Cocoa nibs and malt roasting system
Enhance your flavor profile with precise roasting, sterilization, and taste control capabilities, all in a compact system perfect for small-batch trials and recipe development—transforming raw cocoa nibs and malt into exquisite, full-bodied ingredients ready for innovative confectionery creations.
Roasts and Sterilizes Cocoa and Malt
The LAB Tornado Roasting System from Bühler Group is a versatile solution engineered for small-scale cocoa and malt processing. This system combines conductive and convective heat transfer to ensure precise roasting and sterilization, enhancing taste profiles and enabling innovative recipe development. Ideal for R&D labs, it supports granules such as cocoa nibs and malt extract, enabling small batch experiments in confectionery and snack production. The LAB Tornado facilitates flexible flavor treatments through solution and air injection, promoting efficient mixing and extended flavor development. With its compact design, it integrates smoothly into lab-scale operations, offering rapid set-up and reduced material waste. Its new performance drum boosts flavor intensity while improving energy efficiency by up to 20%, making it both effective and cost-efficient. Maintenance is straightforward, with easy cleanup ensuring food safety and product integrity. The system’s build allows for customization to match specific processing demands, backed by Bühler’s engineering support.
Benefits
- Enhances recipe innovation by allowing frequent trials without halting full production.
- Minimizes raw material waste with small batch processing capability.
- Boosts energy efficiency by up to 20% through optimized drum design.
- Ensures food safety with easy-to-clean, gap-free construction.
- Offers flavor treatment flexibility with conductive and convective heat transfer.
- Applications
- Snacks,Cocoa,Sweets,Malt
- End products
- Chocolate truffles,Malted snack bars,Malt extract,Cocoa nibs,Malted milk balls,Chocolate-covered snacks,Malt powder,Roasted cocoa beans
- Steps before
- Grinding,Dehulling,Milling
- Steps after
- Sterilization,Packing,Weighing
- Input ingredients
- cocoa nibs,malt
- Output ingredients
- roasted cocoa nibs,roasted malt
- Market info
- Buhler is renowned for manufacturing advanced process solutions for food, feed, and advanced materials. They are highly regarded for their innovation in milling technology and equipment quality.
- Heat transfer method
- Conductive and convective
- Taste control
- Integrated
- Flexibility in flavor treatment
- Solution or air injection
- Drum design
- New performance drum
- Working mechanism
- Conductive and convective heat transfer
- Integrated steps
- Roasting,sterilization,and taste control
- CIP principles
- Easy to clean,no gaps for microbiological activity
- Batch vs. inline flow
- Batch trials
- Automation level
- Option to inject solutions or air
- Changeover time
- Fast set-up times
- Energy efficiency
- Improves energy efficiency up to 20%
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Control panel type
- HMI integrated
- Integration possibilities
- Conductive and convective heat transfer
- Heat source type
- Conductive / Convective
- Solution injection capability
- Yes
- Drum design customization
- Performance optimized