Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Packaged or wrapped product – Having consumer oriented diverse utility
Patent
1993-02-09
1994-08-30
Weinstein, Steven
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Packaged or wrapped product
Having consumer oriented diverse utility
426120, 426412, 426451, 426557, A23L 116, A23L 1162, B65D 8134
Patent
active
053426347
ABSTRACT:
Described herein are method and apparatus for producing instantly cookable pasta including various kinds of pasta and Chinese and Japanese noodles, and an encased instantly cookable pasta produced by such method and apparatus. According to the invention, part of raw dough of a starting mixture, which contains wheat flour as a major component, is subjected to preliminary steam-cooking, and then mixed with the remaining uncooked part of the starting mixture. The resulting mixture is then processed through shaping, steam-cooking and drying stages to obtain instantly cookable pasta, enshrouding the instantly cookable pasta product in a water-permeable casing before shipment. Due to suppression of thermal degeneration of gluten, the instantly cookable pasta possesses favorable resiliency and is free of the smell inherent to raw wheat flour and cohesion of individual pasta cords. In order to restore the cooked edible state, the encased pasta can be put in hot water together with the casing, permitting hot water to impregnate uniformly into the pasta. The water-permeable casing facilitates the handling of the pasta in cooking and improves its restorative quality to obtain cooked pasta of palatable touch and flavor.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2236641 (1941-04-01), Karmon
patent: 2969292 (1961-01-01), Heller
patent: 3012895 (1961-12-01), Stelnicki
patent: 3081174 (1963-03-01), Gay
patent: 3395025 (1968-07-01), Hermanson
patent: 3537862 (1970-11-01), Peters et al.
patent: 3563768 (1971-02-01), Melnick
patent: 3615712 (1971-10-01), Keller
patent: 3689291 (1972-09-01), Draper
patent: 3928045 (1975-12-01), Tsunoda et al.
patent: 3976795 (1976-08-01), Ando
patent: 4018355 (1977-04-01), Ando
patent: 4018904 (1977-04-01), Muraoka
patent: 4348421 (1982-09-01), Sakakaibara et al.
patent: 4368210 (1983-01-01), Murakami et al.
patent: 4514426 (1985-04-01), Jordan et al.
patent: 4737370 (1988-04-01), Huster et al.
patent: 4803088 (1989-02-01), Yamamoto et al.
Ethyl Corp. Publication: "Visqueen Film Products".
Food Engineering Jun. 1959 p. 27.
Food Engineering Sep. 1957 p. 83.
Fujihara Masayuki
Miura Tetsuo
Murata Susumu
Nakanishi Kenjiro
Sano Masako
Kanebo Ltd.
Weinstein Steven
LandOfFree
Encased instantly cookable pasta does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Encased instantly cookable pasta, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Encased instantly cookable pasta will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-28562