COMBINATION PRESS AND OVEN

摘要

A press and oven combination for pressing and baking food products, such as tortillas, has a continuous and very thin press belt (40) moving through a press (60) and an oven (30). Heater platens (62, 64) under the press belt (40) heat the pressed tortillas primarily by conduction. By avoiding transfer of the tortillas between belts as they move from the press (60) to the oven (30) sticky or crumbly food materials may be pressed and baked. The continuous belt surface provides a griddle-like heating more similar to traditional hand made tortillas.