Apparatus for the continuous production of fried dough crusts

Apparatus for continuously producing fried dough crusts that includes means for retaining an elongated bath of oil, a pair of endless conveyors traversing a part of said bath beneath the surface of the oil in uniform, spaced, parallel relation to each other, the spacing between the conveyors being maintained within the range of 1/8" to 3/8" for the confinement of dough pieces therebetween, the path of traverse of said conveyors demarking the cooking zone within the bath, means for maintaining the oil in the cooking zone at temperatures of about 360.degree.-410.degree. F., means for continuing the confinement of the crusts beyond the bath to a delivery point, and means for rapidly cooling the crusts before reaching said delivery point, and in which one of the conveyors is above the other, the upper conveyor being of balanced-weave construction, the lower conveyor being of flat-flex construction, the designs of said conveyors being incapable of registering with one another.