Automatic bread maker, ingredient box and bread making method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10426174-B2
Application number	US-201615250106-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 29, 2016
Priority date	Sep 19, 2012
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

A bread making method includes providing an automatic bread maker; providing a bread ingredient box and putting bread ingredients into a first accommodating room and packaging; placing an outer wall of the bread ingredient box face down on a hanging rack provided with a sawtooth blade above a baking pan inside the automatic break maker, causing the sawtooth blade to pierce the outer wall of the bread ingredient box and allowing the bread ingredients to drop into a stock bin for temporary storage, controlling covers of the stock bin to open as required, causing at least some of the bread ingredients to drop into the baking pan and adding water; processing the bread ingredients and the water into a working dough by mixing, stirring and kneading, to provide a first dough; resting, fermenting and degassing the first dough; heating and baking the first dough in the baking pan.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A bread making method, comprising:
providing an automatic bread maker including a housing; a hanging rack provided with a saw tooth blade; and a lid;
providing a bread ingredient box having a first accommodating room; and having an outer wall that is weak;
putting bread ingredients including flour and baking powder according to a proper bread formula into the first accommodating room of the bread ingredient box and packaging the bread ingredients within the bread ingredient box;
placing the outer wall of the bread ingredient box face down on the hanging rack above a baking pan inside the automatic bread maker, causing the sawtooth blade of the hanging rack to pierce the outer wall of the bread ingredient box and allowing the bread ingredients to drop into a stock bin for temporary storage, controlling covers of the stock bin to open as required, causing at least some of the bread ingredients to drop into the baking pan and adding water to the bread ingredients within the baking pan at the same time;
processing the bread ingredients and the water into a working dough by mixing, stirring and kneading, to provide a first dough within the baking pan;
resting and fermenting the first dough within the baking pan, and causing fermentation air to degas out of the first dough;
heating and baking the dough in the baking pan until the bread is baked; taking the baking pan out of the automatic bread maker, and removing the bread.

2. The bread making method according to claim 1 , further comprising putting a bread accessory material into a second accommodating room of the bread ingredient box and packaging the bread accessory material within the bread ingredient box; and
causing the bread accessory material to drop from the second accommodating room into the baking pan between resting and fermenting and heating and baking, and kneading the bread accessory material into the first dough to form a second dough.

3. The bread making method according to claim 1 , further comprising providing a control block to control the automatic bread maker by detecting and reading formula information contained on the bread ingredient box to obtain method information specific for the formula information that includes:
a working process for a stirring blade disposed in the baking pan;
a heating process for the automatic bread maker; and
a water flow controller.

Assignees

• Tsann Kuen Zhangzhou Entpr Co

Inventors

• Zhang Zhonghua
• Gao Shangqian
• Cui Fudong
• Chen Shihchin

Classifications

• A21D8/00

  Methods for preparing or baking dough (treatment of flour or dough by adding materials A21D2/00) · CPC title

• A47J37/015

  electrically heated · CPC title

• A21D10/002

  Dough mixes; Baking or bread improvers; Premixes · CPC title

• A21C1/006

  Methods · CPC title

• A21B7/005 Primary

  in combination with mixing or kneading devices · CPC title