A basting cover for maintaining a humid environment for a food product. The basting cover includes a wall, a rigid band, and a flexible handle. The wall extends with a central wall portion and a side wall portion, the central wall portion having an external surface, the side wall portion extending outward from the central wall portion to a free end. Further, the side wall portion extends with thinned portions defined therein to facilitate the side wall portion to be moveable between an expanded use position and a collapsed storage position. The rigid band extends along a central wall periphery. The flexible handle is coupled to the central wall portion such that the flexible handle is disposed in a space between an outer edge of the rigid band and the external surface of the central wall portion.

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to utilizing a sonication probe. In some embodiments, there is provided a rice cooker utilizing a sonication probe to cook rice including a rice cooker housing; a pH sensor; a temperature sensor; a viscosity sensor; a sonication probe; and a control circuit configured to control an operation of the sonication probe that causes the sonication probe to stop emitting one or more sound waves to substantially halt breakdown of amylose of the rice based on a pH value, a temperature value, and a viscosity value associated with the rice.

A method includes inserting a food item into an inner volume of a thermal container. A liquid circulating through a liquid jacket at least partially surrounding and fluidically isolated from the inner volume of the thermal container is cooled such that thermal energy from the food item is transferred to the cooled liquid. After the cooling, thermal energy from a first heating element is transferred to the liquid circulating through the liquid jacket such that thermal energy from the heated liquid is transferred to the food item. Thermal energy from a second heating element is transferred to the food item in response to a criterion being satisfied. The second heating element is different from the first heating element and is disposed in the inner volume of the thermal container.

Disclosed herein is a cooking system for cooking food, the system including a housing having a hollow interior, a lid movable relative to the housing, at least one heating element associated with one of the housing and the lid, wherein the cooking system is operable in a plurality of modes including a conductive cooking mode and a convective cooking mode, wherein in the conductive cooking mode the cooking system is operable as a conductive cooker and in the convective cooking mode the cooking system is operable as a convection cooker.

The present disclosure relates to waxy maize starches having desirably high process stability, and to methods relating to them, including methods for making and using them. One aspect of the disclosure is a waxy maize starch having an amyiopectin content in the range of 90-100%; wherein the amyiopectin fraction of the waxy maize starch has at least 28.0% DP3-12 branches: and no more than 53.0% DP 13-24 branches, no more than 16.0% DP 25-36 branches. Such waxy maize starches can be advantaged over conventional waxy maize starches in that they can have increased process stability, especially with respect to freeze-thaw stability. Methods of making the starch materials, using exo-hydrolyzing enzymes and methods of using the starch materials in food products are also described.

An objective of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a container-packed processed food with noodles, wherein the container-packed processed food with noodles is prevented from collapsing by cooking or boiling, and maintained in an appropriate firmness even after stored for a long period of time, without impairing an original taste of a raw material of the noodles.

The above objective is solved by a method of producing container-packed processed food with noodles, including: subjecting noodles to boil heat treatment and steam heat treatment, and subjecting the treated noodles to freeze treatment to obtain frozen noodles; and subjecting a container filled with the frozen noodles and a seasoning liquid containing a starch degradation product having a DE value of 4 to 18 in the range of 25% by mass and 40% by mass to heat sterilization treatment to obtain a container-packed processed food with noodles.

Apparatus and method for treating a product with steam. The apparatus includes a treatment tunnel having an entrance opening and an exit opening for introducing and discharging the product, respectively. The apparatus includes a transport unit for transporting the product from the entrance opening to the exit opening and a steam feed unit for feeding steam into the treatment tunnel. The apparatus includes one or more nozzles in communication with the steam feed unit arranged for directing a jet of steam at the product.

The present invention relates to a method for processing ginseng at an ultra high pressure, and more particularly, to a method for processing ginseng that is capable of processing the ginseng, which is immersed and packed, at an ultra high pressure. The method for processing ginseng includes the steps of: preparing washed ginseng; liquid-packaging the ginseng into a pouch; and treating the liquid-packaged ginseng with ultra-high pressure at a pressure of 550 to 600 MPa for 30 seconds to 2 minutes.

A frozen food heating apparatus is disclosed, which includes a boiler body, a water tank in communication with the boiler body, and a container for containing food, a spray nozzle in communication with both the boiler body and the water tank being provided above the container, where a first solenoid valve or an electric ball valve is provided on a connection pipeline between the water tank and the spray nozzle, the spray nozzle is in communication with an upper end of the boiler body and a second solenoid valve is provided on a connection pipeline, and the water tank is in communication with the lower end of the boiler body and a third solenoid valve is provided on a connection pipeline.

Pasta cooking appliance (1) comprising: a self-supporting cabinet (2); an open-top cooking basin (3) which is recessed on the top of the cabinet (2) and is dimensioned to contain several liters of water; heating device (4) which is adapted to selectively heat up the water contained in the cooking basin (3) so as to bring the same water to boil; an overflow drain line (15) which is structured to drain out of the cooking basin (3) the water exceeding a given maximum level (l) inside the cooking basin (3); a sensor device (20) capable of determining when a boil-over phenomenon is taking place in the cooking basin (3); and an electronic control unit (21) which communicates with said sensor device (20) and is adapted to control the heating device (4) for selectively reducing the heat-output of the same heating device (4) when a boil-over phenomenon is taking place in the cooking basin (3).