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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2017
Frito-lay North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Robert Godfroid, McKinney, TX (US);
Austin Jon Kozman, Dallas, TX (US);
Simon John Lawton, Leicestershire, GB;
Leon Levine, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Roshni Modhwadia, Leicester, GB;
David James Stanley-Smith, Derbyshire, GB;
Frito-Lay North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of cooking a snack food, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing a bed comprising a plurality of particles, wherein the particles are composed of, comprise or consist of a material which is magnetic and/or electroconductive; b. heating the particles in the bed to form a cooking medium in the form of a heated bed of particles, wherein in step b the particles are heated at least partially by electromagnetic induction; c. providing a plurality of snack food precursor elements in the cooking medium thereby to cook the elements to form a plurality of cooked snack food pieces, wherein the heated particles transfer heat into the elements by thermal conduction; and d. separating the plurality of snack food pieces and the cooking medium.