Rotary drum blancher for industrial food processing
Optimize your food processing line with a robust solution that ensures precise blanching, cooking, and cooling of various food products, enhancing quality and throughput while minimizing resource consumption.
Blanches, Cooks, and Cools Diverse Food Products
The Rotary Drum Blancher from Lyco Manufacturing offers superior blanching, cooking, and cooling capabilities for a wide range of food processing applications. With its precision engineering and state-of-the-art design, it ensures uniform cooking for end products such as pasta, vegetables, meats, and plant-based proteins.
This equipment uses a direct steam system, providing high-capacity continuous operation with precisely controlled retention times. The gentle agitation minimizes product damage and ensures consistent temperatures, critical for quality outputs like parboiled rice and sous vide meat cuts.
Capable of handling solid and granular product types, the Lyco Rotary Drum Blancher integrates seamlessly into automated lines and supports efficient energy and water use, reducing costs and environmental footprint. Available in multiple diameters and lengths, it can be customized to meet specific production requirements and throughput goals.
Lyco’s design emphasizes easy-to-clean, sanitary construction, facilitating rapid changeovers and minimizing downtime. Engineered to withstand rigorous processing environments, it offers reliable operation with lower maintenance demands, backed by Lyco’s extensive industry expertise and support.
Benefits
- Maximizes production efficiency with high-capacity throughput and continuous operation.
- Reduces energy and water usage, lowering operational costs and environmental impact.
- Ensures consistent product quality with precise temperature and retention time control.
- Minimizes product damage through gentle agitation, preserving texture and appearance.
- Facilitates rapid cleaning and changeovers with easy-to-clean sanitary construction.
- Applications
- Meat/poultry/seafood,Sous vide,Pasta,Pet food,Green beans,Plant-based protein,Vegetables,Rice,Dry beans
- End products
- Canned beans,Packaged green beans,Blanched vegetable mixes,Precooked chicken strips,Cooked pasta shapes,Sous vide meat cuts,Parboiled rice,Fish fillets,Tofu cubes,Wet dog food
- Steps before
- Sorting,Washing,Peeling,Cutting
- Steps after
- Cooling,Packing,Further processing,Inspection
- Input ingredients
- Dry Beans,Vegetables,Rice,Sous Vide,Pasta,Green Beans
- Output ingredients
- Blanched Dry Beans,Blanched Vegetables,Cooked Rice,Sous Vide Cooked Products,Blanched Pasta,Blanched Green Beans
- 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.
- Drum Diameter
- 36",48",60",72"
- Drum Length
- 4 ft to 28 ft
- Throughput Capacity
- 50% higher than competition
- Retention Time
- 2 to 60 minutes
- Energy Efficiency
- Less energy usage
- Water Usage
- Less water usage
- Cooling Time Reduction
- 40% reduction
- Agitation Type
- Gentle agitation
- Automation
- Continuous operation
- Footprint
- Compact design
- Working mechanism
- Rotary drum
- Integrated steps
- Blanching,Cooking,Cooling
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Automation level
- PLC-controlled
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Energy efficiency
- Higher capacity in a smaller footprint
- Changeover time
- Easy-to-clean
- Retention time
- 2 to 60 minutes
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Machine footprint
- Small
- Drum diameter
- 36 in. to 72 in.
- Drum length
- 4 ft. to 28 ft.
- Feed method
- Gravity chute / water-cushioned in-feed flume
- Discharge method
- Chute
- Trunnion/wheel support
- Yes
- Drum size
- 36 to 72 inches in diameter,4 to 28 feet in length
- Agitation method
- Gentle agitation