Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Products per se – or processes of preparing or treating... – Soup – sauce – gravy or base
Reexamination Certificate
2003-02-18
2004-07-27
Tran, Lien (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Products per se, or processes of preparing or treating...
Soup, sauce, gravy or base
C426S601000, C426S602000, C426S638000, C426S650000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06767574
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
Generally the invention deals with a complementary at least two component cooking system for skillet or oven use which employs a dry, particulate, seasoning mix, containing a buffer and a separate liquid or paste sauce mix.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Many products have been developed to assist in cooking meat or other protein. These include both dry mixes and liquid sauces.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,679,300 teaches a method and natural flavoring composition to impart deep-fried flavor without adding fat. The composition is used to coat a product to be cooked.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,963,376 teaches a sauce for coating foods to give them a brown color and crisp texture when used with a microwave oven.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,008,124 teaches a dry mix which can be applied to moistened meat pieces. The mix then liquefies to produce a thickened gravy or sauce on cooking.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,424,088 discloses a specially prepared combined starch-natural gum composition. This composition is used as a thickening agent.
The art has not addressed the problem of a combined dry seasoning mix/liquid sauce mix which are designed to be used together and to be complementary to each other. The art usually deals separately with either selected dry mixes or sauces having no functional connection between the seasoning mix and the sauce. This separate treatment limits the convenience of the product and limits the flavor nuances available.
It is accordingly an object of this invention to provide a combined complementary sauce and seasoning mix product. This has been accomplished with the result that this functionally related combination is very easy to use and produces excellent results and fresh taste on cook up of the end product.
Once the desirability of a two component sauce seasoning mix combination has been recognized, the next problem is how to manufacture it so that it is stable both physically and microbiologically and so that it provides the desired taste. Certain sauces must be liquid or fluid because of the delicacy of the flavors involved. Drying the flavor and seasoning components of the sauce significantly alters their flavor profile and reduces the perception of freshness. In addition, certain, sometimes irreversible, physical changes take place on drying.
Further, the sauce should contain a highly concentrated emulsion which must be easy to dilute on use. The emulsion, which can be a liquid or a paste, must be stable enough for dilution without breaking and further, the diluted emulsion itself must be stable enough to be heated after dilution. In addition, the emulsion must be sufficiently freeze-thaw and heat stable to allow shipment and storing in normal commercial channels.
The emulsion must also be microbiologically stable, which in turn requires a pH of 4.5 or less since the emulsion, to be fluid, will have a water activity of about 0.7 to 0.85. The pH adjustment for microbiological stability in turn could easily render many versions of the sauce too acidic for most tastes, especially dairy based sauces. Stability of the emulsion is also important in the stored product because if the emulsion breaks, localized pockets of high water activity may result, which in turn could result in microbiological instability.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It has now been found that a functionally interrelated combination of a dry seasoning mix containing a buffer and an acidified emulsified sauce mix with extremely high solids content and salt content can be prepared and used with the advantage of having good stability to dilution as well as to necessary freeze/thaw-heat cycles. To remedy the acid taste, a buffer is added to the seasoning mix to counteract the acidity of the sauce/diluted sauce emulsion. Further, the sauce mix is very microbiologically stable. It actually causes a 5 log decrease in organisms during a normal challenge test.
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Bauer Roland
Doan Stephanie
Gimelli Kenneth
Kuil Bert
Tray Birgitha
Lipton division of Conopco, Inc.
Squillante, Jr. Edward A.
Tran Lien
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