Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1986-07-10
1988-03-22
Hunter, H. Hampton
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99332, 99373, 99404, 99407, 99410, A47J 3100, A47J 3712
Patent
active
047320800
ABSTRACT:
A pre-cooking operation pre-cooks a pasta product for a time substantially less than required to bring it to serving consistency. Pre-cooking is quenched with cold water and a measured weight of the drained product is sealed in a single-serving container with a measured amount of excess water. The pasta absorbs the excess water to achieve a water content approximating that of a freshly cooked pasta. Heating, dispensing a sauce on the pasta and delivering the product to a purchaser are performed in a rapid automatic sequence. Heating is accelerated by jets of hot water entering a strainer containing the pasta. Walls of a heating pot are double-walled with hot water continuously circulating therethrough to further accelerate the heating. The strainer is raised, drained and the pasta is released into a serving container. A serving of sauce, heated in a sealed heat exchanger is dispensed over the pasta. A water jet, optionally followed by an air jet cleans the sauce nozzle after each use.
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Hunter H. Hampton
Morrison Thomas R.
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