Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Hideyuki Kondou

Kenichi Nagashima

Masata Mitsuiki

Makoto Wakabayashi

Hiroshi Takahashi

An apparatus for counting and packing solid foods comprising a table device for holding the solid foods to be counted and packed, plural vacuum nozzles, a flexible vacuum pad, and adsorption confirmation sensors. The apparatus also includes an arm holding the vacuum nozzles. The vacuum nozzles are displaceable in horizontally in a right and left direction and in a vertically up and down directions. The vacuum nozzles are configured to adsorb and convey the solid foods from the table to a packing device. A vacuum breaking channel is used to cease adsorption by compressed air.

Apparatus for counting and packing solid foods

There is provided a method for producing a frozen fried food for a microwave cooking comprising the step of a freezing of, particularly a very quick freezing (immediate quick freezing) of a deep-fat fried food, more particularly immediately after the oil-cooking thereof, at a moving speed of the freezing front exceeding 20 cm/h. A frozen product of deep-fat fried food capable of re-exhibiting a favorable crispness of a breading even after heating the frozen food by a microwave oven, and also capable of maintaining such favorable eating quality even after a prolonged storage thereof in a domestic freezer can be produced.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hideyuki Kondou