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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael P. Minelli, Richland, WA (US);
David L. Harney, Kennewick, WA (US);
Assignee:
Lamb-Weston, Inc., Kennewick, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L 1/217 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L 1/217 ;
Abstract
An process for preparing frozen potato strips or root vegetable strips includes blanching the strips, parfrying the strips in oil in a vacuum and then freezing the strips. In another embodiments, the strips are blanched, fried in oil at atmospheric pressure, cooled in air, parfried in oil in vacuum and then frozen.