Frozen Food Product
AssigneeLipton, division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsRoberto Nardi, Sandro Panaioli, Valerio Simeone
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Abstract
The present invention provides a process for the manufacture of frozen instant cooking pasta from elongated dried pasta products that substantially retains the pre-processing length of the dried pasta comprising the steps of: (i) dividing an elongated dried pasta products into one or more portions, each portion having a desired mass; (ii) loading each portion of pasta into one of a plurality of separate dosing devices; (iii) re-hydrating each portion of pasta within a dosing device; (iv) quenching the re-hydrated pasta resulting from step (iii); (v) freezing. Further embodiments are directed to the apparatus that is necessary for carrying out this process and the frozen product achieved.
Claims8
1-19. (canceled)
A frozen pasta nest obtainable by the steps of:
- (i) dividing an elongated dried pasta product into portions, each portion having a desired mass;
- (ii) loading a portion of pasta into one of a plurality of separate dosing devices;
- (iii) re-hydrating the portion of pasta within a dosing device;
- (iv) quenching the re-hydrated pasta resulting from step (iii);
- (v) and freezing the quenched, re-hydrated pasta
- wherein during step (iii) each portion of pasta is positioned vertically in a dosing device such that as re-hydration occurs the pasta softens and falls to the base of the device where it forms a nest, wherein the frozen pasta nest has a toroidal shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.