Abstract:
An oven appliance includes a housing defining a discharge vent, a cooking chamber positioned within the housing, an exhaust duct providing fluid communication between the cooking chamber and the discharge vent, an air handler operably coupled with the exhaust duct for urging a flow of heated air from the cooking chamber, through the exhaust duct, and out of the discharge vent, and a catalytic converter assembly. The catalytic converter assembly includes a catalytic element positioned within the exhaust duct for lowering volatile organic compounds from the flow of heated air and a catalyst heater positioned upstream of the catalytic element for selectively heating the flow of heated air.
Abstract:
A batter injector for dispensing a layer of batter rotatable about a pivot point includes a main body defining a batter reservoir, an input port defined by an opening the main body in communication with the batter reservoir to receive batter in to the batter reservoir, a plurality of openings on an injector end of the main body in communication with the batter reservoir, and one or more valves controlling the opening and closing of the openings. An injera maker includes a frame, a controller, a cooking module, a reservoir module and a batter injector module. The cooking module includes a heating element and a closeable lid. The reservoir module includes a main reservoir tank and a valve to selectively permit flow through a conduit. The batter injector module has a plurality of openings.
Abstract:
A portable baking oven has an upper portion and a lower portion that define a baking chamber are disclosed. A baking chamber opening may be defined entirely by the oven upper portion. The upper portion may pivot away from the lower portion to allow access to the interior of the oven for cleaning. The oven may include a gas-powered infrared bottom burner and a gas-powered curved back burner.
Abstract:
A system for producing a cooked food item or foodstuff includes a printing chamber having a mobile printhead for extruding a printing mass, and a cooking chamber having a device for cooking the printing mass. A mobile tray can be moved between printing chamber and cooking chamber by a movement mechanism. A control unit is configured to permit the mobile tray to be disposed below the printhead for generating a spatial configuration of the printing mass in the printing chamber, and to actuate the printhead for generating a spatial configuration of the printing mass on the tray. The control unit is configured to actuate the movement mechanism to transfer the mobile tray with the printing mass into the cooking chamber and to actuate the cooking device to produce a cooked food item by cooking the printing mass.
Abstract:
A food production system creating folded par-baked units (e.g. mini tacos) for frying, including a sheeter for continuously creating a succession of substantially flat raw dough units and an oven having a plurality of hanging conveyors (e.g. chains). The hanging conveyors are narrow so that the raw dough units raw fold down on either side thereof to form folded dough units. The oven includes a first plurality of cross-burners to pre-heat the hanging conveyor for transferring shape-setting heat directly from the hanging conveyor to the folded dough units. The oven further includes a second plurality of substantially longitudinal shape-setting burners that are substantially in parallel with and adjacent to the top dough carrying side of the hanging conveyor for providing further shape-setting heat to the folded dough units. The oven discharges par-baked units ready for frying.
Abstract:
A food dough baking device includes: a disk-shaped griddle disposed to be able to rotate about the center of a circle as a rotation center in a heated state; a dough dropper that drops different kinds of food doughs to positions spaced in the radial direction of the griddle, corresponding to the food doughs, respectively; and a dough spreader that thinly spreads, on the entire surface of the griddle, the food doughs dropped toward the griddle. In the food dough baking device, the different kinds of the food doughs are baked while being spread in a thin-disk shape on the rotating griddle by the dough spreader so that each food dough forms a layer concentrically with respect to the center of rotation of the griddle.
Abstract:
A scooped out bagel dough product, bagel mold halves, and an apparatus using the bagel mold halves for making a scooped out bagel product. The scooped out bagel product is a baked bagel product half having: a crunchy blistered outer shell with a substantially reduced amount of doughy inner chamber that provides its unique flavor. This scooped out bagel product utilizes a predesigned custom mold that creates stalactites, i.e., flavor spikes, and holes or flavor “pit” formations that each encapsulate the soft doughy inner contents within a boiled and baked blister shell and increases a surface area of dough on an inner surface thereof. The product is a “scooped out” half bagel crunchy on its outer surface but filled with the flavor spikes, and flavor pits in which substantially reduced amounts of dough are encased relative to a comparable sized whole bagel.
Abstract:
A die assembly (10) used with a tray (11) employed in a continuous confectionary stark moulding machine/process, in which a plurality of the trays (11) are used. The tray (11) is of a rectangular configuration and includes upwardly extending side walls (12) that surround a space (13) that receives starch, in powder form, typically the powder would be flour.
Abstract:
A production system for moisture and texture detection and control in tortilla and tortilla chip production includes a production line, including a cooker/grinder, a sheeter/cutter, an oven, an equalizer, a fryer, and a cooler/packaging machine; and a production control unit, including a processor, non-transitory memory, an input/output component, a moisture controller, a temperature controller, a belt speed controller, a masa moisture sensor, a chip moisture sensor, laser sensors for measuring surface texture of baked and fried chips, a laser controller, a texture classifier, a feedback controller. Also disclosed is a method for production control, including controlling moisture content, measuring masa moisture, controlling oven, measuring baked surfaces, measuring fried surfaces, classifying baked surfaces, classifying fried surfaces, optimizing oven temperature, optimizing oven belt speed, storing and characterizing historical records.
Abstract:
The present invention is a baking pan having a bottom connected to four side walls. One side wall is a semicircular side having a perimeter measuring about 180°. Another side wall is substantially straight and connected to the semicircular side. Another side wall is substantially straight side and connected to another end of the semicircular side. The fourth side wall is an arc side connecting the two substantially straight sides. One of the substantially straight sides is substantially equal in length to the radius of the arc side.