Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Heating above ambient temperature
Patent
1996-06-05
1999-10-19
Houtteman, Scott W.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Heating above ambient temperature
126152R, 99450, 249 53R, 426512, 426 89, A21B 102
Patent
active
059685778
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
The invention relates to a cake baking process and device.
According to the prior art, single-part cake tins, for example square cake tins or gugelhupf tins, are used for baking cakes.
The prior art further includes two-part baking tins, so-called spring forms, which comprise a base sheet and a baking ring fastened resiliently around the latter.
The disadvantage with these tins is that a separate baking tin is necessary for each type and size of cake, with the result that a large number of different baking tins are accumulated in the household.
Furthermore, these baking tins always have to be greased prior to baking in order that the cake is released easily from the baking tin after baking.
The cake tins included in the prior art are placed on a baking sheet or the like for baking purposes. The disadvantage with this is that the baking sheet and then the baking tin have to be heated by the heat of the oven before the heat from the base penetrates to the cake mix.
Furthermore, the transfer of heat to the mix from the various directions is extremely non-uniform. At the base of the baking tin, the baking sheet and base of the baking tin have to be heated, and, at the side, the lateral part of the baking tin is heated. The surface of the cake mix is usually exposed, with the result that this surface is subjected to the strongest heating.
This is irrespective of whether baking is carried out with heat coming from the top or bottom or with hot air circulating throughout.
The technical problem of the invention is to specify a cake baking process in which only a very small number of auxiliary means are required in order to bake a large number of cakes which differ widely in shape and size, and in which heat is transferred to the cake mix uniformly or virtually uniformly.
Since all the baking frames are placed loosely on only one oven grating, the oven grating serves as base sheet for all the baking frames.
Furthermore, the baking frames are adjustable in size. This results in a further considerable saving in individual parts. For example, cakes with widely varying diameters, for example 20, 26, 28, 30 centimeters, can be baked using a circular baking frame. All intermediate sizes are also possible.
The size-adjustable rectangular baking frame can be used to bake, for example, different sizes of slab cakes without different baking tins being necessary for this purpose.
Since the mix is arranged directly on the oven grating, very good transfer of heat to the cake mix is achieved.
Furthermore, the baking frame may likewise be designed in the form of a grid, with the result that very good transfer of heat to the cake mix is achieved.
If the cake mix is of a somewhat runnier consistency, then baking foil may be provided between the oven grating and the baking frame. This baking foil only negligibly reduces the transfer of heat.
A further advantage of the process according to the invention is that greasing of the baking tins is dispensed with. The cake mix is placed directly on the oven grating or else directly on the baking foil. Greasing is not necessary in this case.
Greasing of the baking frame is likewise unnecessary. The cake can easily be released from the baking frame, after baking, using a knife.
The use of the oven grating with the baking frame has the further advantage that, while it is still in the baking frame, the cake can be placed on a cake stand, where it is covered, for example, with icing or cream. The baking frame serves as a cake ring here. Once the icing or the cream has become stiff, the baking frame may finally be removed. This dispenses with the separate provision of a cake ring, of which, furthermore, only circular ones are commercially available. It is not possible to obtain such cake rings for rectangular cakes or cakes of other basic shapes.
Use is advantageously made, as oven grating, of a metal sheet which has through-passages and on which the cake mix can be arranged. The heat which is necessary for baking can be channeled to the mix, by way of the oven grating, through the t
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Houtteman Scott W.
S & S Maschinenbau GmbH
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