Snack food fryer with consistent thermal fluid heating
Achieve uniform frying with precise thermal fluid technology, ensuring consistently vibrant color and texture for a range of snack products, from tortillas to nuts, while efficiently managing temperature shifts and simplifying cleaning processes.

Fry Snack Foods with Uniform Temperature Control
The MasterTherm Snack Food Fryer utilizes thermal fluid heating from Heat and Control to deliver consistent frying results across various snack foods, such as corn chips, plantain chips, and roasted nuts. This fryer stands out with its tube-in-tube heat exchanger design, which efficiently circulates minimal thermal fluid volume, allowing for rapid adjustments to cooking oil temperature in response to product load changes. Ideal for integration into high-speed, continuous operations, it ensures uniform color and texture across a range of end products, including tortilla chips and cheese puffs.
Equipped with features that reduce cleaning efforts, such as generous spacing between heating tubes to eliminate fines accumulation, the fryer supports seamless processing and cleaning cycles. It is suitable for diverse industry applications, from snack foods to prepared meals, and offers enhanced oil filtration and cooling options with auxiliary modules. Customizable to your needs, it facilitates efficient thermal stress prevention through independently moving heat exchanger tubes, providing longevity and reliability in demanding production environments.
Benefits
- Ensures consistent product quality with precise temperature control, enhancing snack food appeal.
- Minimizes cleaning time and prevents contamination through an accessible design that eliminates fines accumulation.
- Adapts rapidly to changes in production load, improving operational efficiency.
- Extended equipment lifespan by preventing thermal stress with independent heat exchanger tube movement.
- Integrates seamlessly into high-speed, continuous production lines for diverse snack applications.
- Applications
- Extruded snacks,Pellet snacks,Snack foods,Namkeen,Nuts,Popcorn,Plantain and banana chips,Legume snacks,Corn and tortilla chips
- End products
- Plantain chips,Banana chips,Tortilla chips,Puffcorn,Lentil snacks,Roasted almonds,Cheese puffs,Popcorn kernels,Corn chips,Namak para
- Steps before
- Corn Cooking,Soaking,Blending,Cutting,Corn Grinding / Masa Preparation
- Steps after
- Oil Filtration,Product Cooling,Seasoning,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- corn,pellets,popcorn kernels,plantains,banana slices,extruded snacks,legumes,namkeen mix,raw nuts
- Output ingredients
- corn chips,tortilla chips,pellet snacks,popped popcorn,fried plantain chips,fried banana chips,extruded snacks,legume snacks,roasted nuts,namkeen
- Market info
- Heat and Control (Mastermatic) is known for manufacturing industrial engineered-to-order food processing equipment, specializing in frying and cooking systems, and is recognized for high-quality, innovative solutions and reliable customer support in the food production industry.
- Heating Technology
- Thermal fluid direct heated
- Uniform Temperature Control
- Yes
- Heat Exchanger Design
- Tube-in-tube
- Oil Volume in Heat Exchanger
- Reduced
- Oil Temperature Adjustment
- Rapid
- Thermal Stress Prevention
- Independent tube movement
- Cleaning Facilitation
- Generous spacing between tubes
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Automation level
- PLC / SCADA
- CIP/SIP
- CIP
- Energy efficiency
- Low kWh/kg
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Product size uniformity
- Yes/No
- Machine Footprint
- Compact
- Heat Exchanger Design
- Tube-in-tube
- Oil Volume in Heat Exchanger
- Minimal
- Heating Tube Spacing
- Generous
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen HMI
- Integration possibilities
- PLC/SCADA support
- Discharge method
- Automated