JP2008011842A - Method for producing pre-cooked frozen food and pre-cooked frozen food - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a pre-cooked frozen food by using a container for microwave oven heating, by which efficient production line can be achieved and production cost becomes lower because of shorter time for production and to provide the pre-cooked frozen food by using the method. <P>SOLUTION: The present invention provides a method for producing a pre-cooked frozen food in which noodles and soup (and as necessary ingredients) are separately frozen and the frozen noodles and soup (and as necessary ingredients) are put into a container for microwave oven heating in an arbitrary order and also provides the pre-cooked frozen food. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for producing cooked frozen food and noodles such as udon and ramen and a cooked soup, and a cooked frozen food, in particular, a container for heating a microwave oven is used in each container. The present invention relates to a method for producing cooked frozen food and cooked frozen food in which separately frozen noodles and soup are stored.

  In recent years, cooked frozen foods that can be eaten only by heating without cooking full-fledged ingredients such as preparing udon, soba, ramen, soup spaghetti, etc. ing. The mainstream of these products are noodles such as udon and ramen, which are frozen with `` cooked soup, '' which can be heated by using a gas stove or electromagnetic cooker, or microwaved using a microwave oven. It can be heated and eaten by the action of. For example, in the case where frozen food is stored in a container such as aluminum, the packaging bag is broken and the container is heated on a gas stove. In the case of using a microwave oven, the frozen bag is taken out by breaking the packaging bag, transferred to a container for the microwave oven owned by the user, and heated in the microwave oven.

The cooked frozen food means that at least the soup is cooked. In addition, there are cases of only soup and soup with ingredients. The former is so-called kake soba and unodon (kake udon). In the latter case, raw or semi-finished ingredients may be used, and it is prepared so that it can be eaten by putting it on a gas stove or electromagnetic cooker. For noodles, raw noodles may be used depending on the heating time at the time of thawing, or heated (cooked) noodles may be used.
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  As described above, when the frozen food is contained in a container such as aluminum, it can be heated by being directly put on a gas stove. In this case, since any noodles and ingredients will be exposed to the fire while still in contact with the bottom of the container, there is a direction that makes this unfavorable. Some of them have noodles and ingredients placed on top of them. However, it took a long time to put the soup in a container and freeze it, which was a factor in increasing costs.

  Also, microwave heating is troublesome because it must be transferred to a user-owned container. Therefore, the microwave oven container and the frozen food are integrated (the frozen food is stored in the microwave oven container), and it is sufficient if there is something that can be cooked in the microwave oven together with this container. There has never been such a frozen food. However, even if this is possible, it takes a lot of time to freeze the cooked food in a microwave oven container, and there is an inefficiency problem on the production line, which leads to high costs. Furthermore, there is a problem that the soup frozen at the bottom of the container is difficult to thaw and heat cooking takes time.

  The present invention solves the problems as described above, can realize an efficient production line, does not take a long time for production, and therefore lowers the production cost. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for producing a used cooked frozen food and a cooked frozen food with a microwave heating container.

  The above-mentioned problem is that the frozen noodles and soup are individually frozen, and the frozen noodles and soup are stored in an arbitrary order in a microwave heating container. This is achieved by a manufacturing method. The arbitrary order mentioned here is the order of storing in order from the bottom of the container to noodles, soup, or soup, noodles. As a result, cooked frozen food is obtained in which noodles and soups separately frozen are stored in a microwave heating container.

  Particularly, in the invention of claim 2, noodles and soup, which are individually frozen, are stored in the order of noodles and soup from the bottom of the container. That is, the frozen noodles are placed in a microwave heating container, and then the frozen soup is placed on the noodles. As a result, the frozen noodles are stored in a microwave heating container, and a cooked frozen food is obtained in which the frozen soup is stored on the noodles.

  Since the cooked frozen food can be heated in the microwave together with the container, there is no difficulty or annoyance, and anyone can easily use it. The advantage is that thawing and heating can be done more efficiently even if they are in a container because the frozen soup is under or above the frozen noodles. There is. If the soup is on top of the frozen noodles, the soup will be melted down and immersed in the noodles.

  In addition, the above-mentioned problem is that noodles, utensils and soups are separately frozen separately for noodles and soups that use utensils. This is achieved by providing a method for producing a cooked frozen food characterized by being stored in an arbitrary order. The arbitrary order mentioned here is the order of the noodles, the ingredients, the soup, or the way of storing so as to become the ingredients, the noodles, the soup by switching the bottom two in order from the bottom of the container. As a result, cooked frozen food is obtained in which noodles, utensils, and soup, which are individually frozen, are stored in a microwave heating container.

