Abstract: A process for cooking a food product in a treatment chamber is shown, wherein the treatment chamber having two opposite walls each forming an electrode. The process comprises the steps of: (a) placing the food product, optionally in a surrounding liquid, in direct contact with the electrodes; and (b) applying electric pulses generated by a pulsed electric field generator to the electrodes such that the food product is subjected to a pulsed electric field having a field strength of 10-180 V/cm. The total cooking time is 0.5-1000 seconds. Preferably, the number of pulses n is 1-2000000 and the pulses each have a duration ?i of 1-20000 ?seconds. The food product and, if present, the surrounding liquid, has an electric conductivity of 0.01-10 S/m. Also provided is a cooking system suitable for cooking a food product according to the process.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 14, 2015
Date of Patent:
February 14, 2017
Assignee:
IXL Netherlands B.V.
Inventors:
Govert Van Oord, Johannes Theodorus Maria Roelofs
Abstract: A process for cooking a food product in a treatment chamber is disclosed, wherein the treatment chamber comprises two opposite walls each forming an electrode. The process comprises the steps of: (a) placing the food product, optionally in a surrounding liquid, in direct contact with the electrodes; and (b) applying electric pulses generated by a pulsed electric field generator to the electrodes such that the food product is subjected to a pulsed electric field having a field strength of 10-180 V/cm. The total cooking time is 0.5-1000 seconds. Preferably, the number of pulses n is 1-2000000 and the pulses each have a duration ?i of 1-20000 ?seconds. The food product and, if present, the surrounding liquid, has an electric conductivity of 0.01-10 S/m. Also provided is a cooking system suitable for cooking a food product according to the process.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 14, 2015
Publication date:
July 21, 2016
Applicant:
IXL Netherlands B.V.
Inventors:
Govert VAN OORD, Johannes Theodorus Maria ROELOFS
Abstract: A process for batch-wise cooking of a food product using a pulsed electric field and a cooking system suitable for cooking a food product according to such process.