Methods and equipment for making irregular-shaped egg products
AssigneeCargill, Incorporated
InventorsNoah Robert Klamm, Paraluman Guillermo
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Abstract
A method of producing individual cooked egg products including the steps of: providing a pan to a liquid egg station, wherein the pan comprises at least one pocket with a bottom wall from which a perimeter side wall extends generally upwardly and inwardly, and the bottom wall comprises a planar portion from which a depressed portion downwardly extends; depositing a volume of a liquid egg product into at least one of the pockets at the liquid egg station; cooking the deposited volume of liquid egg product with a combination of heat and moisture at a cooking station; and removing the cooked egg product from each of the pockets.
Claims17
A method of producing individual cooked egg products, comprising the steps of:
- providing a pan to a liquid egg station, wherein the pan comprises at least one pocket that comprises a bottom wall from which a perimeter side wall extends generally upwardly and inwardly, and wherein the bottom wall comprises a planar portion from which a depressed portion downwardly extends;
- depositing a volume of a liquid egg product into the at least one pocket at the liquid egg station;
- cooking the deposited volume of liquid egg product with a combination of heat and moisture at a cooking station;
- and
- removing the cooked egg product from the at least one pocket.
A method of producing individual cooked egg products, comprising the steps of:
- providing a pan to a liquid egg station, wherein the pan comprises at least one pocket that comprises:
- a top opening having an outer perimeter shape;
- a bottom wall that comprises a planar portion from which a depressed portion downwardly extends;
- and
- a side wall extending between the top opening and the bottom wall, wherein the side wall is contoured along its height to provide at least one area with a perimeter that is larger than the outer perimeter shape of the top opening;
- depositing a volume of a liquid egg product into the at least one pocket at the liquid egg station;
- cooking the deposited volume of liquid egg product with a combination of heat and moisture at a cooking station;
- and
- removing the cooked egg product from the at least one pocket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.