Cooking snack foods

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10159272
APP PUB NO 20180213828A1
SERIAL NO

15423057

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A method of cooking a snack food, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing a bed comprising a plurality of particles, wherein the particles are composed of, comprise or consist of a material which is magnetic and/or electroconductive; b. heating the particles in the bed to form a cooking medium in the form of a heated bed of particles, wherein in step b the particles are heated at least partially by electromagnetic induction; c. providing a plurality of snack food precursor elements in the cooking medium thereby to cook the elements to form a plurality of cooked snack food pieces, wherein the heated particles transfer heat into the elements by thermal conduction; and d. separating the plurality of snack food pieces and the cooking medium.

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FRITO-LAY NORTH AMERICA INC7701 LEGACY DRIVE PLANO TX 75024

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Godfroid, Robert McKinney, US 13 20
Kozman, Austin Jon Dallas, US 4 1
Lawton, Simon John Leicestershire, GB 3 1
Levine, Leon Albuquerque, US 6 38
Modhwadia, Roshni Leicester, GB 2 1
Stanley-Smith, David James Derbyshire, GB 2 1

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