Patent ID: 6558724
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
A continuous process for treating food products carrying a pre-cooked coating that is fragile and easily dislodged in the cooking operation, comprising the steps of providing a fryer having an endless conveyor including a conveyor belt through which cooking oil can flow, providing a volume of cooking oil for conduction to the fryer, placing the food products with the fragile coating on the conveyor at a loading station for treatment in the fryer and then moving the food products to an unloading station while dispensing from above the conveyor a smooth flowing curtain of hot cooking oil onto the food products carried on the conveyor, controlling the oil flow so that the oil flows downwardly continuously in a curtain of oil for covering and coating the food products on the conveyor, and then removing the treated food products from the fryer at the unloading station.