JP5250648B2 - Method for producing noodle packaging with frozen rice cake - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for producing a noodle package with a frozen rice cake, which is provided with a frozen rice cake such as spaghetti, udon, Japanese soba and Chinese noodles at a low cost.

  Traditionally, in the production and distribution of frozen noodles such as spaghetti, udon, Japanese soba and Chinese noodles, mainly for restaurants, packaging in units of one to several meals is appropriate for handling and hygiene management. However, the noodles are generally produced by the following method.

  That is, as shown in FIG. 2, first, after the noodles produced in the noodle making process are boiled in the boiled process with the required individual meal unit, in the shaping process, they are suitable for hot water roasting during packaging and cooking. In order to reshape and freeze it, it is put into a synthetic resin lunch box-shaped special tray (form) made of synthetic resin with water outflow holes, and the special tray is collected in a container and batch-type or By continuously sending it to the freezing process with a conveyor, the noodles are frozen while being put in the dedicated tray, and the frozen noodles obtained in the packaging process are subjected to a plate removing process for removing the frozen noodles from the dedicated tray. A single meal unit or a plurality of meal units are hermetically packaged with a synthetic resin packaging bag or the like, and stored or carried out to a user.

On the other hand, the special tray from which the frozen noodles have been removed in the above-described depressing process is sent to the cleaning / disinfecting process for reuse, and the dedicated tray that has been cleaned / disinfected is returned to the shaping process and boiled in the boil process. Reused to shape the noodles.
In this way, when boiled noodles are shaped with a dedicated tray and frozen, handling of subsequent products can be simplified. The size of boiled noodles to be shaped with this special tray is usually set to 15-16cm in length, 12-13cm in width, and 2-3cm in thickness according to the size of the hot water bath at the cooking site such as a restaurant Is done. It is the same size when using a steamer defroster.

  The production of noodles with frozen rice cake by the above-described processes is generally carried out continuously by automatic or semi-automatic equipment. However, when the usefulness of each of the above series of processes is reconsidered, there are the following problems. That is, in the conventional frozen noodle manufacturing process, the noodles that have been boiled are shaped using a reusable dedicated tray, but the dedicated tray is cleaned and disinfected each time it is used. Therefore, not only does a large amount of washing water be used and a disinfectant is required, but a large amount of money is also required for the treatment of sewage after washing, resulting in increased running costs.

  Moreover, in order to clean and sterilize the special tray, it is necessary to secure a relatively large facility space and work space in the noodle production line with the freezer, and at the same time, equipment for cleaning and disinfection is installed there, Furthermore, it is necessary to provide equipment for returning the cleaned and disinfected special tray to the shaping process. Therefore, it is necessary to make a relatively large investment in the manufacturing equipment.

  On the other hand, boiled noodles have been used to make frozen noodles by freezing them in a food bag made of synthetic resin in individual food units. Generally, frozen noodles are sealed by sealing the mouth of the food bag. Otherwise, the noodles will dry quickly and the value of food will be lost by the drying while allowing long-term storage by freezing. Therefore, the mouth of the food bag is sealed and sealed. However, in that case, when cooking at a restaurant or the like, it is necessary to break the mouth of the sealed food bag with a knife such as scissors and take out the frozen noodles, and the frozen noodles adhere to the inner surface of the food bag It is necessary to peel it off because it is customary, and this greatly affects the work efficiency when cooking a large amount of noodles according to the customer's request, and it is easy to make frozen noodles from the cooking site There is a need for packaging that can be removed.

  Moreover, when cooking the above in a restaurant or the like, when the mouth of the sealed food bag is broken with scissors etc. and the frozen noodles are taken out, the mouth piece of the bag broken by mistake may be mixed into the cooked noodles. There is also a problem that the customer's reputation is lost due to receiving complaints from foreign customers.

