Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Molding – casting – or shaping
Patent
1993-09-03
1995-10-17
Czaja, Donald E.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Molding, casting, or shaping
426496, 426516, 425394, A21C 1108
Patent
active
054589002
ABSTRACT:
Machines and methods are disclosed for making arepas from corn flour dough in a cavity situated between abutting, opposing forming members. When the forming members are closed, dough occupying the cavity is circular in the plane where said members abut, and is of progressively increasing thickness dimension toward its axis. The forming members are then moved apart from each other and the arepa preform is disassociated from the forming members and its entire outer surface, but not its interior, is cooked using primarily radiant and/or convective heat. In some embodiments, the dough is extruded directly into the cavity while the forming members are already abutting each other. In others, the dough is extruded, a preform plug is severed from the extrusion, the cavity portion of one of the forming members is pressed down against the preform plug while it sits on a distensible surface backed by a backing member having a circular central void. That surface distends into the void so that the distended surface describes the remainder of the cavity. The first forming member is then raised and the deformable surface contracts to a flat condition, so that the uncooked arepa sits on top of that surface for removal and cooking.
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Medellin Roberto C.
Montelongo Ramiro
Rubio Manuel J.
Barrera Roberto Gonzales
Cano Milton I.
Czaja Donald E.
Rhines William G.
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