JP3399692B2 - Cooking equipment for cooked rice - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for cooking cooked rice in individual meal containers which can be easily served by heating.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, cooked rice is cooked by putting uncooked ingredients consisting of rice, grains and water in a cauldron and then heating the cauldron. . After cooking, a certain amount of cooked rice produced from these uncooked materials is weighed, refilled in a small container for individual consumption, sealed, and shipped. A small container for individual meals is called an individual meal container, which is filled with the amount of one meal for an individual, and has good hygiene.

[0003]

By the way, in the above-described method for producing cooked rice, it is necessary to refill cooked rice from a cauldron into a container in a series of steps, which results in unnecessary labor. There was a problem of this. There is also a problem that equipment costs increase because a cauldron is prepared. Further, as another cooking means, a method has also been considered in which, before cooking, an uncooked rice grain containing a certain amount of water is charged into an individual food container and the individual food container is steamed. However, in this means, when rice grains are loaded into the individual meal container, the surface of the rice grains rises in a mountain shape, and in the steaming process, steam passing through the rice grains is not uniform and is unevenly cooked. There was also a problem that caused. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, does not require equipment costs like a cauldron, does not require refilling, and prevents steaming unevenness in the individual meal container. An object of the present invention is to provide a cooking device for preparing rice so that the surface of rice grains loaded in an individual food container is flat and then cooking.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the following means are adopted. That is, claim 1
The cooking device for cooked rice according to 1., a preparation room for preparing rice grains, and a steaming room for steaming the rice grains prepared in this preparation room,
The individual food container for charging uncooked rice grains containing a certain amount of water before cooking, and a transport device for transporting the individual food container from the preparation room to the steaming room, wherein the individual food container is The upper end is an opening so that water supplied to the opening can be discharged downward, and the rice grain is held and stored therein when the rice grain is loaded. Inside the individual food container, water is supplied to the hopper for loading the rice grains from the opening of the individual food container and water toward the opening of the individual food container in which the rice grains are loaded. It is characterized in that water supply means and water suction means for sucking and discharging the water supplied from the water supply means are provided.

The cooker for cooked rice according to claim 2 is the cooker for cooked rice according to claim 1, wherein the water supply means is above the passage of the individual food container transported by the transport device. The water supply port for the opening of the individual meal container is composed of a plurality of small holes. The cooker for cooked rice according to claim 3 is the device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the cooked rice cooker is provided in proximity to a passage of the individual meal container transported by the transport device, and is provided by the water supply means. It is characterized in that negative pressure suction means for sucking the water supplied into the individual meal container is provided.

[0006]

According to the structure of the cooked rice cooking apparatus of the first aspect, the uncooked cooked rice containing a certain amount of water is supplied into the individual food container on the carrier. At this point, a certain amount of uncooked rice with water content was loaded into the individual food container, but the surface inside the individual food container was not flat, and the center of the container was high and the circumference was low. It is in a state of excitement. next,
Water is poured into the individual food container. When this water is injected,
The surface of the uncooked rice grains in the individual food container is considerably flattened by the jet pressure of this water and the water accumulated in the upper portion of the individual food container.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the water supply means is configured to have a plurality of small holes, the water supplied to the individual meal container is jetted in a shower shape. For this reason, the surface of rice grains is considerably flattened by the water pressure and excess water. According to the configuration of claim 3, water supplied into the individual meal container is sucked by the water suction means,
As a result, excess water in the individual food container is discharged,
The surface of rice grains becomes flat.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the outline of a cooked rice cooking apparatus according to the present invention. Reference numeral 1 is a cooking apparatus, and 2 is a preparation room. The cooking device 1 is a portion for loading rice uncooked water A into the individual food container B to prepare for cooking, and the individual food container B prepared by charging rice uncooked water A into the individual food container B. Is
After cooking in the next steaming room 3, after cooking, it is placed in the post-processing room 4 and subjected to post-processing such as, for example, covering the individual meal container B with a lid.

As shown in FIG. 2, the individual meal container B is, for example, a container of a size large enough to accommodate about 200 grams of cooked rice, the upper end of which is an opening and the bottom wall is
One or more holes 8 are provided so that the excess water in the individual eating container can be removed by suction from the bottom.

As shown in FIG. 1, the apparatus comprises a preparation room 2,
A transport device 5 for transporting the individual container B through the steaming chamber 3 and the post-treatment chamber 4 surrounded by the box-shaped wall portion 6 is provided, and from the carry-in port (left side in the figure) of the preparation chamber 2 of the device 1. The individual food container is placed on the carrier device 5. In the preparation room 2,
A hopper (weighing hopper) 10 with a weighing device for charging a fixed amount of water-containing uncooked rice grains A into an individual meal container B, a nozzle 11 (water supply means) for injecting water into the individual meal container B,
A suction device 12 (negative pressure suction means) for sucking water is provided.

The hopper 10 with a weighing device serves to weigh a certain amount of hydrated uncooked rice grains A and load the hydrated uncooked grains A into the individual meal container B. The water injection nozzle 11 is
This is a device for injecting water (excess water) onto the upper surface of the hydrated uncooked rice grains A charged by the hopper 10, and injecting a fixed amount of water into the individual meal container A. The water is injected by pouring a fixed amount of water into the container A. In this case, a plurality of small holes are formed at the tip of the nozzle so that water can be injected into the individual eating container in a shower shape. The suction device 12 is provided with a negative pressure source and a pipe connected to this negative pressure source at the lower part of the conveyor net of the transport device 5 in which the container A is transported, and the opening of the pipe is an individual food container. It is arranged at the bottom of the B passage.

