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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5398668 | Deep frying apparatus A high efficient gas fired frying apparatus for deep frying food is disclosed. The gas fired frying apparatus is comprised of a supply system for air and fuel gas, a compression system, a burner system, a combustion chamber, a heat exchanger and an exhaus... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5398597 | Electronic control system for cooking system The present invention is directed to a computerized control system for use with a cooking system, such as a deep fat fryer. The control system has a plurality of separately accessible control levels. The control system has a control pad comprising a plura... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5361682 | Apparatus for rapidly cooking alimentary pastas Process for fast cooking filamentary alimentary pastas and the like, consisting in feeding high-temperature, pressurized water to a pre-cooking chamber thermostatted by means of the same high-temperature water, feeding to the chamber, and by means of a me... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5361683 | Apparatus for batch cooking and packing fruit and vegetable pieces An apparatus and method are disclosed for a batch cooking and packing process for pieces of a food product such as fruits and vegetables. The process includes collecting a predetermined quantity of the uncooked food product, depositing that quantity by gr... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5357849 | Air fryer An air fryer includes a base, a seat attached to the base, a post having a lower portion slidably received in the seat, an arm pivotally coupled to the upper portion of the post, and a cap secured to the arm for enclosing the base. The post is adjustable ... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5355776 | Deep fat fryer An improved deep fat fryer having an open top vessel with a bottom formed of intersecting inwardly and downwardly inclined walls forming a V-shaped trough bottom for the vessel, first and second elongated heaters affixed to the vessel flat wall portions a... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5351605 | Automatic noodle cooker An automatic noodle cooker which continuously and automatically supplies hot water while cooking long thin ingredients such as spaghetti. The noodle cooker comprises a hot-water boiler which is divided into several water storage spaces, for example four, ... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5352866 | Fryer temperature control system An oil fryer control system simultaneously controlling oil temperature and cooking time. A proportional, integral and derivative temperature control is used to maintain the oil temperature below and above a predetermined set point temperature. In addition... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5341728 | Alarm device for telling end-of-cooking timing The present invention provides an improved alarm device which automatically starts accumulation of a heating amount when food items are placed into a cooking liquid and outputs an end-of-cooking signal when the accumulated heating amount reaches a predete... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5329919 | Expansible cyclone stove An expansible cyclone stove includes an expansible mount fastened to a stove body thereof to hold a lid for permitting the lid to be adjusted upwards from the stove body to increase the holding space for holding a cooking container inside the stove body. ... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5331575 | Shortening management system Computer controlled cooking apparatus for extending the life of shortening utilizing a host computer to lower the average temperature to which the shortening is subjected, a cooking computer within each cooking apparatus to determine when a filter operati... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5315921 | Method and apparatus for dehydrating waste food material A method and apparatus for dehydrating waste food material. The food material is initially ground to a relatively small particle size and transferred to a porous container or basket in a cooking vessel. The vessel contains a quantity of oil, preferably wa... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5313876 | Spaghetti cooking system A pasta cooking system including an automatic control which permits a cooking vat containing water to be automatically filled to a predetermined level in response to turning the system on, maintained at a constant level by the addition of water during rep... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5307736 | Food cooking An apparatus for preparing, cooking, and dispensing a food product. A rehydration chamber in the apparatus combines a quantity of dehydrated food product and a quantity of heated rehydration liquid to produce a quantity of rehydrated food product that is ... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5301601 | Storage and metering apparatus for popcorn popping oil A storage and dispensing means for popcorn popping oil. Popcorn popping oil is provided in a plastic bag contained within a rectangular box. The plastic bag is provided with a dispensing arrangement having a quick couple connection provided thereon. The d... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5301604 | Reduced-pressure fryer machine A reduced-pressure fryer machine adapted to fry a food material in a food container case by immersing same in heated oil in a reduced-pressure frying vessel, the food container case being constituted by an open-topped container body substantially unperfor... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5297474 | Oil-overflow alarming system in frying apparatus The present invention provides an oil overflow alarming system incorporated in a fryer apparatus. When the fryer apparatus includes a first frypot and a second frypot, a control unit of the oil overflow alarming system detects whether at least one of a se... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5289760 | Combination food processor and fryer A food fryer and processor for solid food, such as potatoes, and having a rotatable blade and a rotatable paddle for cutting the food product into segments and ejecting the segments into an adjacent perforated basket within a receptacle having hot oil the... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5289759 | Forced steam bulk food cooker/blancher The preferred embodiment described in this application is a forced-steam cooker/blancher (100) for cooking or blanching a depth of bulk food particles by supporting the food particles on an extended perforated particle support surface (122) and by forcing... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5280748 | Cook/chill tank An apparatus for uniformly cooking foods which rapidly cools the cooked foods to reduce spoilage. Food packages are placed on trays and the trays are inserted in a transportable rack. The rack is loaded into a cooking tank. A pump continuously circulates ... