Patent ID: 6632466
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: A23C,A23P

Abstract:
A method for producing a food product having a solid external casing, the food product including at least one casing material from a food base, for forming the casing of the food product, and at least one stuffing food material, the food product formed in a coextrusion device comprising a coextrusion die fed with the food base and the stuffing food material, the method comprises the following successive steps:forming in a first section of the die the casing which solidifies by cooling, said first section being traversed longitudinally by at least one hollow needle for transferring the stuffing food material, one hollow needle per stuffing food material, and penetrating a second section of the die, the beginning of the second section being defined by the outgoing extremity of a shortest hollow needle; stuffing in a second section of the die the solid casing formed in the first portion of the die with the stuffing food material coming out of the at least one hollow needle traversing the first section; and recovering the product comprising the external casing filled with the stuffing food material at an outlet of the die.