A utensil for baking potatoes including at least one member having a bottom wall and a plurality of upwardly extending side walls, the bottom and side walls defining a partially enclosed cooking space between them, and at least one spike member having a first end and a second end, the first end being fixed to the bottom wall and the second end extending through the cooking space between the side walls.

Seed potatoes are fogged with a composition comprising 2,2-dibromo-3-nitrilopropionamide. Control of pathogens on potatoes is obtained with relatively low amounts of active material.

A system is provided for slicing raw, whole potatoes into sticks or strips; sorting the sticks, separating out sticks having black or discolored spots thereon, snipping the ends of the separated sticks and sorting the separated sticks after snipping.

A set of holes are bored into a potato in preparation for cooking to provide a multi-holed potato and potato twirls. Apparatus for forming the multi-holed potato has a gang of parallel drills mounted for rotary and reciprocal movement through holes in a pair of plates spaced apart a distance to support the potato therebetween.

A process for the manufacture of fried potatoes by using as a raw material potato pieces having a specific gravity of 1.070-1.085 and cut into a thick square pillar or corrugated form. The process includes the steps of cutting a potato having said specific gravity into pieces, dipping the pieces into hot water at a temperature of 60.degree.-70.degree. C. for 5-10 minutes to blanch the same, primary frying the blanched pieces in an edible oil kept at a temperature of 160.degree.-190.degree.C., im...

An apparatus and process of cooking potato pieces fluidized in upwardly flowing heated air in an inverted conical cooking chamber to produce hot browned potatoes with a moisture content over 40%. According to the invention the apparatus is provided with a multispeed air blower to provide higher pressure heated air to the bottom of cooking chamber at startup of cooking to overcome jamming of potato pieces; supplemented by mechanically moving a perforated bottom support platform upwardly in the co...

The present invention relates to a method of obtaining, on a large scale by tissue culture, tuber of potato, corm of taro, konjak, jack-in-the-culprit, rhizome of Scopolia japonica, tuberous root of Chinese yam, etc. having an enough large size to cultivate seed tubers by one cultivation in the soil. This method comprises culturing the plant itself or its slices in a liquid medium till the plant grows to a size of 15 to 30 cm on the average, sinking 90% or more of the plant in the liquid medium,...

The production of potatoes by growing a large number of independent shoot axes, each of which will form one or more microtubers, from a single microtuber is disclosed. This system has three interconnected stages: (1) the formation of a microtuber shoot complex by inducing shoot tip necrosis in the apical shoot; (2) the elongation of the resulting multiple shoot axes, and (3) the tuberization of the multiple shoot axes.

A set of holes are drilled into a potato in preparation for cooking to provide a multi-holed potato and potato twirls. Apparatus for forming the multi-holed potato has a gang of parallel drills mounted for rotary and reciprocal movement through holes in a pair of plates spaced apart a distance to support the potato therebetween.

Apparatus and process for recovering the skins from baked potato parts and for recovering the potato meat that is scooped out of potato shells. Cupped shaped molds arranged to firmly hold potato halves in tray assemblies positioned at predetermined space points are attached to a conveyor that rotates about a first stationary drum. Cutter units form part of knife assemblies which are on the outer periphery of an opposed parallel rotating drum which assemblies are positioned at predetermined space...