The Pillsbury Company

David A Kirk

Raymond W Tucker

Michael R Perry

Larry M Dugan

Charles H Turpin

Samuel H Yong

Daniel J Lewandowski

Barry S Mikulski

Rocky W Chen

Deena G Hohle

Leah G Evans

Paul H LeFevre

Steve Reil

Gerald T Tracy

Michael Dreher

The present invention provides a container suitable for pressurized non-flowable consumer goods such as refrigeratable bread doughs and the like. In a first embodiment, the container includes a removable lid, a shell having sidewalls, and a piston plate. The bottom of the container includes an access port therethrough to permit access to the piston plate, which may be urged upwardly to remove product from the container. In a second embodiment, the container includes a removable lid, a shell having sidewalls and a bottom, and a removable liner. The liner may include manually graspable flanges and a stirrup extending beneath the product. The product may be removed from the container by grasping the flanges of the liner and withdrawing the liner and the product through the open top of the shell.

Method for processing an expandable food product

A dough can capable of venting internal gasses during proofing until the dough expands to fill the volume of the container is disclosed. The container of the present invention includes a cylindrical body, at least one end cap, a second end and means for allowing venting of internal gasses during proofing. A preferred means includes providing at least one notch in the wall of the container proximate the end cap. A method of proofing dough is also disclosed.

Vented dough can

A dough process is provided which allows for a slow release of pressure and dough expansion upon opening a dough container on chemically leavened fresh dough contained in the container with the release rate of pressure slower than a predetermined rate. The fresh dough contained in the container after slow release of pressure and baking will have high specific volume.

Method of processing dough to increase its baked specific volume

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Brooklyn Park, MN, United States of America

David A Kirk