Apparatus and process for cooking potatoes

Details Apparatus and process for cooking potatoes Apparatus and process for cooking potatoes

1993-08-10

1995-08-29

Simone, Timothy F.

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Cooking

Confining, conforming or molding support

34225, 993235, 99330, 99403, 99415, 99418, 99450, 126 21A, 219400, 426520, 426523, A47J 3700, A47J 3704

Patent

active

054450730

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and process of cooking potato pieces fluidized in upwardly flowing heated air in an inverted conical cooking chamber to produce hot browned potatoes with a moisture content over 40%. According to the invention the apparatus is provided with a multispeed air blower to provide higher pressure heated air to the bottom of cooking chamber at startup of cooking to overcome jamming of potato pieces; supplemented by mechanically moving a perforated bottom support platform upwardly in the cooking chamber at startup of cooking to push any jammed potato pieces into the upwardly flowing air to assure fluidization.

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