PRODUCTION OF BAKED PRODUCT USING SUPER-HEATED STEAM AND ITS BAKING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain baked food that has new texture and taste and has a good combination of moistness, softness and elasticity that fits to the preference of almost all of Japanese consumers. SOLUTION: In the production of baked food products, the oxygen concentration in the baking chamber is set to 3-15% and super-heated steam is used to effect the baking. This baking unit is equipped with a belt conveyer 11 for transferring the baked products, a pipe 14 that has an arbitrary number of compressed air-jetting holes bored and a pipe 7 that has an arbitrary number of super-heated steam-jetting holes bored.