JPH11278552A - Frozen food received in container with inner dish container serving as lid - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide frozen food received in a container wherein an inner dish is housed inside a main container which serves as an inner dish for separately receiving a solid food material such as rice and solid soup and which can be used as a lid for the container at the time of cooking with heat. SOLUTION: The frozen food received in a container comprises a main container 1 and an inner dish 2 for partitioning between solid soup 4 and solid food 3 in the main container 1. An upper portion of the inner dish 2 is removably mounted on or fitted to an upper side wall inside the main container 1, while the inner dish 2 is hanging in the main container 1. In addition, the inner dish 2 is a portion which is removably mounted or fitted at the time of thawing and has a structure which can be mounted on or fitted to the main container 1 as a lid.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a frozen food in a container. More specifically, the present invention relates to a frozen food in a container in which the inner dish container serves as a lid.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Various ready-to-cook frozen foods such as udon, buckwheat, and ramen are known. For example, in the case of frozen udon, one-time dashi juice of udon is solidified in a container, udon and ingredients are placed on the solid juice, and the container is hermetically sealed and frozen.

[0003] However, in order to put the non-frozen udon noodles and ingredients on the frozen and solidified dashi juice, the frozen solid dashi juice partially returns to liquid at that time, and the liquid dashi juice becomes udon noodles and ingredients. And the color of the dashi juice reaches udon noodles and utensils. Even after the dashi juice, udon noodles, utensils, etc. are frozen and sealed, they may be exposed to the room temperature atmosphere during transportation, and the same problem as above occurs at that time. When such coloring occurs, not only does the waist and tenacity of the noodles deteriorate, but also the appearance (aesthetic appearance) at the time of opening is poor. Such a problem applies not only to frozen udon but also to all frozen foods manufactured and sold in liquid state such as dashi juice and noodles, cooked rice and the like in a frozen pack state.

[0004] Therefore, nashi soup, rice,
In order to prevent coloring on ingredients etc., frozen solid dashi juice,
A frozen food having a configuration in which a partition plate is provided between noodles, cooked rice, ingredients, and the like is known (JP-A-9-47266).
Such partitions are pulled out of the container before cooking and are immediately discarded. This is not preferable from the viewpoint of effective use of resources.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides a frozen food in a container in which the color of the dashi juice does not reach the noodles, ingredients and the like, and the material can be effectively used. The purpose is to:

[0006]

That is, the present invention comprises a main body container, and a middle plate container for separating solid dashi juice and solid food in the main body container. It is configured to be placed or fitted so as to be able to be taken out, and the middle dish container is erected in the main body container, and the middle dish container is placed or fitted at the time of thawing cooking, as a lid. The present invention relates to a frozen food in a container having a structure that can be placed or fitted on a main body container.

[0007] The inner dish container has a structure in which the inner dish container is removably placed or fitted on the upper part of the inner side wall of the main body container. It is characterized by a structure that can be erected and can hold the middle dish container as a lid at the top of the main body vessel during cooking.

The present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG.
Reference numeral 1 denotes a main body container, 2 denotes a medium dish container, 3 denotes a solid food material, 4 denotes a solid dashi juice, and 5 denotes a solid food implement. In the present invention, the solid food material 3 and the solid food utensil 5 are collectively referred to as “solid food”.

The main body container 1 is made of a metal container such as aluminum, paper or resin such as polystyrene, polyethylene, crystalline polyethylene terephthalate or a resin foam material. The shape is exemplified by a cup type in FIG. Various desired shapes such as (for example, main body container 1 in FIG. 3) may be adopted. For metal containers,
Suitable for open fire cooking. In the case of a resin or resin foam material container, it is preferable to use a container suitable for microwave cooking. In FIG. 1, a step is provided on an upper portion of an inner side wall of the main body container 1 so that the inner dish container 2 can be placed on the main body container 1. Although FIG. 1 shows a structure having two steps, one step may be provided or three or more steps may be provided as desired.

