Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Measuring – testing – or controlling by inanimate means – Preparing solid product in final form by heating
Patent
1993-07-20
1995-03-21
Yeung, George
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Measuring, testing, or controlling by inanimate means
Preparing solid product in final form by heating
426505, 426523, A21D 600
Patent
active
053993675
ABSTRACT:
A process and apparatus for cooking tortilla chips. Toast points on a baked tortilla chip are produced by a process whereby tortilla dough pieces cut to the shape of tortilla chips are placed on a stainless steel, open weave conveyor belt which passes through an electric oven whose temperature is controlled in the range of about 700 to 800 degrees Fahrenheit for about ten to twenty seconds, and thereafter baking the chips at a lower temperature for a longer period of time. By cutting the dough into chips prior to running them through the electric oven on an open weave conveyor belt, a random pattern of toast points is created. By using an electric oven, the temperature can be tightly controlled so as to equilibrate the moisture in the tortilla dough pieces as they are being toasted, thereby saving a moisture content adjusting step before or after the toasting oven, reducing the amount of equipment required to cook the tortilla chips and producing a tortilla chip having desirable taste and appearance characteristics. Thereafter, the toasted tortilla dough pieces are baked in a conventional oven at a lower temperature and longer period of time, thereby producing chips which not only appear and taste like they were toasted, but have a low fat content.
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RDO Specialty Foods Co.
Yeung George
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