JP3946727B2 - Food processing container, food processing apparatus, and food manufacturing method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a food processing container, a food processing apparatus, and a food manufacturing method. In particular, the present invention relates to a food processing container, a food processing apparatus, and a food manufacturing method suitable for manufacturing a donut or fried bread that is obtained by frying fermented bread dough with oil.

Conventionally, donuts are produced by forming dough formed by kneading wheat flour into a predetermined size and shape by die cutting, etc., fermenting the dough after molding, placing it in heated oil, and frying in oil It was. The dough placed in the oil contains bubbles and floats on the surface of the oil, so when the side facing the oil is fried up, it is inverted on the oil surface and the other is also fried and taken out in the same way. It was. In addition, a technique is known in which a hollow metal mold is formed using a metal plate having a large number of small holes on the outer periphery, and the mold is used as a baking mold for a pan (Patent Document 1).
JP 59-42836

In the conventional method for producing donuts, the dough is shaped into a predetermined size and shape, then fermented and expanded, and then fried in oil. Therefore, the shape of the donut as a finished product is a general annular shape, a spherical shape or a rod shape, a shape like a rope, etc., and forms a donut having a complicated surface shape. I couldn't. Furthermore, it is extremely difficult to accurately represent the shape of an animated character appearing on a television or the like, or to accurately represent the shape of an animal, train, or the like.
The conventional mold is for baking bread in an oven or the like, and is not intended to be used as a mold for frying in oil. In other words, donuts and deep-fried bread that are completely submerged in oil may cause the bubbles in the dough to swell and tear, or the oil may be excessively sucked and become deeply fried. End up. However, the conventional mold does not employ a structure for realizing the matters to be considered when manufacturing such a donut.

  The present invention has been invented in view of the above-mentioned problems, and provides a mold, an apparatus, a method, and the like that can manufacture donuts and fried breads formed into three-dimensional shapes such as animation characters, animals, and trains. It is for the purpose.

In order to solve the above problems, the invention according to claim 1 of the present application has the following configuration. Nasuchi,
A food processing container having a hollow housing part formed by a metal mesh or a metal plate having a large number of small holes on the outer peripheral surface,
A driven shaft or a driven portion that is detachably attached to the driving portion of the rotating food processing apparatus, and a shaft that is detachably supported by the bearing portion of the food processing device;
The housing part is formed by opposing two mold plates each provided with a recess, and the inner surface of the housing part is a mold that forms the outer shape of the food,
2. The food processing container according to claim 1, wherein the two mold plates are provided with a locking means for preventing an opening operation of the housing portion .

The invention according to claim 2 of the present application has the following configuration. Nasuchi
There are provided a container for forming the outer shape of the food formed by opposing two metal meshes each having a recess or a metal plate having a large number of small holes, and a lock means for preventing the opening of the container. A food processing apparatus for detachably mounting a food processing container,
A food processing apparatus comprising: a rotating means for rotating the food processing container mounted; and an adjusting means for adjusting the height of the rotating food processing container so that the height of the rotating food processing container is near the water surface or the oil surface.

The invention according to claim 3 has the following configuration. Nasuchi
In the storage part of the food processing container formed by a metal mesh or a metal plate with a large number of small holes, the dough for donuts or fried bread is expanded by fermentation,
About half of the food processing container containing the expanded dough is immersed in oil heated to a predetermined temperature to fry one side of the dough, and then the food processing container is rotated to fry the other side of the dough to complete cooking. And
A method for producing a food such as a donut or a deep-fried bread, wherein the food after cooking is taken out from the food processing container.

The food processing container according to the invention of the present application can be processed such as frying with oil in a state where the processed food is put in a container provided in the food processing container. The driven shaft provided in the food processing container can be rotated in the vicinity of the oil level or in the oil by being attached to a predetermined rotating device. In addition, even when it is necessary to form a large amount of food, by preparing a large number of food processing containers, it is possible to process food while sequentially removing and attaching the food processing containers attached to the rotating device. And has the effect of being able to continuously produce processed foods of stable quality.
Moreover, the food processing apparatus according to the present invention can detachably attach a food processing container containing processed food, and even when mass-producing processed food, the depth when the processed food is immersed in oil The thickness can be kept uniform and the food can be reversed quickly. Therefore, it has the effect that processed food with stable quality can be provided.
In addition, the food processing container, food processing apparatus, and food processing method according to the present invention are suitable for manufacturing donuts, fried breads, etc., and fry one side on the oil surface for a certain period of time and invert it to fry the opposite surface for a certain time. It is possible to provide an extremely effective means and method for food processing performed continuously. In addition, when the food is inflated in the housing recess, the food can be formed according to the shape of the housing recess, and the food modeled on animals or animation characters can be industrially mass-produced. It has the effect.

