Container and system for cooking foods
OwnerWilliam A. Skaifeinventor
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Abstract
A microwavable cooking container assembly has a bottom wall and a top rim spaced apart by a sidewalls. The container also has a notch, a gate with a steam aperture and a projection for mating within the notch. A film cover is attached to the top rim over the gate and has a fill aperture in communication with the container. The gate is moveable between a blocking position and a fill position for passing cooking ingredients through the fill aperture past the gate into the container. In another embodiment, a lid mates with the top rim and has a handle for gripping and a sealing rib for mating with the ledge seat on the top rim. The lid has a steam aperture for controllably releasing stem to create a pressure cooking environment within the container for cooking food in a microwave.
Claims35
A microwavable cooking container assembly comprising:
- a container body having a bottom wall and a top rim spaced apart by a substantially upright planar wall connected at opposite ends to a substantially upright convex wall;
- a notch extending downward from the top rim toward the bottom wall parallel to the substantially upright planar wall;
- a gate with a substantially planar body defined by an outer perimeter and having a steam aperture in the substantially planar body and a projection extending away from the substantially planar body for inserting within the notch;
- a film cover attached to the top rim over the gate and having a fill aperture in communication with the container body;
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- the gate moveable between a blocking position in covering relation to the fill aperture and a fill position for passing cooking ingredients through the fill aperture past the gate into the container body.
A microwavable cooking container assembly comprising:
- a container body having a bottom wall and a top rim spaced apart by a substantially upright planar wall connected at opposite ends to a substantially upright convex wall;
- a notch extending downward from the top rim toward the bottom wall parallel to the substantially upright planar wall;
- a ledge seat along an inside perimeter of the top rim;
- a lid with a lid body defined by a planar outer perimeter for mating with the top rim, a handle for gripping formed between oppositely spaced recesses in the lid body, and a positing rib running adjacent along the outer perimeter shaped to mate with the ledge seat;
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- a steam aperture in the lid body for controllably releasing stem from the container body to thereby create a pressure cooking environment for cooking ingredients within the container body.
A microwavable cooking container assembly comprising:
- a base container body having two or more cavities to hold food to meet the individual dietary, nutritional and taste requirements for each person;
- a top container body having corresponding geometry to the base container body to individually seal each cavity from the other;
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- a steam aperture in the top container corresponding with each cavity to cook the food with steam in each cavity at a rate corresponding to each food type.
A method for cooking of one or more foods in a microwavable cooking container assembly within a microwave, the method comprising:
- taking the microwavable cooking container assembly having a container body with a bottom wall and a top rim spaced apart by sidewalls, a gate attached to the top rim and a film cover attached to the top rim over the gate and having a fill aperture in communication with the container body;
- flexing the gate open away from the film cover;
- inserting ingredients through the fill aperture past the gate into the container body;
- placing the container body with the microwave;
- heating ingredients within the container body;
- releasing steam from a steam aperture in the gate;
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- controlling the rate of cooking using the steam in the container body and energy from the microwave.
A method for microwave cooking one or more foods in a microwavable cooking container assembly within a microwave, the method comprising:
- taking the microwavable cooking container assembly having a container body with a bottom wall and a top rim spaced apart by sidewalls, and a lid with a lid body defined by a planar outer perimeter and having a handle and a steam aperture;
- inserting ingredients into the container body;
- sealing the lid to the container body by mating the planar outer perimeter on the top rim;
- placing the container body with the microwave;
- heating ingredients within the container body;
- releasing steam from the container body through the steam aperture in the lid;
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- controlling the rate of cooking using steam in the container body and energy from the microwave to thereby create a pressure cooking environment for cooking ingredients within the container body.
A method for sequenced microwave cooking of one or more foods separate from each other at the same time in the same container, the method comprising:
- providing two or more microwavable containers, wherein a second container nests inside a base container and the two are covered by a lid with a steam aperture to separately cook two or more foods having separate cooking times;
- filling the base container with a first food having a first cooking time;
- filling the second container with a second food having a second cooking time;
- cooking the first food in the base container with the lid in the microwave;
- nesting the second container in the base container when an elapsed time on the microwave equals the second cooking time;
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- lidding the second container to cover the base container to sequentially cook the first and second foods with steam.
A system for microwave cooking one or more foods separate from each other at the same time in the same container, the system comprising:
- one or more microwavable containers nested inside each other within a base container;
- a lid having a steam aperture and a handle for gripping, the lid adapted to sealingly engage and cover each of the microwavable containers and the base container whether nested together or used separately;
- a sleeve having an inside cover and an outside cover houses and keeps the microwavable containers together for resale and storage;
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- one or more recipe software printed on the inside cover of the sleeve for describing operation of the system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.