Industrial defrosting and mixing for frozen raw materials
Reduce frozen material tempering time from hours to minutes, ensuring rapid, consistent mixing that enhances product quality and safety while streamlining your production line.
Rapidly Tempers and Mixes Frozen Food Ingredients
The GEA ColdSteam M represents an innovative step forward in defrosting and mixing technology for the food processing industry. Engineered by GEA, it utilizes the ColdSteam technology to dramatically cut down tempering times, transforming frozen food ingredients into a homogeneous mix for high-quality formed products like fish burgers, chicken nuggets, and plant-based meatballs within minutes. By delivering steam under vacuum conditions, the system defrosts efficiently at approximately 33°C, preventing scalding and protein denaturation.
This equipment is seamlessly integrated into automated production lines, equipped with variable speed twin-shaft mixers for optimal ingredient blending, ensuring consistent quality and enhanced protein extraction. The robust design caters to a wide range of products, from solid to slurry, with capacities ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 liters, addressing the needs of high-speed and continuous operations.
Food processors will appreciate the enhanced food safety inherent in its closed system, reducing bacterial contamination risks. The optional integration of liquid CO2 or liquid N2 cooling allows for processing even within extended formed product ranges. Designed for easy cleaning and maintenance, the GEA ColdSteam M provides reliable performance with minimal downtime, delivering precise and predictable mixing results essential for maintaining product integrity in a competitive market.
Benefits
- Accelerates production by reducing tempering time from hours to minutes.
- Enhances product quality with consistent, homogeneous mixing.
- Increases food safety by minimizing bacterial contamination through a closed processing environment.
- Lowers operational costs with integrated defrosting and mixing in a single unit.
- Supports sustainability with energy-efficient steam use under vacuum conditions.
- Applications
- Meat replacement products,Formed food products,Fish products,Food processing,Frozen foods,Chicken products,Vegetable products,Ingredients mixing
- End products
- Chicken nuggets,Ready-to-cook chicken fillets,Fish fingers,Fish burgers,Vegetarian sausages,Plant-based burgers,Vegetable patties,Mixed frozen vegetable blocks,Plant-based meatballs,Vegetable beignets
- Steps before
- Grinding,Pre-grounding frozen meat
- Steps after
- Forming,Mixing,Emulsification,Homogenization
- Input ingredients
- fully frozen raw material,pre-ground frozen meat,frozen fish,frozen vegetables,frozen meat replacement products,frozen poultry
- Output ingredients
- premium quality products,fish burgers,vegetable products,meat replacement products,chicken nuggets,homogenous mix,formed products
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Defrosting time
- Minutes instead of hours
- Steam temperature
- Approx 33°C
- Volume
- 1400 l - 5000 l
- Mixing power
- 11 kW - 37 kW
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Homogeneity of mix
- High
- Cooling option
- Liquid CO2 or liquid N2
- Process control
- Steam under vacuum
- Working mechanism
- Steam under vacuum
- Integrated steps
- Defrosting and mixing
- Batch vs. inline flow
- Inline Continuous
- Automation level
- Fully automated
- Energy efficiency
- Uses thermal energy
- Cleaning method
- Closed environment
- Changeover time
- Rapid
- Temperature control
- 33°C steam
- Biological compatibility
- Food-grade materials
- Cleanability
- CIP compatible
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Stainless steel construction
- Density/particle size
- Suitable for dense frozen blocks
- Heat sensitivity
- No scalding due to low steam temperature (approx 33°C)
- Product type
- Fish burgers,vegetable and meat replacement products,chicken nuggets
- Defrosting time reduction
- From hours to minutes
- Material state
- Fully frozen raw material
- Mixing homogeneity
- Consistent quality for formed products
- Tempering method
- Steam under vacuum conditions
- Machine volume
- 1400 l to 5000 l
- Mixing power
- 11 (2x5,5) to 37 (2x18,5)
- Steam temperature
- Approx 33°C
- Compact footprint
- Single unit required
- Discharge method
- Integrated mixing,defrosting
- Control panel type
- Total process control using steam under vacuum
- Control panel type
- HMI / Touchscreen
- Integration possibilities
- SCADA / PLC / IoT-enabled
- Mixing wing configuration
- Variable speed,independently driven
- Cooling options
- Liquid CO2 / Liquid N2
- Volume capacity
- 1000-5000 l options