JP2006027665A - Food pack for cooking in microwave oven - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food pack for cooking in a microwave oven, which can be heated in a microwave oven and simultaneously allows seasoning of uncooked food. <P>SOLUTION: The food pack for cooking in a microwave oven under this invention comprises a food container body equipped with a food storage compartment, a packaged body storage compartment placed in parallel with the food storage compartment, a plurality of sections partitioning walls partitioning the food storage compartment and the packaged body storage compartment, and communicating passages provided between a plurality of sections partitioning walls communicating the food storage compartment and the packaged body storage compartment. Uncooked food is stored in the food storage compartment, while a seasoning liquid packaged body provided with a heat seal portion around its periphery is stored in the packaged body storage compartment, in a state wherein a part of the heat seal portion having one or a plurality of steam vents is directed toward the food storage compartment side, and the food container proper is packaged with a packaging body for food for cooking in a microwave oven, the packaging body having a heat seal portion with steam vents. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a food package for microwave cooking in which a food container for storing an uncooked food and a seasoning liquid package is packaged with a food package for microwave cooking.

  Recently, various types of retort foods that are prepared by vacuum packing cooked foods have been sold. However, since this type of retort food is a food with a deep flavor due to osmotic pressure, it is delicious for 1 to 10 days. However, after this period, the quality of the food deteriorates rapidly and becomes edible. There is a problem that you can't. Moreover, the conventional retort food has a problem that it cannot be stored once opened.

  In order to solve such problems, there is a food pack that can be cooked in a range without opening. This food pack is formed by covering a container main body containing cooked food with a breathable film. A food pack for cooking in which this food pack is heated with a microwave oven is disclosed in, for example, It is known as described in Japanese Patent No. 40034.

  In this food pack, the upper surface opening of the container main body in which the cooked food is stored is sealed with the first film and the second film, and the first film has a number of pressures for releasing the pressure in the container main body upward during cooking. On the other hand, the second film is formed by overlapping a part of a plurality of small films, and the pressure from the first film pressure releasing hole is released to the outside through the overlapping part. In this case, the pressure release hole is sealed in close contact with the first film.

However, this food pack solves the problems of retort food, but since the food itself is a cooked food, it must be subjected to processing steps such as seasoning. There is a problem that it takes.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-40034

  An object of the present invention is to solve the conventional problems and to provide a food pack for cooking a microwave oven that can heat a food pack in a microwave oven and at the same time season the uncooked food.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, a food pack for cooking in a microwave oven according to the present invention includes a food storage compartment, a package storage compartment arranged in parallel with the food storage compartment, a food storage compartment, and a package storage In a food container body provided with a plurality of partial partition walls partitioning the compartments, and a communication passage communicating the food storage compartments and the package storage compartments between the plurality of partial partition walls, the food storage compartments are flat. A rectangular bottom wall, an inclined side wall rising outward from three peripheral edges of the rectangular bottom wall, and the plurality of partial partition walls, and the package storage compartment is divided into the rectangular bottom wall and the partial partition wall. An inclined bottom wall that is connected and extends upwardly with respect to a position level of the rectangular bottom wall, an inclined side wall that rises outward from a lateral edge on both sides of the inclined bottom wall, and the plurality of partial partition walls. Storing uncooked food in the food storage compartment, Store the seasoning liquid package with a heat seal part at the periphery in the room, with the heat seal part with one or more steam outlets in the heat seal part facing the food storage compartment side, The food container body is configured by packaging with a food packaging for cooking by heating in a microwave oven.

  The upper surface of the food storage compartment and the upper surface of the package storage compartment are open and on the same plane, the inclined side wall of the food storage compartment and the inclined side wall of the package storage compartment are on the same plane, and a plurality of parts The partition wall has an equal distance width from the both ends of the remaining one edge of the rectangular bottom wall to the inside of the edge in parallel with each other from the rising wall and the rising wall top portion rising in parallel with each other. Consists of a falling wall that descends in parallel down to the level of the rectangular bottom wall surface, and a hollow partition wall that is formed by interconnecting the inner side of the rising wall and the inner side of the lowering wall. One or a plurality of steam outlets in the heat seal portion of the body is provided so as to protrude in the direction of the seasoning liquid in the seasoning liquid package, and the food packaging body for microwave cooking is opposed to the food storage compartment side. Characterized by providing a steam outlet on the side It is.

