Method and Device for the Pasteurization and/or Sterilization of a Food
AssigneeBuhler Barth AG
InventorsPeter Braun, Marco Keller, Rainer Perren
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The method for pasteurisation and/or sterilisation of a food according to the invention comprises, in a first step, provision of a device (1) for the impingement of steam, particularly water vapour, on a food. The food is then impinged upon with steam for the pasteurisation and/or sterilisation of the food by means of the steam in order to achieve a reduction in the quantity of a microorganism present on and/or in the food, particularly a pathogenic microorganism. Before the food is impinged upon with steam, the temperature of the food is brought to a preheating temperature greater than or equal to the pasteurisation and/or sterilisation temperature.
Claims27
1-22. (canceled)
A method for the pasteurization and/or sterilization of a foodstuff comprising the following steps:
- providing an apparatus for the impingement of vapor on the foodstuff, the apparatus comprising in particular a vessel with an interior space for accommodating the foodstuff and with a device for charging the interior space with vapor,
- causing the foodstuff to be impinged on with vapor,
- pasteurizing and/or sterilizing the foodstuff by means of the vapor in order to achieve a reduction in the quantity of a microorganism present on and/or in the foodstuff, wherein
- the temperature of the foodstuff is adjusted to a preheating temperature, which is higher than or equal to the pasteurization and/or sterilization temperature, before the impingement with vapor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.