METHOD FOR FAST COOKING OF COMPLEX OF COURSES Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: cooking. SUBSTANCE: the method consists in the fact that prepared dry concentrated fast-cooking food- stuffs, from which the first, second and third courses may be made, are placed in a sealed block of sections (hereinafter referred to as a set of dishes) separated from one another by partitions. Hot liquid is flooded into the sections with the first and second courses are interconnected and made as communicating vessels, then after flooding and saturation of the second course with moisture the whole excess liquid from the second course section flows to the first course section. The bottoms in the sections of the second and first courses may be made at the same levels, or the bottom of the first course section may be below the bottom of the second course sections. At cooking of a complex of courses use may be made of the sets of dishes of two modifications: a set of dishes, which both at cooking of courses and at consumption is positioned in the horizontal plane only, or a set of dishes, which at cooking of the complex of courses originally at flooding of hot liquid and during a certain time delay is positioned in the horizontal plane, and then it is transferred to the vertical position; in this case a certain time delay is given and it is returned to the original position. At consumption of food, irrespective of the modification of the sets of dishes used, the covers above the sections of each course, beginning with the section of the first course, etc., are preliminarily opened. EFFECT: enhanced convenience of cooking and consumption of the complex of courses in individual conditions, in the sphere of public catering, as well as in uncomfortable conditions. 7 dwg