Hereinafter, the best embodiment of the food processing container, the food processing apparatus, and the food manufacturing method according to the present invention will be described.
FIG. 1A is a plan view showing a food processing apparatus 1 according to the present invention, and FIG. 1B shows a side view of the food processing apparatus 1. 2A is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of the food processing apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 1A, and FIG. 2B is a cross-sectional view taken along line BB of the food processing apparatus 1 shown in FIG. A line sectional view is shown. 3A is a cross-sectional view taken along the line CC of the food processing apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. 3B is a cross-sectional view taken along the line DD of the food processing apparatus 1 shown in FIG. The figure is shown.
The food processing apparatus 1 includes a hollow food processing container 2 having an outer peripheral surface formed of a metal mesh or a metal plate having a large number of small holes, and an apparatus main body 3 to which the food processing container 2 can be attached and rotated. It is configured.

The food processing container (hereinafter referred to as “container”) 2 is used as a mold for forming the outer shape of food such as donuts, and is also used as a processing container for frying food in oil as it is. . In the present embodiment, the container 2 has two front and back mold plates 4 (4a, 4b) obtained by press-molding a plate body in which a plurality of small holes having a predetermined shape are formed in a metal plate such as punching metal.
Are used, and the template plates 4a and 4b are opposed to each other and are combined to form a storage space 5 having a predetermined shape. In addition, the container 2 should just be what can accommodate processed foods, such as donut dough mentioned later, and can heat the said processed food, putting in oil or hot water, such as a raw material, a manufacturing method, etc. It is not limited to what was described in the form. In the present embodiment, punching metal is used as the mold plates 4a and 4b, but a fine wire mesh formed by weaving thin wire wires (wires) may be used.
In the present embodiment, five storage spaces 5 are formed in one container 2, and each of the template plates 4a and 4b has five concave portions (5a and 5b) that form the respective storage spaces along the longitudinal direction. It is provided at equal intervals. A hinge 6 is formed on one side edge along the longitudinal direction of the container 2 to rotatably connect the two template plates 4a and 4b. The template plates 4a and 4b can be opened and closed around the hinge 6. It has become. When the respective templates 4a and 4b are opened around the hinge 6, the inner surfaces of the recesses (5a and 5b) forming the receiving space 5 are exposed, and when closed, the receiving space 5 having a predetermined shape is formed. .
In addition, a plurality of small holes are provided at least on the outer periphery of the storage space 5, and as will be described in detail later, the donut dough is kept in the storage space 5 and the frying oil is allowed to pass through to touch the dough. Can be done.

  The other side edge along the longitudinal direction of the container 2 is formed with a locking means that is detachably coupled to both the mold plates 4a and 4b that are opened and closed. In the present embodiment, a plurality of cylindrical portions 7a formed on the edge of the template 4a as lock means and a plurality of cylindrical portions 7b formed on the edge of the template 4b are alternately arranged on the same axis. In addition, a means for preventing the opening operation of both mold plates 4a and 4b by inserting one pin 8 into each of the cylindrical portions 7a and 7b is used. The lock means is configured to release the lock by pulling out the pin 8 and open both mold plates 4a and 4b. Note that the locking of the both mold plates 4a and 4b is not limited to the above structure, and other structures may be used as long as they can be quickly locked and unlocked.

At both ends in the longitudinal direction of the container 2, shafts 9 and 10 that serve as the rotation center of the container 2 are provided coaxially. The shaft bodies 9 and 10 are portions supported by a drive unit 11 and a bearing unit 12 of the apparatus main body 3 to be described in detail later. In particular, the shaft body 9 functions as a driven shaft that rotates the container 2 as the drive unit 11 rotates.
In the present embodiment, the shaft body 9 has a parallel surface (two-surface width 21) formed on the front and back surfaces along the longitudinal direction on the circumferential side surface of the cylinder, and the parallel surface is associated with the mounting portion 19 of the drive unit 11. In combination, the rotational force is transmitted. The shaft body 10 is a cylindrical rod body that is detachably attached to the bearing portion 12 and is rotatably supported.
Further, since the shape and structure of the shaft body 9 are different in accordance with the structure of the apparatus main body 3, it is sufficient that the shaft body 9 is detachably held and rotated by the apparatus main body 3. You may form as a to-be-driven part which does not use a rod-shaped axis | shaft. The same applies to the shaft body 10.

