Prepared Food Processing Machinery Manufacturers
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Browse Prepared Food Machinery Suppliers →Ready-meal and prepared food production — machinery overview
Prepared food and ready-meal processing combines multiple processing technologies in a single production environment. A typical ready-meal line involves: raw material preparation (meat cutting, vegetable preparation using standard cutting, dicing, washing, and blanching equipment); cooking (continuous or batch kettles, continuous belt or drum cookers); sauce and gravy production (industrial cooking kettles with mixing; sauce transfer pumps; heat-and-hold vessels); portioning and assembly (depositors for sauces, vegetables, and proteins; gravimetric portioners for solid food components; tray conveyors and filling lines); sealing (modified atmosphere packaging — MAP sealing with heat-seal or skin-pack of trays); labelling; metal detection and X-ray inspection; chilling (blast chilling of filled trays to below 5°C after sealing); and distribution despatch. The integration and sequence of equipment varies by product type — a ready-meal line producing chilled pasta dishes has a different layout and equipment set from one producing frozen meat and vegetable trays.