Patent ID: 9565869
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: A23L,A23V,A47J,H05B

Claim:
1. A process for cooking a food product in a treatment chamber, wherein the treatment chamber comprises two opposite walls each forming an electrode, the process comprising: (a) placing an amount of the food product, optionally in a surrounding liquid, in the treatment chamber between the two electrodes such that the food product and/or the surrounding liquid is in direct contact with the electrodes; and (b) applying electric pulses generated by a pulsed electric field generator to the electrodes such that the food product is subjected to a pulsed electric field having a field strength of 10-180 V/cm, wherein the total cooking time is 0.5-1000 seconds, wherein the food product and, if present, the surrounding liquid, has an electric conductivity of 0.01-10 S/m.