Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1992-11-16
1994-05-03
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99353, 99355, 99357, 99407, A47J 3712
Patent
active
053077369
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for preparing, cooking, and dispensing a food product. A rehydration chamber in the apparatus combines a quantity of dehydrated food product and a quantity of heated rehydration liquid to produce a quantity of rehydrated food product that is sufficient to produce an individual portion of cooked food product. A compression station compresses the rehydrated food product to create a prepared mixture of homogenous consistency. An extrusion station extrudes the prepared mixture into a cooker containing a cooking medium. The cooker cooks the extruded prepared mixture to produce an individual portion of cooked food product which is then dispensed by a dispenser. The rehydration chamber, the compression station, the extrusion station, and the cooker are arranged so that the rehydration chamber can process a first individual portion of cooked food product while the compression station is simultaneously processing at least a second individual portion of cooked food product, the extrusion station is simultaneously processing at least a third individual portion of cooked food product, and the cooker is simultaneously processing at least a fourth individual portion of cooked food product.
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