  As described above, in the present invention, noodles and soup, or noodles, utensils, and soup are separately frozen, but in conventional products that do not do this, all are mixed and stored in a container and frozen. Therefore, according to an experiment on our side, it took 9 hours to complete the refrigeration. However, according to the present invention, there is an excellent effect that the refrigeration operation is completed in one hour.

  Regarding the work of putting these individually frozen items in a microwave heating container, it is easy even by manual work, but if it is automated as follows, it can be provided at a lower cost by omitting human labor. It becomes like this. That is, the container for heating the microwave oven is transferred by a conveyor, and the individually frozen ones are placed in the container according to the order and packaged.

  In this way, workability is really good, and frozen noodles and soups, or frozen noodles, utensils and soups can be stocked and placed individually, making production planning and shipping more flexible. The effect is that you can make a plan. Therefore, cost management is further facilitated.

  Next, regarding the production of the cooked frozen food of the present invention, the soup may be subdivided and frozen. This may be divided into small portions prior to freezing or divided into small portions after freezing. In this way, it is possible to obtain a cooked frozen food that is divided into a plurality of pieces and stored in a microwave heating container, particularly on a soup that is individually frozen.

  By subdividing in this way, thawing heating can be performed efficiently. Such subdivision can also be performed with noodles. Or what has a tool can be implemented about this tool.

  The frozen soup is divided into small portions, each of which is provided with a groove, and the two frozen soups are stacked so that the groove sides are aligned with each other. A cooked frozen food in which the frozen noodles are stored can be provided.

  Since the frozen soup is divided into two parts, upper and lower, the efficiency of thawing heating is good. In addition, since the frozen noodles are contained in the upper and lower frozen soups, so-called frozen baking of the noodles is reduced.

  Next, regarding the production of cooked frozen food according to the present invention, in the individual freezing, the thickness can be reduced by roughly matching the shape of the microwave heating container. . This can be applied to each of the manufacturing methods of claims 1 to 5 described above.

  The reason why the area of the container is roughly adjusted to the shape of the container, that is, the area closer to the wall surface of the container, for example, is the same amount of soup. This is because it is possible to perform thaw heating. Moreover, since these frozen things do not move or collide with each other in the container, there is a new advantage that the corners are less likely to be broken and broken in the container. In this way, the individually frozen products are roughly matched to the shape of the microwave heating container, whereby a cooked frozen food having a thin thickness is obtained.

  Next, regarding the production of the cooked frozen food according to the present invention, the frozen soup can be crushed or used. It becomes a form like so-called crushed ice or shaved ice.

  Pour the crushed ice-like or shaved ice-like soup from the one that has been frozen and placed in the microwave heating container. Obtain cooked frozen food covered with soup. Such a manufacturing method can also be applied to a manufacturing line using the above-described conveyor. It can be said that the crushed frozen soup or the shaved frozen soup is more easily thawed for microwave heating.

  In addition, such a crush ice-like or shaved ice-like soup is divided into two, and a portion of this soup is poured into a microwave heating container first, and then frozen noodles are placed on top of this soup. By pouring the remaining soup over the noodles, the noodles can be placed in the container so that the noodles are covered with the soup. In this manner, a cooked frozen food is obtained in which the frozen noodles are covered with the crushed or shaved soup in the container.

  This manufacturing method can also be applied to a manufacturing line using the above-described conveyor. In addition, since the frozen noodles are stored in the crushed or shaved soup, so-called frozen baking of the noodles may be reduced.

  The present invention is dedicated to a microwave oven that is thawed and heated using a container for heating a microwave oven. The noodle and the soup or the noodle and the utensil and the soup are individually frozen, and the microwave oven is heated. It is intended to be stored in a container. As a result, an efficient production line can be realized, and it takes less time to produce frozen foods and succeeds in reducing production costs.

  Note that when the user uses the container, it is only necessary to thaw and heat the container together in a microwave oven, and there is nothing difficult or troublesome, and anyone can use it easily.

  Hereinafter, six embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments.

First Embodiment FIGS. 1 to 3 show a method for producing cooked frozen food and a cooked frozen food according to a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a manufacturing process of cooked frozen food, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing this manufacturing process, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing this manufacturing process. This is related to so-called kake udon, soup is boiled but simmered, and the soup stock and boiled noodles are individually frozen and stored in a freezer as frozen soup 2 and frozen noodles 1.

