US 12,439,942 B2
Method for producing noodle strands with wavy cross-section
Yoshiaki Nagayama, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SANYO FOODS CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/637,731
Filed by SANYO FOODS CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/031019
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 23, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/039473, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-154782 (JP), filed on Aug. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0279823 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. A23L 7/10 (2016.01); A21C 11/20 (2006.01); A21C 11/22 (2006.01); A21C 11/24 (2006.01); A23L 7/113 (2016.01); B26D 3/10 (2006.01)
CPC A23L 7/113 (2016.08) [A21C 11/22 (2013.01); A21C 11/24 (2013.01); B26D 3/10 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for producing instant noodles comprising noodle strands having a wavy cross-section, the method comprising:
preparing a noodle belt,
cutting the noodle belt into cut noodle strands with a cutting apparatus,
steaming and gelatinizing the cut noodle strands, and
drying the gelatinized noodle strands,
wherein:
the cutting apparatus has a pair of cutting rollers, and each of the pair of cutting rollers has a plurality of annular grooves and a plurality of blades which are alternatingly arranged along a longitudinal direction of the pair of cutting rollers,
the pair of cutting rollers are arranged so that the plurality of annular grooves of one of the pair of cutting rollers engage with the plurality of blades of the other cutting roller,
each of the plurality of annular grooves of the pair of cutting rollers has two first grooves and a second groove, wherein each of the two first grooves is located closer to an adjacent blade of the plurality of blades along the longitudinal direction of the pair of cutting rollers as compared to the second groove, and the second groove is deeper than the two first grooves and located between the two first grooves,
when a shortest distance along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the pair of cutting rollers between the two first grooves of one of the pair of cutting rollers and the plurality of blades of the other cutting roller, which face the two first grooves, is defined as D1, a thickness of the noodle belt is 2.0 to 2.7 times D1, and
the ratio of a width of the two first grooves to a width of the second groove is 0.5:1 to 1.5:1.