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Process for producing fried food

US4985266A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 30, 1989
Grant dateJan 15, 1991
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Expiry dateAug 30, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47J37/1219
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A process for producing a fried food, which comprises placing a starting material suitably applied with a necessary pretreatment into a fryer filled to an intermediate level with heated oil and from which air is evacuated, moving the material vertically to repeat the operation of dipping the material into the oil and withdrawing the material above the oil surface for several minutes, then allowing the material to rest in the oil for a while and finally draining off the oil by vibrating the material with small amplitudes above the oil. This process can be carried out by using a device comprising a fryer vessel, equipped with a sealing lid at the upper portion on one side, a vacuum generating means for producing a vacuum in the vessel, a pipe for feeding heated oil which feeds the heated oil from an oil heater into said fryer vessel, a return pipe which returns used oil from said fryer vessel through an oil filter to the oil heater, a level gauge for monitoring the oil level of fryer vessel, an air cylinder which drives a waggle frame housed within the the fryer vessel vertically to dip the frame into the oil or withdraw the frame above the oil surface and a starting material case ho…

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