  The technical problem of the present invention is that there is no need to use a dedicated tray for shaping the frozen noodles into a certain shape suitable for packaging and hot water bathing. This eliminates the need for cleaning and disinfecting processes, reduces the capital investment, and makes it easier and more efficient to remove noodles with a freezer for cooking, while eliminating the need to break the mouth of the food bag. The mouth piece of the broken bag is not likely to be mixed in the cooked noodles, and of course, the drying of the noodles during frozen storage is suppressed, and as a result, the above-mentioned problems of the prior art can be solved all at once. It is providing the manufacturing method of a package.

In order to solve the above problems, according to the present invention, as a food bag made of a synthetic resin and having heat resistance and cold resistance, one end is opened, and the bag is shaped like a noodle with a rectangular parallelepiped frozen rice cake to be manufactured. Using a frozen candy having the above-mentioned shape and having a length that can close the mouth of the bag containing noodles by folding the mouth side, There is provided a method for producing a noodle package with a frozen rice cake, which is characterized in that the noodle package is obtained.
A. A process of cooking a unit amount of noodles in a bowl and storing it in the above-mentioned synthetic resin food bag.
B. Shaping the noodles that can be deformed into a fluid state by raising them into the above-mentioned shape in a food bag and folding them back without sealing the mouth side of the food bag so that the mouth of the bag is held closed. Process.
C. A freezing step in which the noodles contained in the food bag are frozen while being held in the molded shape.
D. A packaging process in which multiple meals of noodles are sealed and packaged with a packaging material in frozen persimmons frozen in individual meal units.

  In a preferred embodiment of the method for producing a frozen noodle package according to the present invention, the synthetic resin food bag is formed into a cylindrical shape having one end opened and the other end closed, and the one end opened is boiled noodle. When the noodles are put in a bowl and flattened to a predetermined thickness when the noodles are flattened to a predetermined thickness, It is shaped into a thickness, and the width and thickness have a dimensional relationship that can be passed through the caliber of a general-purpose hot water rice cracker, and the opened mouth side of the boiled noodle food bag formed in the width and thickness is folded. Thus, the length of the cuboid shaped shape of the noodle is set with the frozen rice cake.

  Moreover, when the inner surface of the food bag in the noodle wrapping body is hung with the above-mentioned frozen rice cake toward the hot water bath in the hot water, the heat between the hot water and the frozen noodles on the inner surface of the food bag The frozen portion is heated and formed on a sliding surface on which the noodle slides.

  In the method for producing a noodle package with a frozen koji having the above-described configuration, the function of the dedicated tray is preserved without using a known dedicated tray for shaping the frozen noodle into a fixed shape suitable for packaging and hot water bathing. Because it is made of a synthetic resin and heat resistant and cold resistant food bag, that is, as described below, when boiled noodles are put into the food bag, the boiled noodles are simply boiled by the food bag itself. Since it can be shaped into a predetermined shaping shape, it is necessary for a plate removing process for removing frozen noodles from a dedicated tray, a cleaning / disinfecting process for reusing the dedicated tray, and a process for returning the dedicated tray to the shaping process. It is not necessary to provide facilities and work spaces associated therewith, and the amount of capital investment can be reduced.

  The food bag has an opening at one end and a bag width matched to the shape of the noodles in a rectangular parallelepiped frozen rice cake to be manufactured, and the mouth of the bag is closed by folding the mouth side, thereby The boiled noodles housed in the bag are formed so as to have the length of the above-mentioned shape. More specifically, the food bag is configured as a cylindrical shape that is open at one end and closed at the other end. Put the noodles, put the noodles flat on the workbench with the bag in the food bag, flatten the noodles with the boil to a predetermined thickness, spread the noodles to the full width of the bag, and if the thickness is large When the noodles are leveled in the length direction of the food bag that is shaped to make the thickness substantially constant, the boiled noodles are shaped into the width and thickness of the molded shape in the bag. Further, in this case, the boiled noodles are fed into the food bag in a unit amount of the individual meal. Therefore, if the width and thickness of the boiled noodles are made almost constant as described above, naturally the bag in the cylindrical food bag The length of the boiled noodles in the longitudinal direction of the food bag is also almost constant. Therefore, by folding the open mouth side of the food bag, the boiled noodles in the food bag are shaped into a rectangular parallelepiped shape of the required length. Can do.