  The shape of one or a plurality of steam outlets in the heat seal portion of the seasoning liquid package is a triangle.

  Next, cooking of the food pack for microwave cooking according to the present invention will be described. First, the refrigerated or refrigerated food of the uncooked food, for example, raw fish, raw meat, vegetables, warm salad, fruit, rice, beans, etc. is stored in the food storage compartment of the food container body, and the package storage compartment A seasoning liquid package containing seasoning liquid for seasoning these foods, for example, boiled juice, sauce, sauce, meat juice, soup stock, dressing, mayonnaise and the like is stored. Next, the food container main body storing these uncooked food and seasoning liquid packaging bodies is packaged with a microwave oven cooking food packaging body having a steam outlet to constitute a microwave cooking food pack.

  Next, the food pack is placed in a microwave oven and heated for several minutes. As the food pack is heated in the microwave, the frozen food begins to thaw, or the refrigerated food is warmed and steam is gradually generated with the heating time, and the vapor pressure in the food package for cooking in the microwave oven is increased. Rises. At the same time, the seasoning liquid in the seasoning liquid package begins to expand due to heating. When the expansion limit is reached in the seasoning liquid package, the steam outlet of the heat seal portion of the seasoning liquid package is opened, and then the seasoning liquid package The seasoning liquid in the inside of the container quickly flows into the food storage compartment through a communication path that connects the food storage compartment and the package storage compartment. When the whole amount of the seasoning liquid flows into the food storage compartment, the food in the food storage compartment is seasoned with the seasoning liquid and cooked.

  At the final stage of heating the food pack, the steam in the food packaging for microwave cooking is at the maximum pressure, and this pressure opens the steam outlet in the heat seal portion of the food packaging, and the steam from the opened portion. Is exhausted instantaneously.

  Complementing the shortcomings of foods cooked in conventional microwave ovens, the food pack for cooking microwave ovens of the present invention is cooked while being heated in a microwave oven and seasoned to frozen or refrigerated foods that are uncooked food in the food pack. These foods can be used for food by taking them out from the microwave oven cooking package.

  A food pack for microwave cooking according to the present invention includes a food storage compartment, a package storage compartment provided in parallel with the food storage compartment, and a plurality of partial partitions that partition the food storage compartment and the package storage compartment A food container main body having a wall and a communication path that communicates the food storage compartment and the package storage compartment between the plurality of partial partition walls. The food storage compartment includes a flat rectangular bottom wall and a rectangular bottom wall. A slanted side wall that rises outward from the peripheral edge of the three sides and the plurality of partial partition walls, and the packaging body storage compartment is connected to the rectangular bottom wall and the partial partition wall, and the position level of the rectangular bottom wall An inclined bottom wall extending upwardly with respect to the inclined bottom wall, inclined side walls rising outward from lateral edges on both sides of the inclined bottom wall, and the plurality of partial partition walls. In the package compartment and heat-sealed around the periphery The packaged seasoning package is stored with the heat seal part with one or more steam outlets facing the food storage compartment, and the food container body is heated by a microwave oven. It is configured by packaging with a food packaging for cooking.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. 1 shows a food pack C for cooking a microwave oven according to the present invention. This microwave-packed food pack C is configured by packaging a food container body A with an outer package B which is a microwave-cooked food package with a steam outlet a.

  FIG. 2 shows a packaging container main body A in which uncooked food frozen or refrigerated raw fish E and seasoning liquid packaging 13 are stored. 2A is a plan view of the package container A, FIG. 2B is a cross-sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. 2A, FIG. 2C is a cross-sectional view taken along line YY of FIG. FIG. 2D is an enlarged view of the heat seal portion of the seasoning liquid packaging body 13.

