Spatula for culinary use
AssigneeTechfood Snc Di Iori Angelo E Castagnetti Paola
InventorAngelo Iori
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Abstract
A spatula is disclosed that is used to implement a food preparation method having the object of forming a roll of ice-cream, in which a quantity of food product in liquid or creamy state, consisting of a basic preparation for ice-cream, is spread on a controlled cooling plane at a temperature of about −18° C., to form in a few seconds a layer of ice-cream, changed into solid or pasty state, which is subsequently scraped away by the spatula, the latter having an upper side from which a protrusion emerges that, during scraping, meets the scraped-away ice-cream and deflects the ice-cream, promoting the rolling up thereof.
Claims15
A food preparation method comprising the steps of:
- spreading a food product in liquid or creamy state on a cooling plane to form a layer of food product that changes to solid or pasty state through the effect of cooling;
- and
- subsequently scraping said cooling plane using a spatula to detach at least one portion of said layer, wherein said spatula includes at least three parts that can be separated from each other and that are a spatula body made of plastics for foodstuffs, an insert made of metal removably fixed to a lower side of said spatula body, and an element made of metal removably fixed to an upper side of said spatula body, a scraping edge of said spatula being arranged on said insert, said insert including an upper surface that is bounded at the front by said scraping edge and behind by a rear edge, said rear edge being contiguous to an upper surface of said upper side of said spatula body, said element including a protrusion that emerges from said upper surface of said upper side of said spatula body at a distance from said rear edge, a portion of said spatula body being interposed between said element and said insert, said element being connected to said insert by means of at least one stem inserted into a hole obtained in said portion of said spatula body;
- wherein, during said scraping step, said protrusion meets said detached layer portion and deflects the portion to promote rolling up thereof.
A food preparation method comprising the steps of:
- spreading a food product in liquid or creamy state on a plane to form a layer of food product that changes to solid or pasty state through cooling;
- scraping said cooling plane using a spatula to detach a portion of said layer, wherein said spatula includes:
- a spatula body made of plastics for foodstuffs, an insert removably affixed to a lower side of said spatula body by a fastener, and an element removably affixed to an upper side of said spatula body by said fastener;
- said insert having a scraping edge, said insert further including an upper surface bounded by said scraping edge and by a rear edge, said rear edge being contiguous to an upper surface of said upper side of said spatula body;
- said element including a linear protrusion forming an acute angle with said upper surface of said upper side of said spatula body, a portion of said spatula body being interposed between said element and said insert;
- wherein, during said scraping step, said protrusion meets said detached layer portion and deflects the portion to promote rolling up thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.