control means for controlling said heating means to start forcible heating of said cooking medium irrespective of the temperature of said cooking medium as detected by said temperature detecting means; and temperature control resumption means connected with said temperature control means and with said forcible heating control means for producing a signal in response to the temperature of said cooking medium to stop forcible heating and start heating based on the temperature of said cooking medium.