Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Packaged or wrapped product – Having consumer oriented diverse utility
Patent
1997-03-04
1999-05-11
Bhat, Nina
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Packaged or wrapped product
Having consumer oriented diverse utility
426393, 426401, 426405, 62 60, 62 69, 62337, 62455, 99455, 99470, 99517, A21D10/02
Patent
active
059026189
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for chilling hot-bagged food includes a refrigeration device providing chilled air and an enclosure for containing the chilled air. A fan blows the chilled air in a stream within the enclosure and an open-work support movably holds a bag of hot food within the enclosure and in the path of the stream of chilled air. Thus, movement of the bag of hot food both agitates food within the bag and exposes surfaces of the bag to the stream of chilled air to rapidly cool the hot-bagged food. A method of processing food includes packaging and sealing a quantity of cooked hot food into a plastic bag then placing the plastic bag and hot food in an open-work basket movably mounted on a support. The plastic bag and hot food on the support are placed in a refrigerated-air environment and cold air is blown over the bag of food while it is moved to both shift the position of the bag and of the food contained in the bag to expose the bag of food to the blowing cold air and to shift the food in the bag to cool the food. A food-immersed temperature sensor assembly may be used to monitor the food cooling process.
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