IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO THE PRODUCTION OF FOOD PRODUCTS

摘要

A process for producing fried food products comprises feeding a dough to a nip between a pair of contra-rotating rollers (10, 11) arranged with their curved surfaces in contact with each other, each of the rollers having grooves (10a, 11a) indented in its curved surface. The rollers (10, 11) push the dough into the grooves (10a, 11a) and form the dough into a lattice comprising an array of ridges imparted to the dough by one of the rollers, which ridges are spaced apart from each other and extend in substantially the same direction as each other, and an array of ridges imparted to the dough by the other roller, which ridges are spaced apart from each other and extend in substantially the same direction as each other, the direction in which the ridges of one array extend being at an angle to that of the other array so that the ridges of one array intersect the ridges of the other, and the contacting portions of the curved surfaces of the rollers provide apertures in the dough between the intersecting ridges. The process further comprises cutting portions from the dough lattice and frying the portions to provide food products having a lattice configuration.