METHOD FOR OBTAINING SEMI-FINISHED FOOD DISH Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: food-processing industry. SUBSTANCE: method involves preliminarily preparing and cutting product components in accordance with culinary receipts of several food dishes of single name, having similar basic animal and/or plant components and requiring similar cutting process; weighing and packing product components to obtain product modules. Each of product modules is made in the form of package of product component containing component in an amount required for preparing even number of fractional packages of ready dish. Method further involves hermetically sealing each product module and composing sets of product modules in accordance with culinary receipts; packing each semi-finished food dish in individual package; cooling to temperature within the range of from -18 C to 5 C; directing to store house for storage at temperature within said temperature range or for realization. Components are weighed in accordance with weight of product module preliminarily set for each component. Number of product modules in semi-finished food dish package corresponds to multiplicity coefficient set for each product component of corresponding food dish and rounded-off to whole number. Method allows food dish production process to be mechanized and automated by providing composing of food dishes from basic food components similar for all dishes, each of said components being preliminarily weighed and packed in the form of universal product modules. Method may be used in public catering and trading enterprises. EFFECT: simplified manufacture process, reduced labor intensity and convenient use. 2 cl, 2 ex, 8 tbl