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US 12,096,875 B2Granted
System and apparatus for providing cooked food
AssigneeThe Quaker Oats Company
InventorsVipin Arora, Rahul Sadashiv Kamble
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Abstract
A system for providing cooked food includes at least one container that stores an uncooked food product for dispensing of an aliquot of the uncooked food product; a source of milk; a source of steam; a mixing chamber configured to receive the milk and steam to increase the temperature of the milk and to dispense heated milk so that the heated milk contacts the dispensed aliquot of uncooked food product to cook the food product.
Claims17
A system for providing cooked food comprising:
- at least one container that stores solid food product;
- a mechanical conveyor for moving an aliquot of the solid food product from the at least one container to a chute for dispensing the aliquot of the solid food product;
- a source of milk;
- a source of steam separate from the source of milk;
- a mixing chamber having a first inlet, a second inlet separate from the first inlet, and a separate outlet, wherein each of the first inlet, second inlet, and outlet are in fluid communication with the mixing chamber, the mixing chamber being configured to receive the milk from the first inlet and steam from the second inlet, heat the milk, and dispense heated milk from the outlet;
- wherein the dispensed heated milk contacts the dispensed aliquot of the solid food product to form the cooked food.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.