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US 5,290,575 AGranted
Apparatus and method for baking bread
AssigneeRheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorYasuo Torikata
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Abstract
A baking apparatus and a method for quickly providing freshly baked bread by reducing time required for baking. In bread-making operations, reducing baking time by using a dough-surface heating unit together with an dough-interior heating unit and then subjecting the baked bread to reduced pressure for lowering moisture content at the dough interior.
Claims25
A baking apparatus for baking foods, comprising:
- a casing defining therein a baking chamber where a dough of the food is placed;
- a dough-surface heating means connected to the baking chamber for heating the dough from the exterior thereof and providing baking color to the surface thereof;
- a dough-interior heating means connected to the baking chamber for heating the dough from the interior thereof;
- a decompressor connected to the baking chamber for reducing a pressure within the baking chamber and subsequently causing evaporation of moisture from the dough;
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- control means connected to the dough-surface heating means, the dough-interior heating means and the decompressor for controlling operations thereof.
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A method of baking food comprising the steps of:
- placing a dough of the food in a baking chamber;
- heating an outer surface of the dough by a dough-surface heating means for providing the dough with baking color at the surface thereof, and heating an interior of the dough by microwaves for internally heating the dough and for removing a moisture content therefrom;
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- subjecting the dough to a reduced pressure environment in the baking chamber for facilitating reduction of the moisture content within the dough.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.