METHOD FOR WASHING, STERILIZING AND DEODORIZING FOOD MATERIAL OR TABLEWARE SUCH AS VEGETABLE OR DISH, AND APPARATUS FOR WASHING, STERILIZING AND DEODORIZING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for washing, sterilizing and deodorizing a vegetable or another food material and tablewares thereof, baskets, cages, or the like, for carrying used in the process and to provide an apparatus for washing, sterilizing and deodorizing the same.;SOLUTION: The method for washing, sterilizing and deodorizing the vegetable, dishes, and the like, comprises a step of sterilizing a material to be washed and sterilized so that either one of a transporting step of maintaining the material to be washed and sterilized near the water surface and/or a transporting step of maintaining the material to be washed and sterilized at a prescribed water depth below the water surface can be selected by either one of normal and reverse rotative directions of a carrying drive source and a step of adding gaseous carbon dioxide in order to safely achieve high sterilizing effects within the range of pH5-6 extremely sensitive to the amount of added hydrochloric acid when sterilization is carried out, applying stirring actions to a solution around the food material with air and a water stream of sterilizing water from the lower side so as to discharge stains toward the outside thereof. Violent jetting water streams are applied to the sterilization water surface from the upper side of the water surface to remove foreign materials such as hair and even insects sticking to the material to be washed by generated bubble groups, the stirring actions and tapping vibration. A floating vegetable is made to sink in the lower side of a net conveyor and carried and sticking bubbles of the gaseous carbon dioxide are peeled by applying vibration at an interval of a prescribed time. Thereby, the sterilization can more surely be carried out.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI