Protein Problem Solver: Tip Top folds 3 IQF diced poultry lines into one
Tip Top Poultry, of Marietta, Ga., is the largest baking and stewing hen marketer in the United States and a major supplier of individually quick-frozen (IQF) cooked, pulled and diced chicken meat to the foodservice and industrial market sectors.
Tip Top processes IQF products in Rockmart, Ga. Boiled hens are deboned, and meat is filleted, pulled or diced to size, from 1/4” to 1” and then individually quick-frozen. Diced poultry is screened and fines are packed for separate sale. In the past, diced poultry and other IQF products were fed into three or four CO2-flighted freezers, feeding two packaging lines.