  The food container main body A is molded from a heat-resistant synthetic resin material that can be heated in a microwave oven, for example, polypropylene, and rises from a flat rectangular bottom wall 1 and three rectangular edges 2 to the outside. The side wall 3, the rising inclined wall 5 that rises outward at an equal distance from the both ends of the remaining one edge 4 of the rectangular bottom wall 1 toward the center of the edge 4, and the above-described mutual from the rising vertex A downwardly inclined wall 6 inclined downward inwardly in parallel to the level of the rectangular bottom wall 1 with an equal distance width, and two hollow partial partition walls configured by connecting the rising inclined wall 5 and the downwardly inclined wall 6 7 and the two hollow partial partition walls 7 and the rectangular portion between the central portion of the remaining one edge 4 of the rectangular bottom wall 1 and the hollow partial partition wall 7. Bottom wall 8 extending in parallel with the bottom wall An inclined bottom wall 10 connected to the end of the bottom wall 8 extending in parallel and the lower edge 9 of the hollow partial partition wall 7 and extending upward with respect to the position of the rectangular bottom wall 1, and an inclined bottom A communication passage G having a packaging body containing compartment F composed of inclined side walls 12 rising from the lateral side edges 11 on both sides of the wall 10 and communicating the food compartment D and the compartment F Have

  The outer package B is formed from a heat-resistant synthetic resin material that can be heated and used in a microwave oven, for example, a biaxially stretched film, polypropylene, etc., and the food container body A and the entire food container body are hermetically wrapped around A heat seal part is provided, and a steam outlet a is provided in the heat seal part facing the food storage compartment D in the heat seal part of the outer package B.

  Raw food E which is uncooked food is stored in the food storage compartment D of the food container main body A, the seasoning liquid packaging body 13 and the heat seal portion 14 provided with the quick peeling part H of the seasoning liquid packaging body are provided in the food storage compartment. After being stored in the inclined bottom wall 10 of the package housing compartment F toward the D side, the food container body A is sealed with an outer package to constitute a food pack C for cooking in a microwave oven.

  As shown in FIG. 1D, the heat seal portion 14 provided with the quick peeling portion H of the seasoning liquid packaging body 13 is connected to the linear shape portion and the linear shape portion, and the portions are separated from each other. It is comprised by two quick peeling locations H which protruded in the shape of a triangle at the position in the seasoning liquid direction accommodated in a seasoning liquid package.

  When this food pack C is put into a microwave oven and heating is started, raw fish E, which is an uncooked food, begins to thaw or is warmed, and after a period of time, the raw fish generates water vapor and is wrapped outside by the steam pressure. Body B begins to expand. As the moisture of the raw fish E evaporates, the raw fish is heated.

  On the other hand, the seasoning liquid in the seasoning liquid package 13 starts to expand in the seasoning liquid package 13 due to heating, and the internal pressure in the seasoning liquid package increases. The internal pressure acts on the heat seal portion around the seasoning liquid package and also acts on the heat seal portion 14. Since the heat seal portion 14 is provided with two quick separation points H that are spaced apart from each other and project in a triangular shape in the direction of the seasoning liquid, when the internal pressure reaches the expansion limit in the seasoning liquid package, the quick peeling point The triangular apex portion of H peels off. When the apex portion is peeled off, the vicinity of H of the heat seal portion 14 having the quick peeling portion H is opened.

  Thereafter, the seasoning liquid inside the seasoning liquid packaging body 13 flows down along the inclined bottom wall 10 of the packaging body storage compartment F, and the communication path G between the food storage compartment D and the packaging body storage compartment F. And quickly flows into the food storage compartment D.

  By the inflow of the seasoning liquid into the food storage compartment D, the seasoning liquid soaks into the raw fish E at the start of baking, and the seasoning of the raw fish at the start of baking is started. After that, the raw fish is seasoned with the seasoning liquid, and the seasoned boiled fish is completed.

