INSTANT NOODLE FILLED IN CONTAINER AND ITS COOKING

• Main Authors: MATSUMOTO YOSHIYUKI, NISHIMAKI TADAO, KOYAMA HIROTSUGU, MISHIMA KEIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.08.1997
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATERTREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT; CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS,e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES,DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; CONVEYING; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HUMAN NECESSITIES; PACKAGES; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; STORING; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain fundamental noodles sprinkled in a starchy soup seasoned with soy sauce and fish flavor as readily edible instant noodles only by pouring hot water. SOLUTION: In instant noodles filled in a container, the container can house contents comprising noodles, a powdery source for a starchy soup and dried ingredients, readily stirs the contents by pouring hot water, has a shape and a size free from a corner so as to readily pour the prepared starchy soup and is equipped with a cover. The noodles together with the powdery source 5 for the starchy soup consisting essentially of a starch to be swollen with cold water and to be made into the starchy soup only by pouring hot water, and dried ingredients 4, which are separately packed, respectively and are housed in the container to give the objective instant noodles filled in the container. The cover of the container 2 has a shape usable as a pan. The noodles are preferably fried noodles. The powdery source 5 for the starchy soup comprises the starch to be swollen with cold water, salt, a powdery soup, a powdery seasoning and spice. The dried ingredients 4 are put in a main body of the container charged with the contents, hot water is poured to the container to reconstitute the dried ingredients, the powdery source 5 for the starchy soup is put in the container and stirred to prepare the starchy soup and the prepared starchy soup is poured on the noodles to cook the instant noodles filled in the container as noodles in the starchy soup.