Convenience dinner container and method
OwnerThomas P. McGonigleinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for supplying, storing and cooking a dinner in a microwave oven including assembling the meal in upside-down fashion in a compartmentalized lid, equipped with vent holes sealed with adhesive tape to prevent escape of the food with a foil covering over the lid to protect the frozen meal during the storage which when the meal is ready to be cooked, the lid is inverted over a reusable microwavable dish with such that the food drops into the dish, the sealing tape is removed from the vents and the unit placed in a microwave oven.
Claims2
A method for providing, storing, and cooking a convenience meal in a either microwave oven or a convectional oven comprising:
- (a) assembling a meal for microwave or heat reconstitution in an upside down fashion in a lid having at least one compartment,
- (b) installing in the lid as least one vent hole in the compartment located generally under the meal,
- (c) covering each vent hole with an adhesive sealing means which prevents the meal from escape and contact with the elements,
- (d) covering and sealing each open compartment of the lid with a foil sealing means to protect the meal,
- (e) storing the lid with the meal sealed inside, under conditions to protect the freshness of the meal until use,
- (f) removing the foil to expose the meal,
- (g) inverting the lid over a dish of a size such that the lid interfits over the sides of the dish, the dish having a complimentary compartment for each compartment of the lid, wherein the dish is microwavable and of a construction and material suitable for reuse,
- (h) removing the adhesive sealing means to expose each vent hole,
- (i) causing the meal in the lid to drop into the dish, and
- (j) cooking the meal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.