| 摘要 |
An apparatus for producing a shaped doughnut comprises a hand held nozzle 10 for dispensing dough, the nozzle having an outlet aperture connected to an inlet by a fluid pathway, a dough reservoir 16, a supply fluid pathway from the reservoir to the nozzle inlet, a dough pump 22 configured to urge dough from the reservoir to the nozzle along the supply fluid pathway, and a flow control means adapted to control flow of dough from the reservoir to the nozzle. The control means may be in the form of microcontrollers to automate the system to dispense predetermined quantities of dough, by controlling a valve in a fluid supply pathway, and/or the dough pump. Embodiments include apparatus 30 to cook the dough either in an oven or a fryer, and apparatus to dispense 40 one or more toppings or coatings on the cooked dough. A method of dispensing dough, cooking the dispensed dough, and applying a topping to the cooked dough is also described. The apparatus is intended to allow customers at an establishment to create their own shaped doughnuts, with the doughnuts then being cooked by the establishment and returned to the customer for the application of toppings. |
