Process for preparing frozen par-fried potatoes

US4551340A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• General Foods Limited · US

Inventors

• Nabil A. El-Hag · Peekskill, US
• Stuart A. Cochran · Tarrytown, US
• Kenneth R. Schwabe · Tuckahoe, US
• Louis Carricato · Yonkers, US
• Sudhakar P. Shanbhag · Bourbonnais, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 2, 1980
• Grant date: Nov 5, 1985
• Expiry date: Dec 2, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A23L19/18
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for simulating the taste and texture of deep fat fried potatoes has been developed. The process consists of having the potatoes washed, peeled, trimmed, sorted, cut, blanched, or otherwise processed in conventional manner, and thereafter starch coated, oil soaked, par-fried and frozen. This process produces an improved potato product that more closely approximates deep fat fried foods. Most preferably the potato comestible will be reheated on a heat transferring apparatus.