Patent ID: 7926416

Claim:
An apparatus for rapid cooking of edible pasta comprising: delivering means for delivering a predetermined amount of pasta and comprising a measuring device, which measures a predetermined amount of pasta to be cooked and comprises a hopper coupled with a container extractable from the hopper, the container receiving industrial packages of pasta and supplying the pasta from the industrial packages to the hopper, to prevent the manual handling of the pasta; a boiler which delivers high temperature pressurized water for cooking the pasta; a cooking chamber which receives the measured predetermined amount of pasta from the delivering means and the high temperature pressurized water from the boiler via a connecting duct; and an expansion chamber, which is connected to said cooking chamber through an admission duct, and delivers cooked pasta to a removable dish therebelow, the expansion chamber comprising: an outlet disposed at a lower portion of the expansion chamber, and a gasket, which is disposed around a lower edge of the lower portion of the expansion chamber and comprises a lip extending downwardly away from the expansion chamber, wherein the lip adheres against an internal surface of the removable dish and seals the removable dish to the outlet of the expansion chamber for the sealed removable dish to accept the cooked pasta from the outlet of the expansion chamber.