Heating cooker
A heating cooker is provided with: a container for housing food; a housing unit for housing the container; a discharge port for discharging air in the lateral direction towards the inside of the housing unit, the discharge port being provided at the upper part of a side wall of the housing unit; outlet ports through which air in the housing unit flows out, the outlet ports being provided to the housing unit; an airflow duct communicating the outlet ports and the discharge port to each other; an airflow fan for channeling air flowing into the airflow duct towards the discharge port; and a duct heater, which is a heating unit for heating the air channeled into the airflow duct.
1. A heating cooker, comprising:
a container, an upper surface of which is open, and that accommodates an object to be heated;
a housing unit for the container, an upper surface of the housing unit being openable/closable with a lid;
a discharge port that is disposed in an upper portion of a side wall of the housing unit, and that discharges air laterally toward an inside of the housing unit;
an outlet port that is disposed in the housing unit, and through which air inside the housing flows out of the housing unit;
an airflow duct that allows the outlet port and the discharge port to communicate with each other;
an airflow fan that forces air flowing into the airflow duct to flow toward the discharge port;
a heating unit that heats air flowing through the airflow duct; and
an airflow guide panel that directs air discharged from the discharge port downward in the container,
wherein the outlet port and the discharge port are in the sidewall of the housing unit, at the same height and adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the side wall.
2. The heating cooker according to claim 1 , wherein the discharge port is disposed above an upper end of the container.
3. The heating cooker according to claim 1 , wherein the outlet port is disposed above an upper end of the container.
4. The heating cooker according to claim 1 , further comprising a stirrer unit that stirs the object to be heated.