Next, the apparatus main body 3 will be described. In the present embodiment, the apparatus main body 3 is formed so as to be detachably attached to a pot or tank (39) heated with oil, and the structure is changed in a timely manner according to the shape of the pot or tank. Is.
The apparatus main body 3 forms a drive device 14 including a drive unit 11 that supports the shaft body 9 of the container 2 and rotates the shaft body 9, and a bearing unit 12 that rotatably supports the shaft body 10 of the container 2. The bearing device 15 is configured.

The drive device 14 has an attachment member 16 that engages with an opening edge of the pan or tank, and has a drive mechanism 17 that rotationally drives the drive unit 11 in order to attach the oil to the pan or oil tank to be heated. The mounting member 16 and the drive mechanism 17 are structured to have a frame 18 for holding them together.
The drive unit 11 is a member that is pivotally supported by the frame 18, and has a mounting unit 19 that mounts and holds the shaft body 9 of the container 2 at a position coaxial with the rotation center of the drive unit 11. ing.
The mounting portion 19 is formed with a parallel surface that engages with the two-surface width 21 formed on the side surface of the shaft body 9 at a position coaxial with the center of rotation, and the shaft body 9 is formed on the parallel surface above and below the parallel surface. Is provided with a wide-angle inclined surface 20. The shaft body 9 is guided by the inclined surface 20 and enters the mounting portion 19 where the parallel surface is formed, and comes into contact with an edge 27 provided on the frame 18. That is, the edge 27 provided on the frame 18 is in contact with the peripheral side surface of the shaft body 9 to support the shaft body 9 from below, and the shaft body 9 is in contact with and supported by the edge 27. The drive unit 11 is rotationally driven.

  The drive unit 11 is connected to the small gear 22 via a partition wall constituting the frame 18, and rotates with the rotation of the small gear 22. The small gear 22 meshes with a large gear 24 that is rotated by a handle 23. The ratio of the number of teeth of the small gear 22 and the large gear 24 is 1: 2, and when the large gear 24 is rotated 90 degrees, the small gear 22 is rotated 180 degrees. That is, when the shaft body 9 is mounted on the drive unit 11 and the large gear 24 is rotated 90 degrees by the handle 23, the shaft body 9 mounted on the drive unit 11 rotates 180 degrees, and accordingly the container 2 is turned upside down. (Fig. 3 (b)).

Further, the frame 18 has an attachment member 16 for mounting on a tank (39) heated with oil. Various methods are conceivable for the mounting member 16, but in this embodiment, the mounting member 16 has a groove-like portion that engages with the outer peripheral edge of the pan or the oil tank, and the groove-like part is fitted to the peripheral edge of the oil tank. It is like that. The attachment member 16 is provided with a height adjustment mechanism that can change the height of the mounted container 2 relative to the oil level. It is desirable that the rotation center of the container 2 is substantially the same height as the oil surface, and the height adjusting mechanism performs the processing of the dough using the container 2 and changes the amount of the oil in the container 2 according to the reduced amount of oil. The height can be changed.
In the present embodiment, by rotating the screw 26 for attaching the attachment member 16, the attachment member 16 moves up and down, and the height of the container 2 with respect to the pan or the oil tank can be changed.

The bearing device 15 will be described. The bearing device 15 is paired with the drive device 14 described above, and is formed with a bearing portion 12 that rotatably supports the shaft body 10 of the container 2. The bearing portion 12 is formed as a V-shaped notch formed in the end edge 29 of the frame 28 constituting the bearing device 15. An inner peripheral surface substantially the same as the outer periphery of the shaft body 10 is formed at the apex portion of the V-shaped notch. The inner peripheral surface serves as a bearing portion of the shaft body 10 (FIG. 3A).
The bearing device 15 is also provided with a height adjusting mechanism for freely changing the height. In the present embodiment, by rotating the screw 31 for attaching the attachment member 30, the attachment member 30 moves up and down, and the height of the container 2 relative to the oil tank or the like can be changed.

FIG. 4 shows a state in which the pair of templates 4 a and 4 b constituting the container 2 are opened around the hinge 6. Each of the template plates 4a and 4b is formed by forging a sheet of punching metal (a thin plate having a plurality of small holes) or a wire net, and each of the receiving recesses (5a, 5b) is provided. The container 2 can open each template 4a, 4b by extracting the pin 8 from the cylindrical parts 7a, 7b, and can put the unprocessed food (processed food) into the accommodation space 5. ing.
Moreover, in this Embodiment, although each accommodating recessed part 5a, 5b is formed in the shape which becomes substantially symmetrical, you may make it a different shape. For example, the housing recess 5a can have various shapes such as an animal's face, and the housing recess 5b can be shaped like a back of the head.

