Industrial conduction and convection cooker for proteins and vegetables
Enhance your production line with advanced cooking efficiencies, combining conduction and convection heat transfer to brown, bake, and steam a diverse range of solids and slurries, ensuring natural appearance and home-cooked taste.
Cooks, Browns, Sear, Bakes, and Steams Products
The Formcook Combi Cooker from JBT is engineered to address complex cooking challenges for food processors, ready meal manufacturers, and plant-based protein producers. This equipment stands out with its dual-mode heat transfer, using both conduction and convection, to ensure consistent browning, searing, baking, and steaming. Ideal for applications ranging from plant-based burgers to seafood medleys, it can handle both solid and slurry product types with precision. The Combi Cooker features electric or thermal fluid-heated lower platens, allowing flexibility in energy use, and an independent control system for air and steam, facilitating process adjustments. It offers customizable cooking lengths and belt widths, ensuring integration into diverse production lines. A continuous belt cleaning system with scrapers, combined with adjustable process controls, enhances energy efficiency while maximizing throughput. The cooker is designed for easy operations with fast product changeovers and optional product flips for superior product appearance. Available options include stainless steel construction for high corrosion resistance, making it suitable for harsh industrial environments.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality with consistent browning and searing, offering a home-cooked taste and appearance.
- Increases operational efficiency through quick product changeovers and extended cooking times from two to 15 minutes.
- Supports versatile energy sources, offering flexibility with electric or thermal fluid heating options.
- Minimizes maintenance thanks to a continuous belt cleaning system that reduces downtime.
- Facilitates seamless integration with existing lines through configurable infeed and discharge conveyors.
- Applications
- Seafood,Ready meals,Meat,Fruits,Nuts,Plant-based protein,Poultry
- End products
- Seafood medley,Plant-based burgers,Stir-fried veggies,Seared salmon fillets,Baked apple slices,Roasted vegetables,Pork chops,Nut-based roast,Baked potatoes,Trout fillets,Meatballs,Grilled chicken breast,Turkey slices,Plant-based nuggets,Marinated shrimp,Fruit crisps,Steamed tofu,Veggie lasagna,Sautéed mushrooms
- Steps before
- Portioning,Injection,Marination
- Steps after
- Packing,Freezing,Coating
- Input ingredients
- protein products,vegetable products,solid products,semi viscous products
- Output ingredients
- browned products,seared products,baked products,steamed products,home-style appearance products
- Market info
- JBT is known for manufacturing innovative industrial machinery and solutions, particularly in the food processing and air transportation sectors, renowned for their advanced technology, reliability, and customer-focused engineered-to-order solutions tailored to specific industry needs.
- Heat transfer type
- Conduction and convection
- Temperature range
- Conduction up to 260°C,convection up to 280°C
- Cooking dwell time
- 2–15 minutes
- Belt width options
- 600 and 1000 mm
- Heating methods
- Electric or thermal fluid heated lower platens
- Belt cleaning system
- Continuous with scrapers and high pressure water
- Belt tracking system
- Automatic
- Control system
- Independent control of lower platen,air temperature,and steam
- Heating Method
- Conduction and Convection
- Automation Level
- PLC/SCADA
- Cleaning Method
- Continuous Belt Cleaning
- Energy Source Versatility
- Electric or Thermal Fluid
- Product Changeover Time
- Extremely Quick
- Customizable Process Control
- Adjustable Cooking Dwell Times
- Belt Width Options
- 600 and 1000 mm
- Abrasion resistance
- High
- Biological compatibility
- Food grade
- Cleanability
- Easy clean
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Stainless Steel
- Non-stick Surface
- Yes
- Viscosity
- Solid and semi-viscous
- Product size
- Adaptable for varying sizes
- Product shape
- Customizable for different shapes
- Product type
- Protein and vegetable products
- Surface texture
- Non-stick surface,eliminates belt marks
- Machine footprint
- 600 and 1000 mm belt widths
- Belt type
- Non-stick product belt
- Discharge method
- Custom designed discharge conveyors
- Control panel type
- Independent control of lower platen,air temperature and steam
- Heating methods
- Electric or thermal fluid heated lower platens
- Cleaning system
- Continuous belt cleaning system with scrapers and high pressure water
- Customization options
- Available in multiple cooking lengths
- Belt tracking
- Automatic belt tracking and tension system
- Non-stick belt
- Optional product flip
- Infeed and discharge conveyors
- Custom designed