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AssigneeKraft Foods Group Brands LLC
InventorsTravis A. Larson, Steve Seokmin Kang, Katherine Anne Peterson
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Described herein are food items that are configured to facilitate cooking or heating in multifunction pressure cookers with increased efficiency. In some embodiments, a food item may be frozen, and may be a single, unitary, integral one-piece block or chunk that is heated by itself in the cooker. Also disclosed herein are processes associated with the above-described combination, such as methods of preparing, packaging, and heating of food products. Also disclosed are containers and molds that can be used to form frozen food products with a shape and structure corresponding to inner cavities of heating devices. In some cases, containers or molds can also serve as packaging for one or more of storage, shipping, retail display, sale and consumer handling of frozen food products.
A packaged frozen food product configured for cooperation with a particular multifunction pressure cooker having a receptacle that includes a cavity with a predetermined bottom surface area and a peripheral surface having a predetermined diameter, comprising:
A container comprising a cavity configured for use in molding a food item into a circular cylindrical shape during freezing so as to provide a frozen food item having a bottom surface area substantially equal to that of a cavity of a multifunction pressure cooker, and a diameter slightly less than or equal to that of the cavity.
A method of using a packaged frozen food product comprising a solid, one-piece unitary frozen food item having a predetermined diameter, a package containing the food item, and instructions for preparation, the method comprising:
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