Panasonic Corp. and Nagoya-based bakery Pasco Shikishima Corp. have started offering cafes, bakeries and restaurants a service that provides "freshly-baked" bread and confectionaries that can be served in about a minute.
The bread and confectionaries are flash frozen to preserve flavor after being baked by Pasco, then reheated in Panasonic's high-performance ovens to re-create the taste of freshly baked treats.
For a long time, frozen bread has been used in the food and restaurant industry as an effective way to reduce food loss, but it generally takes about two hours to thaw naturally.
