Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Heating above ambient temperature
Patent
1995-11-20
1998-02-03
Lacey, David L.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Heating above ambient temperature
426509, 426510, A23L 101
Patent
active
057141894
ABSTRACT:
The invention pertains to a novel cooking utensil for use in cooking food together with a conventional cooking vessel such as a covered skillet. The cooking utensil comprises a thin, substantially planar food-supporting cooking member having a bottom surface shaped substantially identically to a lower, inner surface of the conventional cooking vessel so that the food supporting member will substantially completely cover the lower, inner surface of the cooking vessel in flush contact therewith when the food supporting member is placed in the vessel, and handle means integrally connected to a central portion of an upper surface of the food supporting member for lifting and handling the food supporting member. The food supporting member preferably has a uniform thickness significantly smaller than the thickness of a bottom wall portion of the cooking vessel, and a continuous surface so that fluid cannot pass therethrough during a cooking operation. Through use of the cooking utensil, the inner surface of the skillet remains substantially free of food particles and residue during a cooking operation so that the skillet may be directly, serially used in plural cooking operations without having to clean the skillet after each cooking operation, and while maintaining the skillet in a heated condition during and between all of the cooking operations.
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Carrier Joseph P.
Lacey David L.
Sherrer Curtis E.
Weiner Irving M.
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