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US 5,514,402 AGranted
Apparatus and method for making pizza
OwnerPreston N. Williamsinventor
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A secondary pan is positionable in a main pan in centered relationship to the main pan on top of pizza dough in the main pan to provide raised radial inner and outer peripheral dough rims of greater thickness than the central part of the pizza dough and radial inner and outer peripheral edges for decreasing the time required to bake the dough. After removing the secondary pan from the main pan, pizza topping is placed on the annular central portion of the dough or baked pizza crust and baked. Each of the pans has an inner and an outer frustoconical wall with the lower base edge of the respective wall being joined to the respective inner and outer base edge of the base of the respective pan. The minor base edges of the outer peripheral walls are joined to the respective base while the major base edges of the inner peripheral walls are joined to the respective base.
Apparatus for preparing pizzas, including baking pizza dough, comprising the combination of a main pan and a secondary pan seatable on pizza dough in the main pan, each of the pans including an annular base having an inner peripheral edge and an outer peripheral edge, an inner frustoconical wall having a major base lower edge joined to the inner peripheral edge of the respective annular base to extend thereabove and have an opening extending vertically therethrough, and an outer peripheral wall having a lower peripheral edge joined to the outer peripheral edge of the respective annular base to extend above the respective annular base, the diameter of the secondary pan major base edge being greater than the diameter of the major base edge of the main pan inner frustoconical wall to permit the main pan inner frustoconical wall to extend upwardly in the secondary wall while leaving an annular clearance space therebetween and the dimensions of the main pan outer peripheral wall being sufficiently greater than those of the secondary pan outer peripheral wall to leave a significant annular clearance space therebetween.
A method of making pizza comprising the steps of placing pizza dough in a main pan having an annular outer peripheral wall and an annular inner peripheral wall defining a hole extending through the pan;
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