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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1996
Benno E Liebermann, Louisville, KY (US);
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus and low temperature process providing a means for ensuring bacteriological safety in the fast food production of hamburgers and other protein or farinaceous food articles. The present invention is directed toward a method and apparatus for transferring heat to food articles contained in sealed plastic food cooking and staging containers, and is particularly adapted for cooking and/or holding previously cooked food articles quite near to a selected precise internal temperature for prolonged time periods and can be employed to defrost and cook food articles or to complete the cooking of food articles that have been previously cooked and to stage same for prolonged time periods at optimum product quality and at a precise internal product temperature within the narrow equilibration range of from between .+-.2.degree. F. and .+-.5.degree. F. thereby assuring precision, time and temperature-related, means for pathogenic risk management and food safety for public consumption.