AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING EXTRUDABLE FOOD ITEMS

• Main Authors: SUN, Wen, CHEN, Huangli, KUI, Xiaoyun
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 11.07.2019
• Subjects: BAKERY PRODUCTS; BAKING; EDIBLE DOUGHS; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HANDLING BAKED ARTICLES MADE FROM DOUGH; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MACHINES OR EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING OR PROCESSING DOUGHS; MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING, DISPERSING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PRESERVATION THEREOF; SHAPING OR WORKING OF FOODSTUFFS, NOT FULLY COVERED BY ASINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT, e.g. PRESERVATION, OF FLOUR OR DOUGH, e.g. BYADDITION OF MATERIALS

There is provided a method (200) for preparing an extrudable food item comprising wheat flour and non-wheat flour at an apparatus (10), which comprises a mixing unit (120) and a heating unit (130). The method comprises combining (210), using the mixing unit, the non-wheat flour with a liquid so as to form a first dough mixture; heating (220), using the heating unit, the first dough mixture; and combining (230), using the mixture unit, the wheat flour with the heated dough mixture to form a second dough mixture. L'invention concerne un procédé (200) de préparation d'un produit alimentaire pouvant être extrudé et comprenant de la farine de blé et de la farine non apparentée au blé, au niveau d'un appareil (10) qui comprend une unité de mélange (120) et une unité de chauffage (130). Le procédé consiste à combiner (210), à l'aide de l'unité de mélange, la farine non apparentée au blé avec un liquide de façon à former un premier mélange de pâte ; à chauffer (220), à l'aide de l'unité de chauffage, le premier mélange de pâte ; et à combiner (230), à l'aide de l'unité de mélange, la farine de blé avec le mélange de pâte chauffé afin de former un second mélange de pâte.