Microwave baking with metal pans

US4388335A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation · US

Inventors

• Robert F. Schiffmann · New York, US
• Alfred H. Mirman · Chesterfield, US
• Richard J. Grillo · Hawthorne, US
• Robert W. Batey · Port Chester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 1981
• Grant date: Jun 14, 1983
• Expiry date: Feb 12, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A21D8/06
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method of baking bread in metal pans using microwave energy is described. Overall baking time is reduced by a method of combining conventional and microwave baking. In addition, significant reduction in bake time associated with bread was obtained by employing significantly lower levels of microwave energy and metal pans in a simultaneous microwave and conventional oven heat bake process utilizing conventional bake pans. Reduced bakeout and more uniform baking is achieved if microwave energy is applied at 915 MHz and 2450 MHz simultaneously.