Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Surface coating of a solid food with a liquid
Patent
1994-06-14
1995-09-26
Czaja, Donald E.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Surface coating of a solid food with a liquid
426 72, 426103, 426 96, 426455, 426474, 426476, 118 19, 118 24, 427422, A23G 326
Patent
active
054533830
ABSTRACT:
A sugar slurry spray discharge nozzle (10) for co-spraying steam into the sugar slurry spray. The nozzle (10) finds particular suitability for use in the applying of a sugar coating solution or slurry to a Ready-To-Eat breakfast cereal base in an enrober. By virtue of providing a steam assist to the spraying of the sticky sugar coating solution, desirable reductions in downtime for cleaning of the enrober are achieved. The improved nozzle includes a cylindrical steam chamber (14), an axially extending slurry supply tube (22) disposed therein having a discharge port (25) and orifice means for discharging steam into the slurry discharge such as opposed pair of arcuate steam discharge slits (66, 68) proximate the slurry tube discharge port (25). The steam discharge atomizes the slurry discharge spray and provides heat energy to the spray with the result that the slurry is applied to the cereal base with reduced sugar build-up on the enrober. In its method aspect, the present invention provides co-spraying methods for sugar coating food products, especially R-T-E cereals.
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Roufs John G.
Veenhuis Gary C.
Cano Milton I.
Czaja Donald E.
General Mills Inc.
Lillehaugen L. MeRoy
O'Toole John A.
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