Back to results
US 5,472,723 AGranted
Process for the production of chilled ready-to-eat pizzas
AssigneeBarilla G. e R. F.11i - Societa per Azioni
InventorsSergio Veronesi, Ernesto Buriani, Guido Calo
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A process for the production of ready-to-eat pizzas provides for them to be treated after baking by microwaves and hot air at around 100.degree. C. This treatment ensures that all ingredients of the pizzas are pasteurized and that superficial moisture is removed from each pizza.
Claims10
A process for the industrial production of chilled ready-to-eat pizzas comprising the steps:
- continuously preparing pizza bases from leavened dough of flour and water, incorporating yeast,
- disposing on each base a topping to form pizzas,
- baking the pizzas, thus prepared in an oven at 350.degree.-360.degree. C. for a period of 1-1.5 minutes,
- transporting said pizzas from said oven into pasteurizing area;
- pasteurizing the topping in a continuous process, by subjecting the pizzas simultaneously to microwaves and a flow of hot air at 90.degree.-100.degree. C.,
- chilling the pizzas to a temperature between 0.degree. C. and 8.degree. C. in a sterile environment and
- packaging the chilled pizzas while maintaining them at the above chilling temperature.
4 more elements
A process for production of a chilled ready-to-eat pizza, each formed of a base and a topping of one or more ingredients thereon, comprising the steps:
- a. preparing a pizza base from dough including flour, water and yeast,
- b. disposing on the base a topping, thus forming a pizza,
- c. baking said pizza in an oven at a temperature in the range of 350.degree.-600.degree. C. for a time period in the range of 1-1.5 minutes,
- d. transporting said pizza from said oven into a pasteurizing area,
- e. pasteurizing said topping of said pizza by subjecting it to microwaves and a flow of hot air at a temperature in the range of 90.degree.-100.degree. C. and
- f. chilling said pizza to a temperature in the range of 0.degree.-8.degree. C. while in a sterile environment.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.