  The cooking container 4 used in this embodiment includes an inner container 40 made of polypropylene, a lid 43, and an outer container 42 made of styrene foam covering the outside of the inner container 40. Further, the inner container 40 has a raised bottom portion 41 whose bottom center projects from the inner side of the container. The lid portion 43 is provided with a steam vent hole 44 that can be freely opened and closed. The cooking container 4 is a cooking container that can be hung in a microwave oven at home and is a processing container used in a factory, and can be shipped as it is.

  The frozen noodles 1 are stored in the cooking container 4 as shown in FIG. The frozen noodle 1 is placed on the raised bottom 41 and a space S is formed between the frozen noodle 1 and the bottom of the inner container 40. Next, when the frozen soup 2 is placed on the frozen noodle 1 as shown in FIG. 1 (b) and covered with the lid portion 43, the cooked frozen food 5 of this embodiment is obtained. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing this manufacturing process. The noodle freezing process and the soup freezing process are separately performed in advance, and the frozen noodles are placed in a container and then frozen. The soup lump is placed so that the lid portion 43 of the container is covered. Although not shown in the drawings, the periphery of the frozen food 5 thus obtained is further wrapped with shrink and shipped frozen.

  Although this series of steps can be performed manually, it is possible to perform the above steps by mechanical flow using a conveyor 6 as shown in FIG. That is, an empty cooking container 4 is supplied onto the conveyor 6, and the frozen noodles 1 and the frozen soup 2 are taken out of the freezer and placed in a standby state. First, the frozen noodles 1 are dropped into the cooking container 4 at a predetermined position. Then, the cooking container 4 is fed first, and then the frozen soup 2 is dropped onto the cooking container 4 at a predetermined position, and the cooking container 4 is covered with a lid at a predetermined position in the next stage (not shown).

  The frozen noodle 1 and the frozen soup 2 are formed to be as thin as possible in accordance with the planar shape of the inner container 40 at a position (see FIG. 1B) where the frozen noodles 2 are stored. Moreover, this embodiment deals with noodles and does not use a lump of frozen tools such as so-called tools. It is also possible to adopt a reverse order to that described so far, in which the frozen soup 2 is first stored in relation to the above process, and then the frozen noodles 1 are placed thereon.

Second Embodiment Next, FIGS. 4 and 5 show a method for producing cooked frozen food and a cooked frozen food according to a second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of cooked frozen food, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing this manufacturing process. This is related to udon with frozen ingredients 3 and the soup is boiled but soup. The broth, ingredients and boiled noodles are individually frozen separately, frozen noodle 1, frozen soup 2 and frozen The ingredients 3 are prepared and stored in a freezer.

  The cooking container 4 used in this embodiment is a microwave heating container used in the first embodiment described above, and is a cooking container hung on a microwave oven at home and a processing container used in a factory. It can be done.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the frozen noodle 1 is placed in the cooking container 4, then the frozen soup 2 is placed on the frozen noodle 1, and the frozen ingredients 3 are placed on the frozen soup 2, If it covers the cover part 43, it will become the cooked frozen food 50 of this embodiment. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the manufacturing process. The noodle freezing process, the soup freezing process, and the ingredients freezing process are separately performed in advance, and the frozen noodles are put in a container. The frozen soup lump is placed on the container, and the frozen ingredient lump is placed on the frozen soup lump so that the lid 43 of the container is covered. Although not specifically shown, the periphery of the frozen food 50 thus obtained is further wrapped with shrink and shipped frozen.

  Although this series of steps can be performed manually, it is possible to perform the above steps by mechanical flow using a conveyor as in the first embodiment described above. The frozen noodle 1, the frozen soup 2, and the frozen ingredient 3 are formed so as to match the planar shape of the inner container 40 as much as possible in a position (see FIG. 4) where the frozen noodle 1 is stored. Moreover, regarding the said process, it is also possible to change the order of the frozen noodle 1, the frozen soup 2, and the frozen ingredients 3 stored in the inner container 40.

3rd Embodiment Next, the cooked frozen food of 3rd Embodiment of this invention is represented with the plane schematic diagram of FIG. The frozen food of this embodiment is obtained through the process of arranging the frozen soup 20 that has been frozen in the form of four divisions on the frozen noodle 1 while matching the shape of the cooking container 4. Such division may be performed on frozen noodles.

  Since the frozen soup 20 is divided into four parts and frozen, it can efficiently perform not only the freezing process during production but also the thawing heating during cooking. In addition, when using a freezing material, even if it attaches to this freezing material, you may make it subdivide into arbitrary numbers, such as 2-part dividing and 3-part dividing.

