Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Product having open-ended cavity
Patent
1994-02-04
1996-01-09
Czaja, Donald E.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Product having open-ended cavity
426557, 426412, 426413, A21C 1100, A23L 116
Patent
active
054827256
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is concerned with an alimentary paste food product, as well as with methods of manufacture of the same.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Hamburgers and sandwiches are well-known in the field of fast foods. These products can be conveniently eaten without needing neither a plate, nor any implement, since they are held directly in the hand either wrapped or not in a napkin. They can thus be eaten without difficulty even while walking.
On the other hand, alimentary paste products such as for example spaghetti and macaroni are quite popular. To eat such alimentary paste products, it is necessary to serve them in a hollow dish and to have at least a fork. Further, the presence of the sauce makes it very difficult to eat these alimentary paste products without damaging clothes by soiling them.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the object of this invention is to provide alimentary paste products in a new form, which after cooking can be eaten without any implement, i.e. by holding them directly in the hand, like a sandwich or a hamburger.
An object of the invention is an alimentary paste food product, characterized in that it includes a plurality of elongate hollow parallel lengths made of alimentary paste and connected together, one end of the lengths forming a first surface, which is preferably substantially planar, on one side of the food product.
Another object of the invention are methods of manufacture of this alimentary paste food product.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to tile invention, the alimentary paste food product is formed of a parallel arrangement of elongate lengths of hollow alimentary paste connected together. One of the ends of these lengths forms a first surface, which is preferably substantially planar, on one side of the food product. In a first embodiment of the invention, said surface of the food product is closed by a plate of alimentary paste of the same shape and of the same size as the arrangement.
In a second embodiment of the invention, the ends of lengths of the alimentary paste products forming the first surface, are closed on one side.
In another version of this embodiment, the arrangement of the alimentary paste lengths is surrounded at least partly by a plastic wrapping which can withstand cooking in water and which has openings.
In another version of these embodiments, the open ends of the lengths of the alimentary paste products form a second surface, preferably planar and parallel to the first one.
The alimentary paste food product according to the invention can be shaped into a square, a rectangular, a triangular, a polygonal or a circular configuration.
The food product can be formed in a hexagonal configuration. In this case, it includes at least 17 lengths of alimentary paste, with each side of the hexagon being comprised of 3 lengths of alimentary paste. In another version, the hexagonal food product includes 37 lengths of alimentary paste, each side of the hexagon being comprised in this case of 4 lengths of alimentary paste. In another version, it includes 61 lengths of alimentary paste, each side of the hexagon being comprised in this case of 5 lengths of alimentary paste. It can also include 91 lengths of alimentary paste, each side of the hexagon being then comprised of 6 lengths of alimentary paste.
These lengths can consist of small cylindrical macaronis having a circular, oval or polygonal cross-section, and having a length which ranges preferably from 1 to 4 cm.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The appended drawings illustrate by way of example two embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the food product according to the first embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view at 45.degree. of the food product according to the second embodiment.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the food product according to the second embodiment.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
FIG. 1 shows a hexagonal arrangement of 61 small macaronis 1a placed parallel to one another and having all a height of
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Czaja Donald E.
Koh Choon P.
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