In addition, the food bag in the noodle package with the above-mentioned frozen rice cake is folded without sealing the mouth side, so that when the one end side of the bag is suspended toward the hot water bath in the hot water, The frozen portion between the frozen noodles on the inner surface of the food bag is heated by heat, and the noodles will slide down, in particular, the frozen jar that contains the inner surface of the bag when the frozen portion starts to melt. By forming the noodles on a smooth sliding surface that is easy to slide down, it becomes easier to take out the noodles from the food bag with a freezer for cooking.
Furthermore, the width and thickness in the shape of the noodles in the above-mentioned frozen rice cake have a dimensional relationship that allows the noodles to pass through the diameter of the general-purpose hot water rice cake with the frozen rice cake, so that the noodles can be introduced into the hot water rice cake. It becomes easier.

  According to the method for producing a noodle package of the present invention, which is described in detail above, a food bag is used in place of the dedicated tray for shaping the frozen noodle into a fixed shape. There is no need for a cleaning and disinfection process for reusing the process and the dedicated tray, the capital investment can be reduced, and the noodles can be removed from the food bag for cooking with a frozen rice cake. Eliminates the need to break the mouth, making it simple and highly efficient, and at the same time eliminating the risk of the mouth piece of the broken bag getting mixed into the cooked noodles. A method of manufacturing a body can be provided.

It is a perspective view which shows the state which stored the boiled noodle in the food bag in the manufacturing method of the noodle package by the frozen rice bran of this invention. It is process drawing for demonstrating the manufacturing method of a noodle package with the conventional frozen rice cake.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 exemplifies the structure of a noodle package with a frozen rice cake produced by the production method of the present invention. In this method of manufacturing a frozen noodle package, first, the raw noodles produced in the noodle making process are boiled for each unit of meal in the next boil process, and the noodle 1 raised in the boil is In a state that can be deformed into a fluid state by softening by raising, as shown in FIG. 1, a transparent food bag 2 made of a synthetic resin and having heat resistance and cold resistance for each unit of food, for example, food made of polyethylene or the like It is accommodated in a bag and molded into the required molding shape described below (shaping step).

  The food bag 2 is configured to have a function equivalent to that of the conventional dedicated tray (form), and is manufactured as a cylindrical shape having one end opened at the mouth 2a and the other end closed at the seal 2b. A rectangular parallelepiped-shaped frozen rice cake having a bag width adapted to the shape of the noodle and closed without sealing the mouth of the bag 2 by folding back on the mouth 2a side, so that it is accommodated inside the bag 2. The boiled noodles 1 are formed so as to have the length of the above-mentioned shape.

  Since the boiled noodle 1 to be fed into the food bag 2 is a unit of a single meal, after the food bag 2 has a bag width matched to the shape of the noodle with a frozen rice bowl, When the noodles 1 are leveled to a substantially constant thickness, the length of the noodles 1 in the longitudinal direction of the bag in the cylindrical food bag 2 becomes substantially constant. The folding position of 2a can be set in advance so that the length of the noodles 1 is almost constant, and the shape of the boiled noodles 1 is finished to the same shape as when using a conventional dedicated tray. Can do. Further, if the folding position is determined, the total length of the food bag 2 can be determined by setting the folding length to about several centimeters.

  The configuration of the food bag 2 and the storage of the boiled noodles 1 in the bag will be described in more detail. The food bag 2 configured in the cylindrical shape is in a state that can be deformed into a fluid state by lifting with a broom. A unit amount of noodles is fed from the inlet on one end side, but when the food bag 2 is placed flat on the work table as appropriate, the boiled noodles are in a state that can be deformed into a fluid state by raising the boil, The noodles are spread over the full width of the food bag 2, and the boiled noodle-containing food bag 2 is flattened. In the case where the thickness is large, the noodles are leveled in the length direction of the cylindrical food bag 2 to make the thickness almost constant. At the same time, it is molded to the desired length. In this state, by folding the opened mouth side of the food bag 2 downward, the boiled noodles 1 accommodated in the food bag 2 can be formed into a rectangular shape having a required length.

