Larry Brown's

The Heaviside Plan ™

Cooking

Introduction

In
Space Heat we outlined the development of Free Heat ™ units to heat individual rooms. Now we take up the matter of cooking. Currently home cooking is performed on a cooking range consisting of four surface "burners" and one or two ovens. It would be quite easy to simply replace the heat sources in the cooking range with Free Heat ™ units. This would involve replacing the existing range in the house with a new Free Heat Range ™. If desired the microwave oven could be replaced with a Free Heat Forced Convection Oven ™. For "third world" countries the Free Heat ™ units used for space heating could be arranged so the unit could also serve as a "one burner" cooking unit.

Development

A trip to the appliance store reveals that cooking ranges come in a variety of styles and sizes with different fuel options. The easiest to convert to a Free Heat Range ™ would be the electric range with a flat cooking surface. The surface "burner" heating elements would be replaced with Free Heat ™ units arranged so all the heat propagated up. The controls could be electronic and perhaps thermostatically control the temperature of the pan being heated. The heat should appear within one microsecond after activating the laser diode.

The oven would be like the oven in a conventional electric range with the heating element(s) replaced with a Free Heat ™ unit(s). The laser diode would have to be shielded so it didn't get cooked. The oven controls can be electronic as for the surface "burners."

The substitute for the microwave oven would be like the oven in the Free Heat Range ™ but as a stand alone unit. A fan would force the air throughout the oven interior. The controls can be like the controls on a microwave oven.

Summary

Five or six Free Heat ™ units would provide heat for 4 surface "burners" and one or two ovens. Also, a Free Heat ™ unit could provide heat for a forced convection oven (fast like a microwave oven).

Updated:  May 14, A.D. 2009

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