ES293189U - Container for corn popcorn (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Container for corn popcorn, essentially characterized by being constituted from a tray materialized in a thin sheet of aluminum duly formed, of disposable character, in whose mouth a perimetral flange is defined through which the aforementioned tray is fixed cover, preferably transparent plastic, with the special feature that said cover is substantially oversized with respect to the mouth of the tray and also substantially tucked into the same, having provided on the bottom of the tray a dose is arranged of maize that is immersed in a paste defined by the ingredients necessary for cooking, specifically vegetable and animal fat, salt, antioxidants and any other ingredient that is deemed appropriate in such a way that the said container at the end of the marketing phase and at the moment of its consumption at the domestic level it is in a condition for the transformation of corn into popcorn, by simply applying it to a source of heat, the tray acting as a culinary container and maintaining the hermetic closure during the whole roasting phase, in which the heat causes the expansion of the contained air in the bosom of the same and the oversized of the cover sheet allows an increase in the volumetry of the closed receptacle, in accordance with the demands derived from the expansion of the corn and its transformation into rosettes or popcorn. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)