The inner container 2 can be made of the same material as the main container, and has a cup shape shallower than the main container 1.
A circular handle is formed around the upper part. In the middle container 2, the convex portion of the middle plate container is turned downward, and the handle of the middle plate container 2 is placed on a step above the main body container 1.
Is placed on the upper part of the inner side wall of the main body container 1, the inner dish container 2 is bridged inside the main body container 1, and the inner dish container 2 does not contact the solid dashi juice 4. By this mounting and erection structure, the inner dish container 2 does not fall to the bottom inside the container body 1 and the inner dish container 2 is held in the container body 2 in a state of not contacting the solid dashi juice 4. Become. Further, according to this mounting structure, the middle dish container 2 can be placed on the main body container 1 by inverting the middle dish container at the time of thawing cooking.
Can be placed on top as a lid.

A thread or a pull-out piece may be attached to a part of the upper handle of the inner container 2, and the inner plate container 2 accommodated in the main container 1 may be easily taken out of the main container 1 by pulling it. . When the inner plate container 2 is turned over and the container body 1 is covered, when a drawn piece is unnecessary, it is effective to make a cut in the drawn piece to make it easy to remove it.

The structure in which the main body container 1 and the inner plate container 2 are placed or fitted so as to be able to be taken out is as shown in FIG.
A concave handle having a substantially semicircular cross section is provided in the upper portion of the inner side wall of the main body container 1, and a convex handle having a substantially semicircular cross section that can be fitted into the concave portion is provided around the upper portion of the inner container 2. A fitting structure in which the protrusion is fitted may be used. Also in this case, when the inner plate container is turned over, the main container 1 and the inner plate container 2 can be fitted together, the inner plate container 2 can be installed in the main container 1, and the inner plate container 2 is taken out and turned over. Can be placed on the container body 1 as a lid. In the case of such a structure, the main body container is covered with the hermetically sealed lid by the inner plate container 2, so that when the contents are heated, one or more pinholes are formed in the inner plate container 2 as an escape path for steam. It is better to keep.

Returning to FIG. 1, the description will be continued. When the frozen food in the container of the present application is manufactured, first, liquid cooked dashi juice, for example, ramen juice, udon juice, buckwheat juice, somen juice, curry sauce, pasta sauce, etc. An appropriate amount of Chinese bowl and parent and child bowls are filled and frozen to form solid dashi juice 4. Freezing can be performed in about 30 minutes at a temperature of about −40 ° C., for example. In the present invention, solid dashi juice includes both solidified dashi juice without ingredients and dashi juice containing ingredients, i.e., solidified ingredient juice. I'm using

Separately, food materials, for example, noodles such as udon, soba or ramen boiled after making noodles, or cooked rice, and food utensils, for example, green onions,
Seasoned ingredients such as baked pigs and kamaboko are served and frozen to form solid foods. This freezing is performed, for example, at about -4.
At a temperature of 0 ° C., it can be performed in about 30 minutes.

Next, a medium dish container 2 on which solid food is served
Is placed on the top inside the main body container 1, and the inner dish container 2 is erected on the solid dashi juice 4 in the container main body 1 and packaged. As shown in FIG. 5, the packaging includes a top seal (FIG. 5 (1)), a top shrink (FIG. 5 (2)), and a whole shrink (FIG. 5).
(3)) can be performed by applying a method already used.

FIGS. 1 and 3 show a configuration in which solid dashi juice 4 is placed in main body container 1 and solid food is placed in middle dish container 2. A configuration in which the solid dashi juice 4 is put in the container 2 may be adopted.