  The boiled noodles 1 with the above-mentioned thickness being made almost constant are frozen in their shape and made into a final packaging form, so the step of making the thickness of the boiled noodles almost constant is important. . The thickness of the boiled noodle 1 can be manually set. For example, when the noodles are arranged in a freezing container or a freezing conveyor in a food bag, or transferred to a process of freezing the boiled noodles. In this stage, a mechanism for mechanically lightly pressing only the noodles 1 with a large thickness of the boil, specifically, a means for leveling the thickness by pressing the noodles 1 with a weak elastic force can be provided.

  Preferable examples of the manufacturing process of frozen noodles produced based on the present invention are mainly the above-mentioned noodle making process for producing raw noodles, the boiled process for boiling it for each individual meal unit, and the boiled process The noodles that can be transformed into a fluid state by boiled are put into a food bag, and the noodles put into the food bag are folded into the above molded shape without sealing the mouth side of the food bag, A shaping step for holding the mouth of the bag closed, a freezing step for freezing the noodles contained in the food bag while maintaining the molded shape, and a frozen noodle in a frozen bag containing food bags. A packaging process for hermetically sealing the plurality of meals with a synthetic resin packaging material to prevent freezing and drying, and a shipping process for storing and transporting the product hermetically sealed with the packaging material in a cardboard box.

  When the manufacturing process according to the embodiment of the present invention described above is compared with the conventional manufacturing process of FIG. 2, the essential difference is that a special tray for shaping frozen noodles into a fixed shape suitable for packaging and hot water bathing is used. Therefore, there is no need for a plate removing process for removing frozen noodles from the dedicated tray and a cleaning / disinfecting process for reuse of the dedicated tray, thereby reducing the capital investment and the use of frozen noodles for cooking. The removal of the mouth of the food bag is not necessary and the mouth piece of the broken bag is not likely to be mixed into the cooked noodles, and of course the drying of the noodles during freezing storage As a result, the above-described problems of the prior art can be solved all at once.

1 Boiled noodle 2 Food bag 2a Mouth part 2b Seal part

Claims (3)

As a food bag made of synthetic resin and having heat resistance and cold resistance, one end is opened, the width of the bag is adjusted to the shape of the noodles in a rectangular parallelepiped freezer to be manufactured, and the above shape is formed by folding the mouth side Frozen rice bran having a length that can close the mouth of the bag containing noodles in the shape of the frozen rice cake, and obtaining a noodle package with the frozen rice cake through the following steps A to D A method for manufacturing a package.
A. A process of cooking a unit amount of noodles in a bowl and storing it in the above-mentioned synthetic resin food bag.
B. Shaping the noodles that can be deformed into a fluid state by raising them into the above-mentioned shape in a food bag and folding them back without sealing the mouth side of the food bag so that the mouth of the bag is held closed. Process.
C. A freezing step in which the noodles contained in the food bag are frozen while being held in the molded shape.
D. A packaging process in which multiple meals of noodles are sealed and packaged with a packaging material in frozen persimmons frozen in individual meal units. The above-mentioned synthetic resin food bag has a cylindrical shape with one end opened and the other end closed, and the one end opened is boiled with noodles,
When the cylindrical food bag is flattened to a predetermined thickness by placing a bowl of noodles on a table and flattened to a predetermined thickness, the noodles are shaped into the width and thickness of the molded shape in the frozen bowl. In addition, the width and thickness have a dimensional relationship that can be passed through the caliber of a general-purpose hot water bath,
By folding the open mouth side in the food bag of boiled noodles formed in the width and thickness, the length of the cuboid shaped shape of the noodles in the frozen rice bowl is set,
The method for producing a noodle package of the frozen rice cake according to claim 1. When the food bag in the noodle wrapping body is suspended in the above-mentioned frozen rice cake, the freezing portion between the frozen noodles on the inner surface of the food bag is heated by the heat of the hot water Being formed on the sliding surface where the noodles slide down,
The manufacturing method of the noodle package by the frozen rice cake of Claim 2 characterized by the above-mentioned.

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