Fourth Embodiment Next, a cooked frozen food according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention is represented by a schematic sectional view of FIG. Each of the frozen soups divided into two parts in the upper and lower sides is formed with a groove 22 in the central part of the surface that becomes the inner side when they are combined. Get frozen bear shape food. That is, the depth of the groove portion 22 is set to a size that allows the frozen noodles 1 to fit in.

  Since the frozen soup 21 is divided into two and frozen, it can efficiently perform not only the freezing process during production but also the thawing heating during cooking. In addition, since the frozen noodles 1 are stored in the frozen soup 21, so-called frozen baking of the noodles may be reduced.

Fifth Embodiment FIG. 8 shows a method for manufacturing cooked frozen food according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention. The frozen noodles 1 and the frozen soup 23 are prepared in advance. The characteristic feature of this embodiment is the frozen soup 23, which is made into scraped ice once frozen. Then, when half of the required amount of frozen soup 23 is poured into the cooking container 4, the frozen noodles 1 are placed thereon, and the remaining half of the frozen soup 23 is poured onto this so as to cover a lid (not shown). A cooked frozen food in the form can be obtained. Finally, the periphery of the cooking container 4 is wrapped with shrink. The frozen soup 23 can use crushed crushed ice instead of shaved ice. Alternatively, these can be mixed.

  Although this series of steps can be performed manually, it is possible to perform the above steps by mechanical flow using a conveyor 6 as shown in FIG. The frozen noodles 1 and the frozen ice-like frozen soup 23 that have been frozen in advance are stored frozen in a refrigerator, and the stocker 60 for taking them out of the freezer and putting them in a standby state has the above-mentioned frozen ice-like frozen state. An injection nozzle 61 for taking out the soup 23 is provided. Therefore, an empty cooking container 4 is supplied onto the conveyor 6, and the iced-like frozen soup 23 is poured into the cooking container 4 at a predetermined position from the pouring nozzle 61, and the cooking container 4 is sent forward. In the next stage, the frozen noodles 1 are dropped onto the ice-like frozen soup 23, and the cooking container 4 is further fed first. In the next stage, the remaining half of the ice-like frozen soup 23 is frozen from the injection nozzle 61. It is poured onto the noodle 1 and the cooking container 4 is covered with a lid at a predetermined position (not shown). In this way, the frozen noodle 1 is in a state where its periphery is covered with the iced frozen soup 23. Although not shown, in the next stage, the frozen food thus produced is wrapped around by shrink and shipped as a frozen product.

Sixth Embodiment Next, a cooked frozen food according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention is shown in a schematic sectional view of FIG. In this, noodles, ingredients and soup are frozen separately, frozen noodles 1 which are frozen lumps are wrapped with shrink 7, frozen soup 2 is wrapped with shrink 7, and frozen ingredients 3 are shrinked with shrink 7. They are wrapped and placed in a predetermined order in an empty cooking container (not shown). Here, the frozen noodles 1, the frozen ingredients 3, and the frozen soup 2 are arranged in this order from the bottom.

  Prior to thawing and heating the entire container in a microwave oven, the user only has to break the shrink 7 of the frozen noodle 1, frozen soup 2, and frozen ingredients 3 and take out the contents, which is difficult and annoying. It can be used easily by anyone. The quality of the frozen noodles 1, the frozen soup 2 and the frozen ingredients 3 can be maintained until cooking by the shrink 7.

  In this invention, noodle dishes such as udon, soba, ramen, soup spaghetti, etc. were taken up, but any noodle-based food can be applied, and these also apply to this invention. It is within the scope of rights. It is also possible to provide frozen foods that use cereals such as rice instead of noodles. For example, frozen rice with frozen rice and utensils and frozen tea with frozen tea are used for microwave heating. It can be said that the various methods for producing frozen tea products and the frozen tea products produced thereby are also within the scope of the present invention.

