Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1995-06-07
1997-08-12
Alexander, Reginald
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99349, 99374, 99377, 99424, 99448, 100319, 100320, A47J 3706
Patent
active
056554346
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed toward an apparatus utilizing a plurality of stacked roll bonded heat transfer plates having a heat transfer fluid circulating therein for transferring heat to food articles for cooking or staging ensuring bacteriological safety in the fast food production of hamburgers and other protein or farinaceous food articles. The apparatus utilizes floating hinges to support the spaced apart heat transfer plates in alignment and provides a means to initially cook frozen food articles sealed in heat conducting containers, such as a flexible pouch to cook raw food articles or previously cooked food articles, and to stage same for prolonged time periods at optimum product quality at a selected low temperature, thereby assuring precision, time and temperature-related, pathogenic risk management and food safety for public consumption. The apparatus provides a means of holding the patties and/or other food articles encased in suitable plastic packages for prolonged time periods at an equilibrated, safe internal temperature range, selectable between 130.degree. and 185.degree. F., which temperature range is optional and maintained in order to guarantee bacteriological food safety by achieving 99,999% thermal lethality of trace pathogens potentially present in ground meat articles such as beef or chicken patties.
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Alexander Reginald
Carrithers David W.
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