Appeal No. 2003-0127
Application No. 09/157,388
to that of a conventionally made pizza and not a coagulated,3
dried, or hardened state. Once cooled, pizza toppings are
applied to the pizza base and the fully prepared pizza is either
placed in a refrigerator for future use or further heated for a
second predetermined time period and subsequently served to a
consumer. According to appellant (specification, page 10), the
advantage of the disclosed process is that cooking the pizza with
only sauce thereon eliminates the possibility of cheese and moist
tomato sauce bleeding together as the cheese melts.
Appellant’s independent claims 1 and 10 set forth a method
of preparing a pizza comprising the steps of, inter alia, forming
a pizza shell, applying a predetermined quantity of sauce to the
upper surface of the shell to form a pizza base, cooking the
pizza base, and maintaining the sauce in an uncoagulated state
during cooking of the pizza base.
3 The word coagulate has been defined as “to cause to become
viscous or thickened into a coherent mass.” Webster’s New
Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield,
Massachusetts, 1979.
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