Thermal mold for baking halves of an edible container, including a first heated plate having a recess that replicates an outer surface of a baked half of the edible container; a second heated plate that has at least one protrusion that replicates an inner surface of the baked half. The protrusion mates to the recess with a gap therebetween. The plates are brought together with an offset forming a horizontal surface around the recess and form the gap such that baked dough forms a tray. Second plate has teeth located along the horizontal surface, the teeth are inward and below the horizontal surface for forming cavities on an inner surface of the baked half. The second plate has cavities between the teeth and inward and above the horizontal surface for forming teeth on the inner surface of the baked half. Heater is around the recess and protrusion in plan view.

A bread cup for holding a food material and a condiment container has a cup body made of bread. The cup body has a base and an upwardly extending side wall that extends upwardly to a top perimeter, forming an interior bore that is adapted to receive the food material. The bread cup further includes a lid made of bread that has a top surface and an opposed bottom surface that together extend outwardly to a lid perimeter, the lid perimeter being sized and shaped to rest upon the top perimeter of the cup body for covering the interior bore of the cup body. A condiment receiving bore is formed in the top surface of the lid, the condiment receiving bore being sized and shaped to receive the condiment container therein.

Thermal mold for baking halves of an edible container, including a first heated plate having a recess that replicates an outer surface of a baked half of the edible container; a second heated plate that has at least one protrusion that replicates an inner surface of the baked half. The protrusion mates to the recess with a gap therebetween. The plates are brought together with an offset forming a horizontal surface around the recess and form the gap such that baked dough forms a tray. Second plate has teeth located along the horizontal surface, the teeth are inward and below the horizontal surface for forming cavities on an inner surface of the baked half. The second plate has cavities between the teeth and inward and above the horizontal surface for forming teeth on the inner surface of the baked half. Heater is around the recess and protrusion in plan view.

A system for forming and baking dough has a pallet with a female mold and a ram separate from the pallet. A ribbon of unbaked dough is located between the pallet and the ram. The ram has a male mold that is actuated to contact and stretch the dough into the female mold when the male mold engages with the female mold. A portion of the dough is separated from the ribbon and remains with the pallet as it is baked. An optional weight is mated to the pallet to maintain the position of the stretched dough with the female mold during the baking process.

A system for cooking and forming an edible food container includes include a bottom housing and a top housing. The bottom housing comprises a press receiver defining at least one press receptacle and the top housing comprises a press defining at least one press protrusion. The system further includes a heating element incorporated into at least one of the top housing and the bottom housing. The system also includes a frame, with the top housing being moveable relative to the bottom housing via engagement with the frame.

An automated system and method for manufacturing a cone-shaped food product holder requires the coordinated use of a forming unit, a conveyor unit and a control unit. In their combination, the forming unit rotates a conically-shaped bake form at a constant angular velocity . Simultaneously, the conveyor unit advances a bread dough strip on a conveyor belt at a constant linear velocity v, for deposit of the bread dough strip onto the bake form. In order to account for the conical configuration of the bake form, the actions of the forming unit and the conveyor unit are coordinated by the control unit. Specifically, the control unit moves the conveyor unit with a predetermined rotation relative to the forming unit to form the food product holder on the forming unit for subsequent baking.

A baking machine includes a winding device (1) for the continuous production of edible wafer rolls provided on the inside with an edible substance. The winding device has a mandrel (2) with a cylindrical winding wall (6) having an exterior winding surface (7) which is adapted for abutment and for rolling of a warm plastically deformable wafer strip and by dint of which, during operation, heat transfer takes place due to the abutment of the wafer strip. An interior of the cylindrical winding wall (6) defines a substance channel (8) for introducing the edible substance into an interior of the wafer roll, and at least one temperature-control channel (9) for guiding a temperature-control medium therethrough. The temperature-control channel (9) extends from a mounted portion (3) of the mandrel (2) into a projecting portion (4) of the mandrel (2) and back again into the mounted portion (3) of the mandrel (2).

The invention relates to a forming socket of a forming and baking machine for manufacturing of edible, biodegradable containers for hot and cold beverages and food. The forming socket (1) of the forming and baking machine, includes a body (2), in which a mold (3) is mounted, whereby a punch (4) is movably positioned in the mold (3). Between the punch (4) and the mold (3) are installed one or more forming elements, above and/or on the sides of which a production waste area (16) is formed. The forming element (15) is an integral or consisting of two arcs, conical or cylindrical ring.

The instant invention discloses an apparatus, system and method of manufacturing edible, biodegradable containers for hot and cold beverages and food.

A cone shaped waffle food product including a first side whose surface area is increased by a technical pattern in order to assure a defined adhesion at a baking plate during a production process and to provide engagement surfaces for a receiving tool, wherein the technical pattern includes bars or grooves that are respectively arranged parallel to each other; a second side whose surface area is smaller than the surface area of the first side, and wherein the second side is free from the technical pattern and provided with a design pattern.