Corn cooking systems for tortilla chips
Achieve precise control over corn cooking and processing for tortilla chips, ensuring consistent flavor and texture with each batch, while optimizing your production line for efficiency and quality.
Processes and Cooks Corn for Tortilla Production
The Corn Cooking System from Heat and Control is engineered to optimize your tortilla and snack production processes. This system excels in precisely batching, cooking, and cooling corn, ensuring flavor consistency across products like tortilla chips and crispy taco shells. Operating in manual, semi-automatic, or fully-automated modes, it integrates seamlessly with existing production lines. Automation offers precise control via PLCs, while modular design reduces installation time and costs. The system showcases robustness with stainless steel construction, ensuring durability in food processing environments. Designed for both energy efficiency and high-capacity output, it supports the production of multiple corn-based snacks, aligning with rigorous industry standards. Additionally, this system provides customization options and ongoing engineering support to meet unique production requirements.
Benefits
- Ensures consistent product quality with precise control over cooking and cooling processes.
- Reduces installation time and costs through modular soak and simmer tank design.
- Enhances operational efficiency by integrating seamlessly into manual, semi-automatic, and fully-automated production lines.
- Lowers energy consumption due to optimized motor control systems.
- Offers robust construction with stainless steel materials, ensuring longevity and reliability in food processing environments.
- Applications
- Tostadas, Corn products, Tortillas, Snacks, Tortilla chips, Corn chips, Taco shells
- End products
- Flavored corn chips, Crispy taco shells, White corn tortilla chips, Grilled tostada rounds, Whole wheat tortillas, Tequila lime tortilla snacks, Corn masa
- Steps before
- Corn Grinding, Dry Corn Batching
- Steps after
- Simmering, Cooling, Masa Preparation, Frying, Packaging, Seasoning
- Input ingredients
- dry corn, masa, corn and grain-based flours
- Output ingredients
- cooked corn, corn chips, tortilla chips, taco shells, tostada shells, tortillas
- Market info
- Heat and Control is known for its expertise in manufacturing food processing and packaging equipment, providing innovative solutions and high-quality systems for industries like snacks, prepared foods, and pharmaceuticals, with a strong reputation for reliability and technical support.
- Automation
- Manual / Semi-automatic / Fully-automated
- Capacity
- Scalable, based on production requirements
- Modular Design
- Soak tanks, simmer kettle systems, platforms
- Installation Time
- Reduced through modular design
- Process Control
- Precise control of dry corn batching, simmering, and cooling
- Repeatability
- Consistent recipe duplication
- Cooking Method
- Simmering, soaking, cooling
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous
- Automation level
- Manual / Semi-automatic / Fully-automated
- Cleaning method
- CIP / Manual
- Energy efficiency
- Optimized for cost efficiency
- Integration capability
- Modular design for easy integration
- Process Control
- Precise control of dry corn batching, simmering, and cooling
- Customization
- Tailored to unique process requirements
- Installation time and cost
- Reduced due to modular design
- Consistency
- Repeatability of recipe
- Flexibility
- Supports growth goals with upgradable systems
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Viscosity
- High/Medium/Low
- Container size and shape
- Varied
- Abrasiveness
- Yes/No
- Material consistency
- Uniform/Variable
- Batch size potential
- Small/Medium/Large
- Machine footprint
- Compact design
- Tank shape
- Cylindrical
- Feed/discharge method
- Automatic conveyor
- System modularity
- Modular soak tanks and platforms
- Control panel type
- Manual/Semi-automatic/Fully-automated
- Basket size
- Variable sizes
- Control panel type
- Manual / Semi-automatic / Fully-automated
- Integration capabilities
- HMI / PLC / SCADA
- System configuration
- Modular soak tanks and simmer kettles
- Growth adaptability
- Scalable production lines
- Recipe management
- Consistent duplicate processes