Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Treatment or preparation of farinaceous dough – batter – or...
Reexamination Certificate
2000-01-10
2001-12-11
Hendricks, Keith (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Treatment or preparation of farinaceous dough, batter, or...
C426S505000, C099S353000, C099S423000, C099S427000, C425S087000, C425S218000, C425S458000, C222S168000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06329007
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. The Field of the Invention
The present invention concerns a grill for baking flat bread and, in particular, to a means and method for making thin, round, flat bread of uniform thickness and without holes or voids.
2. The Prior Art
Bread can be said to be, and almost is, a universal food stuff with every culture having a style of bread with a flat, thin, round shape. This may be variously called, for example, a pancake, a tortilla, a crepe, or a dosa. In each case the thin, flat, round bread is used as a wrapper to enclose other food making up the meal. Because of this intended use, there has been the problem of making the bread, particularly the thinner fried varieties, with uniform thickness and without holes. The uniform thickness is necessary to make the bread easy to roll or fold and the need for an absence of holes is quite obvious. Sometimes the dough or batter is made fairly stiff and is hand patted into shape, i.e., tortillas. Sometimes the dough or batter is made fairly liquid and it is poured or dipped onto a hot surface without any assurance that the resulting bread will either be of uniform thickness and/or without holes.
The present invention overcomes all of the above discussed problems by providing a method and device for producing thin, flat, round bread of uniform thickness and without holes. The present invention enables making of such bread in a rapid and convenient manner by even the most unskilled of bakers.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present flat bread grill invention has a grill containing a heat source and a spreader for applying the dough or batter to the surface of the grill in such manner as to assure production of uniformly thin, flat, round bread. The grill has a housing enclosing a heat source, preferably a controllable electrical heating element, and is topped by a round, flat grill surface. Preferably the grill surface is coated with a non-stick substance, such as Teflon, and is provided with an annular channel or recess adjacent the periphery thereof The spreader is an integral member having an elongated pentagonal shape with a rounded, pointy, inner end, a pair of diverging side walls, a pair of substantially parallel side walls, and an arcuate outer wall. One of the diverging walls and the adjacent parallel wall forms a leading edge while the like opposite walls form a trailing edge. The inner end has an integral depending foot while the outer arcuate wall has both an upwardly directed handle and a depending arcuate foot which is readily received in the annular channel or recess of the grill. The overall length of the spreader is slightly greater than the radius of the grill surface. The leading edge walls have a lesser depth than trailing edge walls. The spreader is held spaced above the grill surface by both feet. Preferably the volume of the pentagonal spreader is substantially equal to that of a single piece of the thin, round, flat bread produced by the subject inventions After the spreader is filled with dough or batter, it is rotated, preferably in a clockwise manner (or in the direction of the leading edge) with the dough or batter flowing from under the trailing edge which screeds the dough or batter smoothly and uniformly on the grill surface. The leading edge clears the deposited dough of batter at the completion of the rotation of the spreader.
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Becker Drew
Egan Russell J.
Hendricks Keith
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