Fabricantes de Equipamentos de Processamento Térmico

Industrial food thermal processing — machinery overview

Thermal processing covers the controlled application of heat to food for cooking, pasteurisation, sterilisation, blanching, frying, and roasting. The main categories of industrial thermal processing equipment include: industrial cooking kettles (large jacketed stainless-steel vessels — steam or hot-water heated — with mixing for sauces, soups, curries, and other liquid or semi-liquid food cooking); continuous fryers (product travels through a bath of hot cooking oil on a submerged conveyor belt — used for crisps, French fries, snack extrudates, and breaded products); batch fryers (oil bath in an insulated vessel — food loaded manually or in baskets — used for smaller or artisan operations); steam cooking equipment (convection steamers, tunnel steamers, and retort vessels for cooking products using saturated steam); blanching machines (hot water or steam blanching of vegetables, fruits, and nuts prior to freezing, drying, or canning — inactivates enzymes, reduces microbial load, and softens texture); industrial ovens (reel ovens, rack ovens, tunnel ovens, and convection ovens for cooking and baking a wide range of products); roasting machines (gas or electric roasters for nuts, coffee, cocoa, and seeds).