At the time of cooking the frozen food of the present invention, first, the package is unwrapped, the middle dish container 2 is taken out, and the solid food put on the middle dish container is placed on the solid dashi juice 4. Then, the convex portion of the middle plate container 2 is turned upward, that is, the state of the middle plate container at the time of packaging is reversed, and the handle of the middle plate container 2 is placed on the step above the main body container 1. Even when the inner container is inverted, the main container 1 and the inner container 2 can be placed on the inner container. Therefore, the inner container 2 is placed on the upper part of the inner side wall of the main container 1, and the inner container is placed. 2 can be the lid of the main body container 1 (FIG. 2). In this way, heating and cooking are performed in a state where the container body is covered with the inner plate container 2. Heating cooking
Depending on the type of container, select an open flame or microwave oven. When the inner dish container 2 is used as a lid of the container body 2 in this manner,
At the time of heating cooking, since the escape of steam of the contents can be suppressed, the cooking time can be reduced, and even if a little foam blows out, the foam is taken into the space formed inside the lid,
Bubbles can be prevented from leaking out of the container body. Furthermore, when carrying the main body in a hand after cooking, it is possible to prevent hot steam from being sprayed on the face and hands, and it is also unlikely that juice spills or the like will occur.
Also, there is no need to search for and bring in another lid to keep it warm.

When the frozen food of the present invention is configured to be compatible with a microwave oven, it is preferable to use concentrated dashi juice 6 as the solid dashi juice. More preferably, as shown in FIG. 3, the middle dish container 2 has a convex central portion, on which boiled noodles and the like are placed and frozen.

In the case where the concentrated pear is used, water or hot water is poured into the container body 1 before heating and cooking in a microwave oven. After adding water and hot water, the container body 1
Cover and microwave. Thus, when microwaved using water or hot water, the cooking time is reduced. Water uses the fact that the microwave absorption capacity emitted from a microwave oven is about 4000 times that of frozen solid dashi juice. As shown in FIG. 3, the solid food frozen on the inner dish container 2 having the central convex portion has a solid inside in a concave shape, and the solid food is
The solid food can be laid flat in the container main body 1 without being affected by the steric effect of the solid concentrate dashi 6 placed on the bottom of the main body container 1, and the solid food can be uniformly placed in the microwave oven. Irradiation with microwaves can prevent thawing unevenness, and in the curved part, more water or hot water accumulates than when the solid food has no curved part and is flat, at least in the microwave oven at the beginning of thawing heating The microwaves reflected from the bottom can be efficiently absorbed and the cooking time can be reduced.

[0020]

According to the present invention, there has been provided a frozen food in a container which can be used as a lid for the inner dish container.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view of a frozen food in a container according to the present invention before cooking.

FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view of the frozen food in a container of the present invention during cooking.

FIG. 3 is a schematic sectional view of a frozen food in a container according to the present invention before cooking.

FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the frozen food in a container of the present invention during cooking.

FIG. 5 is a view for explaining a packaging form of frozen food in a container in all of (1), (2), and (3).

[Explanation of symbols]

 1: body container, 2: medium dish container, 3: solid food material, 4: solid dashi juice, 5: solid food utensil, 6: solid concentrated dashi

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A main body container, and a middle plate container for separating solid dashi juice and solid food in the main body container, wherein the upper portion of the middle plate container is removably mounted or fitted on an inner side wall of the main body container. The intermediate dish container has a structure in which it is erected in the main body container, and the intermediate dish container is placed or fitted on the main body container as a lid at the placing or fitting portion described above at the time of thawing cooking. Frozen food in a container, characterized by having a structure that can be used. 2. A main container, and an inner plate container for separating solid dashi juice and solid food in the main container, wherein the upper portion of the inner plate container is removably fitted on the inner side wall of the main container. The dish container has a structure erected in the main body container, and the middle dish container has a pinhole, and has a structure that can be fitted on the main body container as a lid at the fitting portion at the time of thawing cooking. Frozen food in a container, characterized by having. 3. The frozen food according to claim 1, wherein the main body container and the inner container are made of paper, resin, or foamed resin compatible with a microwave oven.