Hereinafter, a method for manufacturing a donut will be described as an example of food processing with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.
[Step 1] A step of creating a donut dough.
First, make donut dough (material to be processed) that will be the donut material. Donut dough (same for bread dough) is produced by mixing and kneading a predetermined amount of flour, sugar, salt with water, yeast, etc. Instead of the yeast, baking powder or starch may be used as a material for expanding the dough.
[Step 2] A step of putting the donut dough into the accommodating recess 5 of the container 2.
In this process, the donut dough prepared in the above step is weighed, and after inserting a predetermined amount into the receiving recess 5 of the container 2, the pins 8a and 4b are inserted and locked so as not to open. In this step, the dough is expanded in the housing recess 5 by fermentation or the like at a predetermined temperature. When the donut dough is expanded by fermentation, the donut dough is spread over the corners of the accommodation recess 5 and pressed against the inner surface, and the donut dough is molded according to the inner shape of the accommodation recess 5. [Step 3] A step of frying the donuts with heated oil.
When expansion | swelling by the fermentation etc. in the said storage recessed part 5 is complete | finished, the operation | work which fries donut dough by immersing the container 2 with the donut dough put in the heated oil is performed. The apparatus main body 3 to which the container 2 is attached is attached to a tank 39 such as a pot filled with oil 38 in advance. The oil 38 is heated to a predetermined temperature by a gas furnace 40 or the like.
The height of the apparatus main body 3 is adjusted by the mounting member 30 so that the lower half of the mounted container 2 is immersed in oil and the upper half is not immersed in oil (see FIG. 5). The container 2 is held by the apparatus main body 3 by holding the shaft body 9 on the mounting portion 19 of the drive unit 11 and holding the shaft body 10 on the bearing portion 12. At this time, the rotation of the container 2 is limited by sandwiching the two-surface width 21 by the shaft body 9 on the parallel surface of the mounting portion 19. The container 2 can be attached to the apparatus main body 3 simply by lowering the container 2 from above.
After the one side of the container 2 is immersed in oil, one side of the donut dough is fried, and then the container 2 is rotated upside down so that the opposite side of the container 2 is immersed in oil and the opposite side of the donut dough is fried. The front and back of the container 2 can be rotated only by tilting the handle 23 tilted in one direction in the opposite direction. The handle 23 is configured to rotate the small gear 22 and the drive unit 11 through the large gear 24 and to reverse the container 2 through the shaft body 9 mounted on the mounting unit 19. In the present embodiment, the gear ratio between the large gear 24 and the small gear 22 is 2: 1. Therefore, by rotating the large gear 24 approximately 90 degrees, the small gear is rotated 180 degrees, and the container 2 is turned upside down. It can be reversed.
[Step 4]
A step of taking out the donut from the container 2.
When the frying process of the donut dough is completed in the above process, the container 2 is removed from the apparatus body 3. The container 2 can be removed from the apparatus main body 3 simply by lifting up.
The removed container 2 can be opened by removing the pins 8 that restrict the opening and closing of the templates 4a and 4b. When the mold plates 4a and 4b are opened, the donut formed along the inner surface shape of the housing recesses 5a and 5b can be taken out.
For example, if the housing recesses 5a and 5b are formed in a shape simulating an animation character, a donut having the outer shape of the animation character can be formed.

As described above, a donut formed in a predetermined outer shape can be obtained using the food processing container and the food processing apparatus according to the present invention. Next, features of the food processing container and the food processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described.
Conventional donut cooking (manufacturing) methods include forming a dough that has been flattened into an annular shape, or a dough that has been formed into a rope shape by combining multiple doughs that have been stretched into a thin rod shape. The dough formed in the respective shapes is fried in oil to produce a donut having a predetermined shape. Therefore, it has been difficult to mass-produce donuts in the shape of animation characters, animals, automobiles, trains, etc. with this manufacturing method.
On the other hand, in the food processing container (container 2) according to the present invention, if the receiving recesses 5a and 5b can be formed on the templates 4a and 4b, the shape of the receiving recesses 5a and 5b is substantially satisfied. A donut with the outer shape can be manufactured. Since the dough expands during fermentation, the dough is pushed against the inner surfaces of the housing recesses 5a and 5b by the expansion and is formed into a predetermined shape. Further, since it expands due to gas confined inside or water vaporized during heating, the dough is swollen by the expansion action of the gas or the like and is pushed against the inner surface of the receiving recesses 5a and 5b, and is almost received. The donut shape | molded according to the inner surface shape of this is formed.

