invented by Mark Black and Marton Rajnai
The Turbine Cooker is a revolutionary way of cooking without fuss and fiddle, forming food into any selected moulded shape.
About the Inventor
Mark used to own a café, and would hire Marton to fix the machinery. When Mark designed the turbine cooker he asked Marton to make the prototype for him. It worked so well that Marton came into the project as a joint partner.
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Mark used to own a coffee shop and everyday the staff would have trouble peeling the eggs. Mark came up with the idea of putting them into a tube, and took his design to Marton, who made a prototype out of stainless steel tube with end caps. Their first test went so well they became partners and put a provisional patent in.
The Turbine Cooker is a revolutionary way of cooking without fuss and fiddle, ultimately forming food into any selected moulded shape. The stainless steel prototype consists of tubes of various shapes, including circular, triangular, square, and rectangular.
Food is cracked into the tube, which is fitted at either end with caps to prevent it falling out once full. The tube is then attached to the exterior of a holder by central pins. The holder is then placed inside a saucepan, which is filled with water and put on the stove. Each tube has a set of external fins attached, which force the tube to spin around in the holder from the force of the boiling water in which they are sitting.
When cooking an egg, for example, the centrifugal force from the spinning forces the egg white to the outside perimeter of the inner tube, and the egg yolk to the middle. There are several small holes on the tube which allow water in and out of the tube, as required (like a pressure cooker).
After a sufficient amount of time, the holder is removed from the saucepan and the tube is disengaged from the holder. The tube with food now fully cooked inside it, is cooled and is then pushed out of the tube as one solid tubular shape.
There are also other food applications other than boiled egg. You can use a circular inner tube which sits inside the larger tube. This insert forms a hollow tube. Food is then cooked around this tube, and other ingredients can be used to fill the space left by the inner tube after the initial cooking.
This can range from sushi, to using rice or pasta. Mark suggests stuffing cheese into the inner hollow, after pasta has cooked in the outer tube, and then rolling the pasta roll in breadcrumbs and deep frying it.
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