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

FIELD: food-processing industry, public catering enterprises and trade. SUBSTANCE: method involves selecting culinary receipts of several food dishes having single generic name; determining weight of each product component for each food dish; determining weight P_j of selected ready dishes; setting weight p of one ready portion of dish; determining number of portions n_j in each ready j-dish; determining weight (p_i,j)₁ of all i-natural product components of j-dishes per one ready dish portion; determining weight p_i,min of i-product micro module of natural product; determining values of multiplicity coefficients K_ij of all product components (p_i,j)₁ of j-dish; preliminarily preparing natural product components; cutting in accordance with culinary receipts; drying product components which may not be kept for long time at positive temperature while preliminarily setting percentage of moisture which must be removed by drying process; determining weight of product micro module of dried components (p_k,min)_c.; weighing product components in accordance with weight of micro modules; packing in individual packages and sealing; providing package of food product component of predetermined weight from product micro module of i-product component; providing sets of product modules in accordance with culinary receipts for each j-semi-finished food dish; packing sets of product modules in required amounts of ready dish portions, which are packed in individual packages of product modules; directing for storage at positive temperatures not in the excess of 40 C or for sale. EFFECT: provision for mechanized and automated processes for obtaining of semi-finished food dishes and reduced labor consumption for manufacture thereof. 4 tbl, 1 ex