This conveniently located test kitchen enables large and small food processors to test advanced cooking and chilling systems that can provide important economic and quality advantages.
Food manufacturers, with their desire to find ways to innovate and improve their operations, have long utilized cook/chill technology that allows food to maintain its quality and shelf life for as long as possible.
Finding sustainable methods of operation and energy consumption rule the day when it comes to the challenges facing the cooking and chilling processes.
Today, most methods of mass cooking and chilling are pretty economical and sufficient for their purpose. However, processors and manufacturers continue to tweak thermal-processing procedures to eliminate remaining challenges.
At the 2011 Process Expo, among other things, Mepaco exhibited its ThermaBlend line of cookers that feature superior cooking, cooling, and blending characteristics.
Hoegger is a premium designer and manufacturer of process machinery used in the meat and food industries. They offer innovative system solutions for Form Pressing, Cooking and Chilling.
When processors are looking to enhance the texture and improve moisture retention in their protein products, one option they can turn to is the use of approved phosphates in their formulations.
The two beneficial effects of phosphates in meat and poultry products are moisture retention and flavor protection.