Next, a method of cooking uncooked water-containing rice grain A using this apparatus will be described. This apparatus 1 uses the above-mentioned water-containing uncooked rice grains. Here, the water-containing uncooked rice grains, in the pre-cooking stage, put uncooked rice grains that do not contain water in a large container with sufficient water, hold at a constant temperature for a certain time, and remove excess water. can get. Prior to cooking, the moisture content of uncooked rice grains is measured to ensure that it is within the prescribed moisture content range. Thus, after the water content is confirmed, the water-containing uncooked rice grains are loaded into the weighing hopper 10 of the cooking device 1.

The carrying device 5 is operated, and the individual meal container B is placed on the carrying-in device 5 through its carry-in port. When the individual meal container B moves under the weighing hopper 10, from the weighing hopper 10, the water-containing uncooked rice grains A weighed in a fixed amount are loaded into the individual meal container B. The hydrated uncooked rice grain A loaded
It becomes a state in which it rises in a mountain shape that is high in the center inside the individual food container B and low in the periphery.

Next, when the container A moves below the water injection nozzle 11, a certain amount of water is injected onto the uncooked rice grain A that has been charged. At this time, a certain amount of pressurized water is jetted and injected. By this injection of water, the surface of the water-containing uncooked rice grains in the container A is charged from the weighing hopper 10 by the spray pressure of water sprayed in a shower and the water accumulated on the upper portion of the individual meal container B. It becomes considerably flat compared to the surface at the time when

On the other hand, when water is injected, excess water begins to flow out from the hole 8 on the bottom surface of the individual eating container B and the suction device 1
2 sucks away excess water. When the surface of the untreated rice grain A is made flat in the stage of the preparation room, the flatness is preserved even if it is cooked with steam in the steam room of the next step.

The water added to the container A by the nozzle 11 is not water necessary for cooking, but water for flattening the surface of the uncooked rice in the container, that is, surplus water. Excess water is sufficiently removed by suction. By using this cooking device, uncooked rice grains can be cooked without using a cauldron, and by using a weighing hopper, a certain amount of cooked rice can be charged into individual containers. it can. Furthermore, after the uncooked rice grains are loaded into the individual food container, water is poured in and the excess water is sucked in from the bottom surface to make the surface of the cooked rice in the individual food container flat and After cooking, there was no unevenness in cooking and it was possible to perform cooking with a uniform level of cooked rice in appearance.

[0017]

According to the present invention, in the preparation room of the cooking apparatus for cooked rice according to claim 1, a hopper for charging rice grains into the individual food container through the opening of the individual food container and a rice hopper for charging the rice grains are installed. A water supply means for supplying water toward the opening (9) of the individual food container and a water suction means for sucking and discharging the water supplied from the water supply means are provided. Therefore, it is possible to cook a certain amount of cooked rice homogeneously without using a cauldron and with the surface of the cooked rice in the individual meal container being flat. The water supply means of the cooker for cooked rice according to claim 2 is installed above the passage of the individual food container conveyed by the transfer device, and the water supply port for the opening of the individual food container is formed from a plurality of small holes. It is configured. Therefore, the surface of the uncooked rice grains in the individual meal container can be flattened by the water pressure and the storage of excess water. The cooked rice cooking apparatus according to the third aspect is provided with negative pressure suction means for sucking water. Therefore, it is possible to suck and remove the excess water injected into the individual food container within a short time, and the surface of the uncooked rice grains becomes completely flat by this suction, and it is possible to cook uniformly. Moreover, the surface of cooked rice becomes flat.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a configuration of a cooking apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view and a bottom view of an individual meal container used in the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

A rice grains B Individual food container 1 cooking equipment 2 preparation room 3 steaming room 5 Conveyor 10 Weighing hopper 11 nozzles (water supply means) 12 Water suction device (negative pressure suction means)

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (56) References JP 62-96048 (JP, A) JP 64-10953 (JP, A) JP 5-115365 (JP, A) JP 5- 337381 (JP, A) Actual public 4-51598 (JP, Y2) Actual public Sho 62-3034 (JP, Y1) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) A47J 27/16 A23L 1 /Ten

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A preparation room (2) for preparing rice grains (A)
And a steaming room (3) for steaming rice grains (A) prepared in this preparation room, and an individual meal container (B) for charging uncooked rice grains (A) containing a certain amount of water before cooking And a transport device (5) for transporting the individual food container from the preparation chamber to the steaming chamber, wherein the individual food container (B) has an opening (9) at the upper end, The supplied water can be discharged downward, and when the uncooked rice grain (A) is charged, the rice grain is held and stored therein. A hopper (10) for charging the rice grains into the container from the opening of the individual food container, and water for supplying water to the opening (9) of the individual food container containing the rice grains. Rice which is provided with a supply means (11) and a water suction means (12) for sucking and discharging the water supplied from the water supply means. Class cooking apparatus. 2. The water supply means (11) is installed above a passage of the individual food container transported by the transport device (5), and a plurality of water supply ports are provided to the opening of the individual food container. 2. The small hole of claim 1
Cooker for cooked rice according to. 3. Water provided in the individual food container by the water supply means (11) is provided in the vicinity of the passage of the individual food container (B) transported by the transport device (5). The cooking apparatus for cooked rice according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising negative pressure suction means (12) for sucking.