Stackable container system for storing and reheating food slice
AssigneePie-Pod, LLC
InventorSeth Marquit
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Abstract
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for stackable food storage and reheating. The stackable food container can be three-sided, and/or triangular, and can include a lid with a viewing window, a thermally conductive tray, and optionally one or more stacking inserts therebetween. The thermally conductive tray can be configured to absorb large amounts of thermal energy during a pre-heating stage, and to then efficiently transfer much of that energy to a bottom or crust of the food item during a re-heating stage thereby enabling a Maillard effect not possible with existing food containers.
Claims17
A stackable triangular food container system, the stackable triangular food container system comprising:
- a triangular lid having three polymer sides and a transparent elastic polymer film stretched across an opening in a top of the triangular lid to provide visibility into the stackable triangular food container system;
- a first triangular stackable insert directly coupled to the triangular lid by way of a lip on the first triangular stackable insert engaging a channel on the triangular lid and directly coupled to a triangular thermally conductive tray by way of a lip on the triangular thermally conductive tray engaging a lip on the first triangular stackable insert, the first stackable insert having a floor arranged between sides of the first triangular stackable insert;
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- the triangular thermally conductive tray configured to be pre-heated without a food item and then heated in an oven or microwave with the food item resting thereupon to effect Maillard transformation of a bottom surface of the food item when reheated upon the triangular thermally conductive tray.
A stackable triangular food container system, the stackable triangular food container system comprising:
- a triangular lid having three polymer sides and a transparent elastic polymer film stretched across an opening in a top of the triangular lid;
- a first triangular stackable insert directly coupled to the triangular lid and directly coupled to a triangular thermally conductive tray and having a floor arranged between sides of the first triangular stackable insert;
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- a second triangular stackable insert directly coupled to the first triangular stackable insert and directly coupled to the triangular thermally conductive tray, wherein the second triangular stackable insert is directly coupled to the first triangular stackable insert by way of a lip on the second triangular stackable insert engaging a channel on the first triangular stackable insert;
- the triangular thermally conductive tray configured to be pre-heated without a food item and then heated in an oven or microwave with the food item resting thereupon to effect Maillard transformation of a bottom surface of the food item when reheated upon the triangular thermally conductive tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.