Fried food producing method and apparatus therefor

摘要

PCT No. PCT/JP94/01697 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 5, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 5, 1995 PCT Filed Oct. 11, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/12989 PCT Pub. Date May 18, 1995An object of the present invention is to mass-produce fried food of high quality having no unevenly fried spots by making uniform the amount of cooking oil for frying food fed to food and the temperature distribution of the oil. A plurality of stacked pan-like trays (10) are received in a closable processing tank (1) and heated cooking oil is rapidly fed into the trays (10) through the side wall thereof by oil feed nozzles (41) so that the oil flows on the bottoms of the trays (10) at a given flow rate, the excess oil being allowed to overflow from the side opposite to the oil feed side to flow downwardly of the trays (10). The stacked trays (10) are individually fed with oil by the oil feed nozzles (41) so that none of the oil flowing from upper trays enters lower trays. The oil feed nozzles (41) are slidable back and forth relative to the trays (10), and the processing tank (1) is pressurized or evacuated according to the cooking conditions for articles of food a. The oil which has flowed down from the stacked trays (10) to the bottom of the processing tank (1) is purified outside the processing tank (1) for reuse.