Patent ID: 8071148

Claim:
A method of removing an oil coating from the surfaces of a snack food product subsequent to its cooking, including the steps of feeding a supply of the product from an oil cooker, receiving the stream of product into a centrifuge and operating the centrifuge in a quick acceleration mode so that the product experiences gravitational forces in a first realm of above 30 g's, holding the product in such realm for a time period extending from about 3 to about 6 seconds, operating the centrifuge in a quick deceleration mode so that the product experiences gravitational forces in a second realm Of less than 1 g, holding the product in such second realm for a time period extending from about 1 to about 4 seconds, and then repeating the particular operational steps of acceleration, hold, deceleration, and hold set forth herein above, and then draining from the centrifuge any oil removed from the surfaces of the food product, and permitting the product to discharge from the centrifuge while operated in such second realm with very low kinetic energy.