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US 12,507,717 B2Granted
Cooking process
AssigneePastificio Rana S.P.A.
InventorGian Luca Rana
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Abstract
A cooking procedure to cook pasta; the procedure comprises a water feeding step. During which a given quantity of liquid water at a temperature of at least 50° C. is fed to a container; and a vapour feeding step, during which a given quantity of water vapour is fed to the container containing a given quantity of pasta for an amount of time ranging from 7 to 40 seconds; the vapour feeding step is at least partially simultaneous with or subsequent to the water feeding step.
Claims24
A process for cooking pasta with a moisture content of at least 20% by weight with respect to a weight of the pasta;
- the moisture content relates to the pasta before the process is implemented;
- the process comprises:
- a water feeding step, during which a given quantity of liquid water is fed to a container;
- and a vapour feeding step, during which a given quantity of water vapour is fed to the container containing a given quantity of pasta for an amount of time of at least 7 seconds, wherein the pasta attains a fully cooked state within less than one minute from a start of the water feeding step, and wherein, prior to the water feed step, the pasta has not been pre-cooked.
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