| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for vacuum cooking of food with a microwave oven, and to provide a vacuum sealed vessel used in the method. SOLUTION: The vacuum sealed vessel has a heat-resistant, cold-resistant and microwave- permeable vessel body 12, and a lid 14, and is sealed up by making catches 38a and 38b engage with the vessel body; wherein the lid 14 has a check valve 18 structured so as to make vapor in the vessel only for unilaterally getting out of the vessel via air holes 16, 16, and a packing 32 attached inside a packing case 30 connectedly disposed to its peripheral edge, and the lid 14 and the vessel body 12 airtightly come into contact with each other via the packing 32. The method for vacuum cooking of food with a microwave oven comprises the following process: putting foods and water for cooking in the vessel, sealing up the vessel, heating the vessel with high-power output from the microwave oven to boil the vessel to discharge vapor in the vessel, and thereafter stopping heating to cool it so that the vessel is tightly sealed up to evacuate the inside of the vessel, keeping on heating while maintaining the vessel at low temperature with low power output from the microwave oven to enable vacuum cooking. In this method, taste permeates into the cooked food when stopping heating the vessel after the prescribed period of time passed and leaving it cool, and the inside of the vessel turns into highly vacuumed state when chilled so that permeation of the taste into the food, reabsorption of the flavor components each into the food, and aging of the resultant food are facilitated. |
