Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With stirring
Patent
1997-01-07
1998-08-18
Alexander, Reginald L.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With stirring
99413, 99410, 126369, 426312, A47J 2704
Patent
active
057945241
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD AND BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a food processor comprising a mixing vessel and a drive mechanism for an agitator in the mixing vessel, the mixing vessel being heatable in its lower region.
There are food processors known which have a drive mechanism for an agitator in a mixing vessel. Food processors of this kind serve, for example, for the production of doughs or the like, for example for the production of farinaceous products. The ingredients introduced into the mixing vessel are mixed by means of the driven agitator. Depending on the construction of the agitator, the introduced ingredients may also be kneaded, for example into a dough or the like. It is further known, for example from DE-OS 3507276, to equip food processors of this kind with a heater. The heater acts preferably in the lower region of the mixing vessel, which is heatable in this way. Food processors constructed in this manner can be used, for example, for the production of soups, sauces or the like. During the heating phase, the soup or sauce located in the mixing vessel is now stirred, which leads to an optimum blending and to an improved flavouring of the food.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to improve a food processor of this type in a simple way.
As a result the arrangement of the present invention, there is provided a food processor which, apart from the functions mentioned, such as stirring and heating, further presents the possibility of a cooking of foodstuffs. This is achieved in that a top unit for the mixing vessel has a perforated base for the preparation by steaming of foodstuffs, the perforations being formed in a food material support of the top unit base and condensate/moisture forming being conducted back into the mixing vessel. By a heating of a stock located in the mixing vessel, there are released flavoured vapours. This effect is further intensified when the agitator in the mixing vessel is switched on. The flavoured vapours may, on account of the arrangement mentioned, pass through the perforations of the top unit base and after this, swirl around the foodstuff to be steamed, which is located in the top unit. The aforementioned foodstuff or the cooking material absorbs in this way flavours of the vapour. The condensate forming during the steaming in the top unit can be conducted, in turn, through the perforations provided in the top unit base, back into the mixing vessel. It is advantageous above all in this connection for the moisture forming during a steaming, in particular the emerging foodstuff moisture forming, to be conducted back likewise into the mixing vessel over the aforementioned route. The stock located in the mixing vessel is therefore enriched in turn with flavours of the cooking material. The switched-on agitator effects an optimum blending of the moisture or condensate conducted back. A food processor formed in this manner is especially advantageously to be used whenever, for example, sauces or the like are to be refined with spice flavours, without the sauce or the like entering directly into contact with the spices.
For this purpose, the spices may be located in the top unit, the flavours condensing out of the spices by virtue of the steaming. This condensate drips, as a consequence, through the perforations of the top unit base, back into the mixing vessel. The sauce there present is refined with the desired flavours. The constantly rotating agitator effects a uniform distribution of the flavours. In an advantageous development of the subject matter of the invention, it is provided that the top unit base has a central, unperforated region. Because of this arrangement, there is formed a surface which permits also, for example, fine-grained spices or the like to be introduced into the top unit. The openings of the top unit base are so dimensioned that usual foodstuff or large-surfaced spices may not fall through these openings into the mixing vessel, but are rather made so large that even viscous condensate or viscous moisture f
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Dorner Stefan
Kemker Uwe
Lapp Oliver
Alexander Reginald L.
Farber Martin A.
Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
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