Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Direct application of electrical or wave energy to food...
Patent
1994-10-11
1997-01-14
Kepplinger, Esther
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Direct application of electrical or wave energy to food...
426238, 426242, 426496, 426518, 426549, 219771, A23L 1025, A21D 800
Patent
active
055937136
ABSTRACT:
Cooking of dough-based food products such as corn tortillas is effected with a considerably reduced cooking time by applying to the uncooked tortilla very low and low frequency radio frequency waves simultaneously on both sides of the tortilla in order to quickly cook both surfaces of the tortilla. This cooking forms the capping layers that retain a high degree of moisture within the body of the tortilla without unduly drying it. The radio frequency waves are preferably applied by an antenna formed by two parallel arrays of electrodes, one on each side of the tortilla, the arrays of electrodes having alternate electrodes of opposite polarity to constitute dipoles which irradiate the radio frequency waves approximately parallelly to both sides of the tortilla.
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Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Kurz
De Dios Figueroa C. Juan
de la Luz-Martinez Jose
Gonzalez-Hernandez Jesus
Martinez-Bustos Fernando
Ruiz-Torres Maximiano
Cano Milton I.
Kepplinger Esther
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