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5279212 | Apparatus for the steam-cooking of foodstuffs A device for steam cooking foodstuffs having a steam producer with an outlet to provide steam to a sealed vessel containing foodstuffs and provided with an apparatus to control the pressure in the vessel. The pressure in the vessel is controlled by conden... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5272963 | Arrangement for measuring moisture in ovens, in particular food cooking ovens An arrangement measures humidity in ovens, in particular fan-assisted food-cooking ovens which have a cooking cavity (8) and a separate cavity (10) that houses a cooling fan and is separated from the first cavity by a partition wall (9). The arrangement i... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5261322 | Fryer apparatus in commercial application The present invention provides an improved fryer apparatus including a small size pulse combustor and an additional labor-saved function such as a filtering system or a lift system. The pulse combustor of the invention does not include a check valve or fl... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5259302 | Automatic deep fry apparatus A deep fry apparatus for automatically and sequentially deep frying food articles below the surface of a hot fluid and at different depths or multi-levels in the fluid. An automatic feeder mechanism for feeding food articles to the deep fry apparatus is a... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5253567 | Thermal fluid heat exchanger for deep fat fryer The invention relates to a thermal fluid fryer which essentially contains an oil-filled cooking channel disposed within a fryer tank support frame, in which the product to be fried is conveyed through the channel on a continuous food conveyor belt. The oi... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5253566 | Infra-red deep fat fryer A deep fat fryer is described which is heated by burner tubes extending through the central portion thereof and by burners therein which are metal mesh. The burners support combustion only on the surface so that the primary heat source is infra-red energy... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5247874 | High-volume cooking A gas-fired, double-sided griddle apparatus for high-volume commercial cooking comprises double-sided griddles, each having a lower platen having a horizontal lower cooking surface and an upper platen having an upper cooking surface; a positioning mechani... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5247876 | Deep fryer and filtration system A deep oil fryer and filtration system is disclosed wherein the filtration system (B) is disposed within a cabinet (16) of a deep oil fryer (A) having a plurality of vats (10, 12, and 14). Filtration system (B) includes a drawer having a reservoir (20) an... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5243898 | Pressurized fryer device A pressurized fryer device adapted to continuously carry out the steps of feeding oil of a predetermined temperature from an oil heater into a pressurized fryer chamber, placing a material to be treated into the oil, frying the material under pressure for... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5245159 | Transparent housing for an electric heat convection stove An electric heat convection stove housing including a base, a stove body secured to said base at the top with a protective ring. A top cover is hingedly mounted to said protective ring for access to the interior of the stove body. The body includes a plur... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5240725 | Heating power control method and cooking apparatus A method of cooking material to be fried by heating a cooking vessel and a cooking apparatus, wherein detection is made of a temperature of the cooking vessel and also of a temperature increase characteristic of the cooking vessel with a passage of time s... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5235150 | Open deck removable cover microwave oven A microwave heating appliance 10 has a base 12 mounted in an opening 18 formed in a countertop 16. Base 12 includes a mount, such as flange 20, which supports the base on the countertop. A removable cover 14 sits on the base 12 above countertop 16. The co... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5229563 | Pressure cooker A pressure cooker and a process for making the same, wherein the pressure cooker includes a pressure container for accommodating food to be cooked, a lid for covering the container in an airtight manner, a pressure control device for adjusting the interna... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5220864 | Noodle cooker The invention realizes pulse combustion with a great turn down ratio, which is applicable to various controls and regulations in a noodle cooker. The noodle cooker of the invention heats water in a pot using a pulse combustor, which does not have a check ... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5214999 | Zig-zag path processing facilities A processing facility, for subjecting products to process conditions for lengths of time and having a processing chamber equipped for establishing a predetermined condition within and throughout the chamber, a pair of continuous flexible conveyor elements... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5215001 | Fast cook pasta machine and pasta combination A machine to fast cook individual servings of pasta and pasta for use in such machine together in combination, comprises a pressurized boiler to heat water to a temperature of about 155 degrees Celsius under pressure of about 7 atmospheres or about 105 ps... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5209941 | Process and device for preparing meals Frozen meals are placed in a hermetically sealable cooking space (2) in which explosion-like puffs of steam are produced. Before the puffs of steam are produced, the air present in the cooking space can be heated. The puffs of steam are produced by evapor... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5205206 | Food production apparatus This invention relates to a food production apparatus which is preferably used in the preparation of foods such as fried potatoes. In the invention, powder obtained by pulverizing and drying potatoes or the like is provided with water and stirred, and the... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5197376 | Apparatus for dispensing a cooked food product An apparatus that dispenses a cooked food product measures out a predetermined quantity of dehydrated food material for a cooking portion, quickly adds liquid to the material to produce a rehydrated food material of uniform consistency, and simultaneously... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5193440 | Process and equipment for preparation and cooking of edible materials Processes and equipment for preparation and cooking of edible materials, particularly for the automatic slicing and deep frying of vegetables, especially potatoes, to form crisps. The procedure comprises the steps of forming unwashed and undried slices of... | 03/16/1993 |
