Patent EA-000914-B1 (EA)
Title: Moulded culinary preparation
Inventor: FROT-COUTAZ ANNE
IPC: A23L19/00
Filed: 1997-09-15
Abstract: 1. Culinary semi-finished product in briquette shape, containing 8-50 wt.% of visible components, retained in a binder, comprising 15-35% of fat and 20-70% dehydrated base. 2. Culinary semi-finished product as claimed in claim 1, wherein as visual elements comprises dehydrated pieces of one or more kinds of vegetables, fruits, aromatic herbs, meat products, fish and/or crustacean or crushed seeds. 3. Culinary semi-finished product as claimed in claim 1, wherein as fat it contains at least one vegetable and/or animal fat, hydrogenated or not supplemented with antioxydant or without it, whereupon the fat is solid at ambient temperature. 4. Culinary semi-finished product as claimed in claim 1, wherein dehydrated base contains nutriments in fine-granulated condition. 5. Method for preparing of culinary semi-finished product as claimed in one of claims 1-4, providing for consequent stages of mixing of visible components with melted fat and dehydrated base, moulding of prepared mixture and cooling.  6. Method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the temperature of mixture of visible components with melted fat and dehydrated base is brought to the value, when the mixture shows suitable features for filling forming device with cells, afterwards the mixture is poured into the moulding cells, extrude the briquettes out of the cells, receive the briquettes on the cooled surface and stabilise the shape of briquettes by cooling. 7. Method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the dehydrated base is added to melted fat, mixed, and after mixing add visible components and bring the mixture temperature to 40-48 degree C. 8. The installation for realization of method as claimed in one of claims 5-7, comprising the device for mixing  visible components with melted fat and dehydrated base, the device for moulding the mixture in cells, comprising extruding means, and cooling device. 9. The installation as claimed in claim 8, wherein loading funnel with housing is located above the moulding device. 10. The installation as claimed in claim 8, wherein extruding means comprises pistols, passing via the bottom of the cells. 11. The installation as claimed in claim 8, wherein the moulding device comprises rotating drum, cylindrical shell of which is pierced with cells. 12. The installation as claimed in claim 8, wherein the device comprises horizontal plate, pierced with cells and made with possibility of horizontal reciprocation. 13. The installation as claimed in claim 8, wherein the moulding device comprises rotating drum, cylindrical shell of which is pierced with cells, disposed in rows, and which is located under loading funnel with housing, the lower part of which has cylindrical form of drum's surface and comprises agitation means. 14. The installation as claimed in claim 13, wherein the agitation means comprise two rotating agitators with their axes parallel with axis of rotating drum and carry agitating and/or distributing blades.   15. The installation as claimed in claim 13, wherein the moulding device, besides that, comprises movable, external covering with housing, having cylindrical surface of rotating drum between loading funnel and extruding means, and movable internal covering, having shape of internal surface of rotating drum shell under loading funnel and behind it approximately to the vertical position.