METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HIGH PRESSURE GAS CHARGED CANDY AND HIGH PRESSURE GAS CHARGING APPARATUS FOR PUTTING SAME INTO PRACTICE

摘要

There are provided a method of producing a pressurized gas-entrapping candy and a pressurized gas-entrapping apparatus to be used for the method. According to the method, the pressurized gas-entrapping candy is produced by preparing a hard candy with a conventional method, crushing the hard candy and sieving to obtain candy particles, attaching a pipe with fine holes in its peripheral wall to a cylindrical vessel through an opening formed in a lid of the cylindrical vessel, filling the candy particles in a space between the cylindrical vessel and the pipe, loading the cylindrical vessel in a long and cylindrical pressure-resistant vessel, feeding heating steam and then cooling water to a jacket portion of the pressure-resistant vessel, while maintaining pressurized state in the pressure-resistant vessel, to carry out heating and cooling treatments of the candy particles in the cylindrical vessel, and then releasing the pressurized state of the pressure-resistant vessel. Since the candy particles do not directly contact with jacket portion of the pressure-resistant vessel, therefore, thermal change in quality does not occur and since the cylindrical vessel fills a function as a cartridge, the pressurized gas-entrapping candy can be produced in substantially continuous manner and in large amount to decrease production cost thereof.