Blanching solution for pasta and rice
Eliminate clumping and overcooking with a high-capacity continuous system designed for efficient cooking, blanching, and cooling of diverse food products, ensuring uniform quality and rapid changeovers.

Cooks, Blanches, and Cools Diverse Food Products
The Clean-Flow® system from Lyco Manufacturing is an innovative solution tailored for food processing companies seeking to enhance their operations. This continuous blancher, cooker, and cooler addresses key industry challenges by utilizing patented Hydro-Flow® agitation to ensure uniform cooking, prevent clumping, and improve yield by up to 15%. Designed for a broad range of applications, such as pasta, rice, and vegetables, it efficiently processes products for ready-to-eat markets and prepared meal operations. With a fully automated, continuous operation, this equipment offers rapid changeovers and simplifies integration with existing production lines. Its 95% self-cleaning capability reduces downtime and enhances sanitation standards, making it ideal for high-care processing environments. The Clean-Flow® is engineered to minimize energy use and is available in corrosion-resistant materials, meeting stringent hygiene and quality standards.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality by preventing overcooking and undercooking through uniform processing.
- Boosts yield by up to 15%, increasing operational efficiency and profitability.
- Minimizes cleaning downtime with 95% self-cleaning capabilities, improving production flow.
- Enables flexible production with rapid product changeovers, supporting diverse output.
- Integrates seamlessly into existing lines with automated operation, reducing labor demands.
- Applications
- Seafood,Grains,Pasta,Pet food,Meat,Fruits,Green beans,Plant-based protein,Vegetables,Rice,Poultry,Dry beans,Pouches
- End products
- Pre-cooked pasta dishes,Cooked chicken breast strips,Plant-based burger patties,Fruit cocktail cups,Wet dog food cans,Quinoa salad packs,Canned green beans,Instant rice packets,Packaged dry beans,Frozen mixed vegetables,Seafood cocktail products
- Steps before
- Washing,Peeling,Pre-snipping,Cutting
- Steps after
- Cooling,Chilling,Packing
- Input ingredients
- pasta,rice,vegetables,dry beans,green beans,meat,poultry,seafood
- Output ingredients
- cooked pasta,cooked rice,cooked vegetables,cooked dry beans,cooked green beans,cooked meat,cooked poultry,cooked seafood
- Market info
- Lyco Manufacturing is known for designing and producing innovative cooking, cooling, and liquid-solid separation equipment, primarily for the food processing industry, with a strong reputation for reliability, efficiency, and cutting-edge solutions.
- Yield Improvement
- 10% to 15%
- Self-Cleaning Efficiency
- 95%
- Automation
- Fully automated
- Cooling Time
- Under 30 seconds from 200ºF to 40ºF
- Changeover Time
- Rapid/Quick
- Agitation Method
- Hydro-Flow®
- Capacity Type
- Continuous
- Working mechanism
- Hydro-Flow® agitation
- Integrated steps
- Cooking,cooling,blanching
- CIP principles
- 95% self-cleaning,CIP process
- Batch vs continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Changeover time
- Rapid changeover for multiple products
- Automation level
- Fully automated
- Biological compatibility
- Yes
- Cleanability
- 95% Self-Cleaning
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- High
- Density/particle size
- Applicable to pasta,rice,and vegetables
- Feed/discharge method
- Continuous system
- Discharge method
- Fully automated