Patent ID: 8342081

Claim:
A system for barrier submersion cooking comprising: a. a thin walled cooking pouch for receiving a food item, said cooking pouch including a vent and dimensioned such that when lowered into a hot liquid cooking medium said vent remains above a top surface of the liquid cooking medium; b. a rack for lowering said pouch into the liquid cooking medium to a sufficient depth such that the entire food item received within said pouch is submerged below the top surface of the liquid cooking medium and said vent is above the top surface of the liquid cooking medium, wherein said rack comprises a body having an open side, said body being dimensioned such that said pouch can enter and exit only through said open side, and wherein said body is dimensioned such that a floating pouch is directed away from said open side and is prevented from exiting said rack, wherein said body further comprises a slanted cross member attached within said body effectively dimensioned and located to direct a floating pouch away from said open side; c. said pouch, upon being exposed to hydrostatic pressures from the liquid cooking medium, collapsing upon the food item contained therein such that said pouch intimately contacts substantially the entire surface of the food item contained therein; and, d. wherein said pouch is formed of liquid impermeable food grade pliable film having a melt temperature above that of a temperature used in conventional hot oil frying processes.