  It is explanatory drawing showing the manufacturing process of the cooked frozen food of 1st Embodiment.   It is explanatory drawing showing the manufacturing process of the cooked frozen food of the embodiment.   It is a flowchart showing the manufacturing process of the cooked frozen food of the embodiment.   It is a schematic diagram of the cooked frozen food of 2nd Embodiment.   It is a flowchart showing the manufacturing process of the cooked frozen food of the embodiment.   It is a plane schematic diagram of the cooked frozen food of 3rd Embodiment.   It is a cross-sectional schematic diagram of the cooked frozen food of 4th Embodiment.   It is explanatory drawing showing the manufacturing process of the cooked frozen food of 5th Embodiment.   It is a cross-sectional schematic diagram of the cooked frozen food of 6th Embodiment.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Frozen noodle 2 Frozen soup 20 Frozen soup 21 Frozen soup 22 Groove part 23 Frozen soup 3 Frozen ingredients 4 Cooking container 40 Inner container 41 Raised bottom 42 Outer container 43 Lid part 44 Steam vent 5 Frozen food 50 Frozen food 6 Conveyor 60 Stocker 61 Injection nozzle 7 Shrink S space

Claims (20)

  In the method for producing cooked frozen foods in which noodles and soups are combined and frozen, the noodles and soups are separately frozen, and the frozen noodles and soups are placed in any order in a microwave heating container. A method for producing cooked frozen food, characterized by being stored in   In a method for producing cooked frozen foods in which noodles and soup are combined and frozen, the noodles and soup are each separately frozen, and the frozen noodles are placed in a microwave heating container, and then the noodles A method for producing a cooked frozen food, characterized in that the frozen soup is placed on a plate.   In a method for producing cooked frozen foods in which noodles, utensils and soups are combined and frozen, the noodles, utensils and soups are separately frozen, and the frozen noodles and utensils are placed in a microwave heating container. A method for producing cooked frozen food, characterized by storing soup in an arbitrary order.   In a method for producing cooked frozen foods in which noodles, utensils and soups are frozen, noodles, utensils and soups are separately frozen, and the frozen noodles are first placed in a microwave heating container. Next, the method for producing cooked frozen food is characterized in that the frozen utensils are placed on the noodles and the frozen soup is finally placed on the utensils.   In a method for producing cooked frozen foods in which noodles, utensils and soups are frozen together, noodles, utensils and soups are separately frozen, and the frozen utensils are first placed in a microwave heating container. Then, the frozen noodles are placed on the utensils, and finally the frozen soup is placed on the noodles.   The cooked frozen food production according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein a container for heating a microwave oven is transported by a conveyor, and the individually frozen products are stored in the container and packaged in order. Method.   The method for producing cooked frozen food according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the soup is subdivided and frozen.   6. The cooked frozen food according to claim 1, wherein, when individually frozen, the frozen food is frozen so as to be thinned by roughly matching the shape of a container for heating a microwave oven. Manufacturing method.   The method for producing cooked frozen food according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the frozen soup is crushed or shaved.   The method for producing cooked frozen food according to claim 9, wherein the frozen noodles are covered with the crushed or shaved soup and placed in a container.   In the prepared frozen food that is frozen by combining the noodle and the soup, the noodle and the soup are each separately frozen, and the frozen noodle and soup are placed in a microwave heating container. A cooked frozen food, characterized in that is stored in any order.   In cooked frozen foods that are frozen by combining noodles and soup, noodles and soup are each frozen separately, and the frozen noodles are placed in a microwave heating container. A cooked frozen food, characterized in that the frozen soup is placed on the noodles.   In cooked frozen foods that are prepared by freezing noodles, utensils, and soups, noodles, utensils, and soups are each frozen separately and frozen in a microwave heating container. A cooked frozen food characterized in that noodles, ingredients and soup are stored in any order.   In cooked frozen foods that are prepared by freezing noodles, utensils and soups, noodles, utensils and soups are separately frozen, and the frozen foods are placed in a microwave heating container first. Cooked frozen, characterized in that the frozen noodles are stored, the frozen utensils are stored on the noodles, and the frozen soup is further stored on the utensils. Food.   In cooked frozen foods that are prepared by freezing noodles, utensils and soups, noodles, utensils and soups are separately frozen, and the frozen foods are placed in a microwave heating container first. Cooked frozen, characterized in that the frozen noodles are stored on the utensils, and the frozen soup is further stored on the noodles. Food.   The cooked frozen food according to any one of claims 11 to 15, wherein the frozen soup is subdivided.   The frozen soup is divided into two parts, each having a groove at the center, and the two frozen soups are stacked so that the groove sides are aligned with each other. The cooked frozen food according to claim 16, wherein the frozen noodles are contained therein.   The cooked product according to any one of claims 11 to 15, wherein the individually frozen products are thinned by roughly matching the shape of a container for heating a microwave oven. Frozen food.   The cooked frozen food according to any one of claims 11 to 15, wherein the frozen soup is crushed or shaved.   The cooked frozen food according to claim 19, wherein the frozen noodles are covered with the crushed or shaved soup in the container.

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