GB2024608A

GB2024608A - Cooking containers

Info

Publication number: GB2024608A
Application number: GB7828073A
Authority: GB
Original assignee: Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd
Current assignee: Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd
Priority date: 1978-06-27
Filing date: 1978-06-27
Publication date: 1980-01-16
Also published as: GB2024608B

Abstract

A handy container-pan used for instantly frizzlable dry foods 9, 10 consists of a pan 1 made of an aluminium foil sheet, having a scoop-type grip 2 formed integrally with the upper edge portion of the pan; a cardboard lid 4 to be put on the pan and grip, crossed lines (5, 6, 7, 8) being press-marked thereon for inflection; and a shrink- packaging polymer film 11 for steadfastly attaching the lid to the pan-and- grip. To frizzle a dry food mass which has been received in the pan, the polymer film and the lid are removed from the pan-and-grip. The lid is then folded to form a hinge-like protecting cover and is used as a shield around the hot grip. <IMAGE>

Description

SPECIFICATION Container pan This invention relates to a handy container-pan used for instantly frizzlable dry foods.

Recently, the so-called "instantly pan-cookable dry noodles food" has been put on the market. A mass of noodles with a bagged soop and other ingredients is packed in a container-pan. The container-pan consists of a handy pan made of an aluminium foil sheet, having a lug attached integrally thereto, a cardboard lid to be put on the pan, and a shrinkpackaging polymer film for steadfastly attaching the lid to the pan.

When the above-mentioned food is boiled, the shrink packaging polymer film and the cardboard lid are taken away from the handy pan, followed by dusting the dry noodles mass with the powdered soop sealed in a small bag. Then, about 500cc of cool or hot water is poured into the pan, followed by heating the pan. By giving a boil of about 3 minutes, an eatable noodles food can be easily obtained.

In this case, it is almost unnecessary to grasp the lug while boiling bacause there is almost no need of giving a stirring motion to the content of the pan.

On the other hand, it is certainly necessary to grasp the heated pan when instantly frizzlable dry foods are cooked to prepare a frizzled dish such as chow mein and pilaf. This is bacause these dishes cannot be prepared without a vigorous stirring of the mass in the pan. It is very dangerous, however, to grasp the pan heated to a high temperature with a bare hand.

An object of this invention is to provide a handy container-pan used for instantly frizzlable dry foods, which can be grasped without burning fingers or palm while the dry food is cooked.

This object can be attained according to this invention by preparing a container-pan which consists of a handy pan made of an aluminium foil sheet, having a scoop-type grip formed integrally with upper edge portion of the pan; a cardboard lid to be put on the pan-and-grip, which has crossed lines for inflection press-marked on the surface thereof; and a shrink packaging polymer film for steadfastly attaching the lid to the pan-and-grip.

This invention can be more fully understood from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompnaying drawings, in which: Figure lisa longitudinal sectional view of one embodiment of container-pan according to this invention; Figure 2 is a perspective view of the pan-and-grip of the container-pan shown in Figure 1, removing the lid; Figure 3 is a perspective view of a lid to be attached to the container-pan shown in Figure 2; Figures 4A to 4C are explanatory perspective views showing the folding order of the lid of Figure 3; and Figure 5 is an explanatory perspective view showing a mode of using the folded lid.

An embodiment of this invention will be explained in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

A handy container-pan 1 shown in Figures 1 and 2 is made of an aluminium foil sheet by pressmolding.

The container-pan 1 has a scoop-type grip 2 which is formed integrally with upper edge portion of the pan 1. Further, a wall step 3 is formed along the whole inner side of upper periphery of the container-pan 1 including the grip2.

As illustrated in Figure 3, a cardboard lid 4 has the shape of a long egg as the wall step 3. It has crossed lines 5 and 6 press-marked on its surface. Along these crossed lines the lid 4 is to be folded. It is preferable that further two free inflection chord-like lines 7 and 8 are press-marked on the half-round surface of the lid 4 in slantwise directions with respect to the crossed lines 5 and 6.

A mass 9 of instantly frizzlable dry food, a small bag containing powdered soop and other ingredients 10 are put into the container-pan 1. Then the lid 4 is put on the wall step 3. Thereafter the conainer-pan 1 with the grip 2 and the lid 4 are wrapped up by a shrink-packaging polymer film 11 so t1at the lid 4 is steadfastly attached to the container-pan 1. Thus, a commercially available instantly frizzlable food can be obtained.

When the abovementioned instantly frizzlable dry food is used for eating, the lid 4 is removed from the container-pan 1 having a grip 2 after taking the covered polymer film 11 away. The mass of frizzlable food is dusted with the powdered soop together with a small-amount of water and oily substance in the open container-pan 1. Then the pan is heated, while stirring vigorously the content thereof by one hand using a fork or chopsticks.

During this operation, the pan should be kept in a fixed state on a heating appliance. This keeping can be performed by grasping the grip 2 of the pan 1 with another hand. However, the grip 2 is very hot, and it is very dangerous to touch the grip with a bare hand. In order to avert this danger, the lid 4 removed frori the container-pan 1 can be used effectively so that the lid 4 forms a protecting cover of the hot grip 2.

Tne lid 4 is folded first along the widthwise inflection line 6 as shown in Figure 4A until it is bent doL ble as shown in Figure 4B. Then the duplicated lid ; is again folded along the lengthwise inflection line 5 to obtain a hinge-like shape as shown in Figure 4C. Further, it is desired that two arc parts 12 of the lid 4 be folded along the chord-like inflection lines 7 anc 8 to form two small wings which are attached to the lid 4 now in the form of a hinge.

As shown in Figure 5, the lid 4 in the form of a hinge is held between the thumb and the foreginger, thereby to grasp the grip 2 now very hot. Thus the grip 2 is held by hand indirectly by means of the protecting cover, i.e. the folded lid 4. The folded lid 4 insulates the heat from the hand, and the food in the container-pan 1 can therefore be cooked easily without making the cook feel any danger or causing him any trouble.

Claims

1. A handy container-pan for instantly frizzlable dry foods which consists of a handy pan made of an aluminium foil sheet, having a scoop-type grip integrally formed with an upper edge of the pan; a cardboard lid to be put on the pan-and-grip, which has crossed lines for inflection press-marked on the surface thereof; and a shrink-packaging polymer film for steadyfastly attaching the lid to the pan-andgrip.

2. The handy container-pan of claim 1, wherein a wall step is provided on the whole inner, upper periphery of the pan-and-grip and is adapted to receive the lid.

3. The handycontainerpan of claim 1,wherein the cardboard lid further has two free chord-like lines for inflection press-marked on the half-round surface of the lid in slantwise directions with respect to the crossed lines.

4. A handy container-pan for instantly frizzlable dry foods, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and as illustrated in the drawings filed with the specification.