Patent ID: 8525087
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A food product kit, for cooking, browning and crisping a rising dough rim having a first smaller uncooked size and a second larger cooked size, comprising: a support wall located substantially beneath a susceptor food support surface portion that is configured to carry the rising dough rim thereon, the support wall elevating the susceptor food support surface portion and cooperating with the support surface portion to form a substantially enclosed cavity beneath the support surface portion, the support wall comprising spaced-apart slots; a susceptor ring for use above said food support surface portion having a susceptor surface facing both a top and a side of said rising dough rim, said susceptor ring having a size larger than the first uncooked size of said rising dough rim, approximately equal to the second, larger, cooked size of said rising dough rim and sized to fit within the cavity beneath the support surface portion; and said susceptor ring supported above said rising dough rim such that, as said rising dough rim is cooked, said rising dough rim rises and contacts said susceptor surface effective to conductively heat, brown and crisp at least a portion of said rising dough rim and is subsequently confined in size by said susceptor surface, the susceptor ring comprising spaced-apart downwardly extending tabs that insert into the slots in the support wall, travel within the slots, and are guided by the slots during lifting of the susceptor ring by the rising dough rim.