Also, donuts must be fried while floating on the oil surface. In other words, the donut is heated while appropriately releasing the expanded gas and water vapor. However, when heated in a state where it is submerged in oil, the generation and release of water vapor becomes excessive, causing cracks on the donut surface. Or the oil penetrates too much into the dough, leading to deterioration of quality. For this reason, it is necessary to heat the donut while floating on the oil surface.
For these reasons, the food processing container according to the present invention can perform the heating of the donut dough on the oil surface in the same state. The container 2 has housing recesses 5a and 5b, which are molds, on the front and back sides of shafts 9 and 10 provided at both ends in the longitudinal direction. As shown in FIG. 5, by holding the shafts 9 and 10 of the container 2 at substantially the same position as the oil surface, only one of the receiving recesses 5a and 5b can be immersed in the oil, and the donut dough is placed on the oil surface. Heating can be performed in the same state as when floating. Thus, the donut can be fried using the container 2 without causing problems such as rupture or excessive oil.

Moreover, in order to fry a donut using the said container 2, this-application food processing apparatus has the apparatus main body 3 which hold | maintains the container 2 rotatably on the surface of oil. By using the apparatus main body 3, the donut dough can be fried without being buried in oil, and a donut with a good finish can be created in the same manner as heating without using the container 2. Yes.
In addition, the container 2 can be attached to the apparatus main body 3 simply by placing it from above, and can be taken out simply by lifting it upward. In addition, the apparatus main body 3 according to the present embodiment is mounted with the container 2 placed and mounted from above, and the container 2 rotated when the one side of the dough is fried and rotated when the other side of the dough is fried. It can be taken out as it is without reversing it. As described above, the process from the mounting of the container 2 to the removal thereof can be performed quickly with fewer man-hours.

  Moreover, this invention is not restricted to manufacture of the donut using oil, It can apply also to the process of other foodstuffs. It can also be used for food processing where hot water is used instead of oil, and can be applied to food processing where heating is performed while floating on the surface of hot water.

It is the top view and side view showing the food processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is the sectional view on the AA line of the food processing apparatus shown to Fig.1 (a), and the BB sectional view of the food processing apparatus shown to Fig.2 (a). It is CC sectional view taken on the line of the food processing apparatus shown in FIG. 2, and DD sectional view taken on the line of the food processing apparatus shown to Fig.2 (a). It is explanatory drawing showing the use condition of the food processing container which concerns on this invention. It is explanatory drawing showing the use condition of the food processing container and food processing apparatus which concern on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 Food processing equipment 2 Food processing container (container)
3 Device body 4a, 4b Template 5 Housing space 5a, 5b Housing recess 6 Hinge 7a, 7b Cylindrical portion 8 Pin 9 Shaft body 10 Shaft body 11 Driving portion 12 Bearing portion 14 Driving device 15 Bearing device 16 Mounting member 17 Driving mechanism 18 Frame 19 Mounting portion 21 Width across flat 20 Inclined surface 22 Small gear 23 Handle 24 Large gear 26 Screw 27 End edge 28 Frame 29 End edge 30 Mounting member 31 Screw 38 Oil 39 Tank 40 Gas furnace

Claims (3)

A food processing container having a hollow housing part formed by a metal net or a metal plate having a large number of small holes on its outer peripheral surface,
A driven shaft or a driven portion that is detachably attached to a driving portion of a rotating food processing apparatus, and a shaft that is detachably supported by a bearing portion of the food processing device;
The housing part is formed by opposing two mold plates each provided with a recess, and the inner surface of the housing part is a mold that forms the outer shape of the food,
A food processing container, wherein the two mold plates are provided with locking means for preventing the opening operation of the housing portion . There are provided a container for forming the outer shape of the food formed by opposing two metal meshes each having a recess or a metal plate having a large number of small holes, and a locking means for preventing the opening of the container. A food processing apparatus for detachably mounting a food processing container,
  A food processing apparatus comprising: a rotating means for rotating the food processing container mounted; and an adjusting means for adjusting the height of the rotating food processing container so that the height of the rotating food processing container is near the water surface or the oil surface.   In the storage part of the food processing container formed by a metal mesh or a metal plate with a large number of small holes, the dough for donuts or fried bread is expanded by fermentation,
  About half of the food processing container containing the expanded dough is immersed in oil heated to a predetermined temperature to fry one side of the dough, and then the food processing container is rotated to fry the other side of the dough to complete cooking. And
  A method for producing a food such as a donut or a deep-fried bread, wherein the food after cooking is taken out from the food processing container.

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