  On the other hand, when the vapor pressure inside the outer package B reaches the expansion limit in the outer package during the heating stage of the food pack C, it faces the food storage compartment D side in the heat seal portion of the outer package. The steam outlet a of the heat seal part to be opened is opened, the entire opposite heat seal part is opened, and the steam in the outer package B is instantaneously exhausted to the outside.

  In this way, simply by heating the food pack C with the microwave oven, the raw fish E becomes the grilled fish seasoned inside the food storage compartment D, and then the container body A containing the seasoned grilled fish is removed. By simply removing it from the package B, seasoned grilled fish can be easily provided.

  In the above description, the two quick peeling portions are provided in the heat seal portion 14, but the number of the provided portions is not limited.

1 shows a food pack C for cooking a microwave oven according to the present invention. FIG. 2 shows a packaging container main body A containing the frozen food E and the seasoning liquid packaging 13. 2A is a plan view of the package container A, FIG. 2B is a cross-sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. 2A, FIG. 2C is a cross-sectional view taken along line YY of FIG. FIG. 2D is an enlarged view of the heat seal portion of the seasoning liquid packaging body 13.

Explanation of symbols

A Food container body B Outer package which is a food package for cooking by heating in a microwave oven Steam outlet C Food pack D Food storage compartment E Uncooked food F Package storage compartment G Passage H Seasoning liquid packaging heat seal Quick peeling point 1 which is a steam outlet of a part Flat bottom wall 2 Edge 3 Side wall 4 Edge 5 Rising inclined wall 6 Lowering inclined wall 7 Hollow partial partition wall 8 Bottom wall 9 Lower edge 10 Inclined bottom wall 11 Lateral edge 12 Inclined side wall 13 Seasoning liquid packaging body 14 Heat seal part of seasoning liquid packaging body

Claims (3)

  A food storage compartment, a package storage compartment arranged in parallel with the food storage compartment, a plurality of partial partition walls separating the food storage compartment and the package storage compartment, and food between the plurality of partial partition walls In the food container main body having a communication passage that communicates between the storage compartment and the package storage compartment, the food storage compartment has a flat rectangular bottom wall and an inclined side wall that rises outward from three peripheral edges of the rectangular bottom wall. And a plurality of partial partition walls, wherein the package housing compartment is connected to the rectangular bottom wall and the partial partition walls and extends inclined upward with respect to the position level of the rectangular bottom wall. A wall, an inclined side wall that rises outward from lateral edges on both sides of the inclined bottom wall, and the plurality of partial partition walls, storing uncooked food in the food storage compartment, and in the package compartment The seasoning packaging with the heat seal part is attached to the heat seal part. Microwave cooking that consists of a heat seal part with one or more steam vents facing toward the food storage compartment, and the food container body wrapped with a food packaging for microwave heating cooking For food pack.   The upper surface of the food storage compartment and the upper surface of the package storage compartment are open and on the same plane, the inclined side wall of the food storage compartment and the inclined side wall of the package storage compartment are on the same plane, and a plurality of parts The partition wall has an equal distance width from the both ends of the remaining one edge of the rectangular bottom wall to the inside of the edge in parallel with each other from the rising wall and the rising wall top portion rising in parallel with each other. Consists of a falling wall that descends in parallel down to the level of the rectangular bottom wall surface, and a hollow partition wall that is formed by interconnecting the inner side of the rising wall and the inner side of the lowering wall. One or a plurality of steam outlets in the heat seal portion of the body is provided so as to protrude in the direction of the seasoning liquid in the seasoning liquid package, and the food packaging body for microwave cooking is opposed to the food storage compartment side. A steam outlet is provided on the side. Item 12. A food pack for cooking in a microwave oven according to Item 1.   The food pack for microwave cooking according to claim 2, wherein the shape of one or a plurality of steam outlets of the heat seal portion of the seasoning liquid package is a triangle.

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