Kraft Foods Holdings, Inc.

Nestec S.a.

Joseph R Brooks

Panagiotis Kinigakis

Kenneth C Pokusa

Orestes Rivero

Kelly Elizabeth Arnold

Neil Edward Darin

Paul Andrew Cogley

Steven Paul Greiner

Peter Privert

Uraiwan Tangprasertchai

Amy Lynn Matusheski

Keith Eric Petrofsky

Derek Joseph Romeo

Paul A Cogley

Derek J Romeo

Neil E Darin

Multi-purpose food preparation kits for foods which include dough, at least a portion of which is exposed for cooking, browning, and crisping, and optionally rising. The kits include a support base of susceptor material elevated above a support surface by an elevator member either incorporated with a base or separate therefrom. Kits further include a ring component of susceptor material which surrounds the food product, and which is dimensioned larger than the initial dimensions of the food product, so as to be spaced therefrom, at least initially, prior to cooking The space inside the ring component allows the dough to rise during cooking without obstruction by the susceptor ring and without imparting thermal energy from the susceptor ring to the dough surface. In one embodiment the susceptor base it provided in the form of a shipping carton.

Multi-purpose food preparation kit

Multi-purpose food preparation kits for foods which include dough, at least a portion of which is exposed for cooking, browning, and crisping, and optionally rising. The kits include a support base of susceptor material elevated above a support surface by an elevator member either incorporated with a base or separate therefrom. Kits further include a ring component of susceptor material which surrounds the food product, and which is dimensioned larger than the initial dimensions of the food product, so as to be spaced therefrom, at least initially, prior to cooking. The space inside the ring component allows the dough to rise during cooking without obstruction by the susceptor ring and without imparting thermal energy from the susceptor ring to the dough surface. In one embodiment the susceptor base is provided in the form of a shipping carton.

Polygonal susceptor tray

Susceptor ring

A flexible package is provided with a shrouded slide fastener closure. The shroud includes an opening for the slide, extending to a line of weakness joining the shroud to the remainder of the flexible package. The opening includes an acute angle portion communicating with the line of weakness to facilitate tearing of the shroud from the flexible package.

Fastener closure arrangement for flexible packages

Flexible package with shrouded slide fastener closure having circular opening

Flexible package with shrouded slide fastener closure

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Joseph R Brooks