Patent ID: 6479087
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: A01J,A21C,A21D

Abstract:
An automated method of making pizza crusts having a rim filled with cheese, the automated method comprising:providing a crust having a peripheral region thereabout; providing small shreds of frozen mozzarella cheese for forming into cheese stuffing for the rim; heating the small shreds of frozen mozzarella cheese; extruding the heated mozzarella cheese within a predetermined pressure range that avoids oiling off to form a smooth paste-like body of cheese in a bead form with the body lacking stringiness; depositing the bead of cheese about the peripheral region of the crust; folding an edge of the crust over the bead of cheese; and baking the crust with the mozzarella cheese bead reconstituting so that the body has stringiness to form the cheese stuffed rim with stringy cheese inside.