UK-based packaging company Sirane said it will unveil its new ovenable cooking bag at Packaging Innovations at the NEC, Birmingham in the UK.

The new product is claimed to be simple in use while cooking food to perfection and can be used in any cooking environment ranging from ovens to barbecues, griddles and hot plates.

The new bags contain a blend of kilned beech mixed with frozen herbs and spices, which are placed in a sachet and slipped below the bag’s siliconised layer.

The Sira-Cook bag is claimed to have a good opening mechanism. The top surface of the bag can be easily peeled away when the bag is hot, leaving food on a foil base.

The food can be stirred, turned if required and can be allowed to cook for longer and browned or served directly.

The bags can come in FPS format – folded, packed and sealed and can be used in meal kits and as part of ready meals.

The Sira-Cook bag can be stocked as stand-along product and it is part of the company’s Thinking-Cooking portfolio.

Apart from barbecue/oven bags, Sirane makes a range of other cooking bags including steam-cooking bags for oven/microwave, nylon roasting bags and sous-vide bags and even multi-compartment bags.

Sirane managing director Simon Balderson said: “We’ve got a great range of cooking bag solutions, and the next step for us is to find ways of making the bags even more innovative. This is a fairly simple idea, but one which transforms a cooking bag in to a bag of flavour.

“This could be a great option for retailers and a very versatile solution. It could be used over the counter with fresh food, supplied shipped into store with the flavour sachet already in the bag, or could even be used as part of a meal kit for the consumer to use.”

Balderson said: “Our new Sira-Cook Supreme cooking bag has so many potential uses – and offers numerous advantages to users. But using the bag as a ‘’bag of flavour’ could really help retailers offer a truly stand-out product.

“It is a foil bag capable of withstanding significant direct heat, allowing for its use on a barbecue as well as in an oven. The food will be tender, retain all the juices and flavours as well as the goodness. This product is great for meat, poultry and seafood.”

Image: Sirane to introduce ovenable bags for cooking. Photo: Courtesy of Sirane Group.