Split peanut blancher for snack food processing
Efficiently transform roasted or dried peanuts into perfectly blanched products, ensuring smooth heart and skin removal with minimal waste, and elevate your snack production line’s precision and output quality.
Removes Skins and Hearts from Peanuts
The VB-5000 Split Nut Blancher from AC Horn Manufacturing is designed specifically for peanut processing, ensuring efficient skin and heart removal for superior product quality. This blancher, operating at a capacity of 2,000 to 5,000 lbs/hr, excels in producing blanched peanuts, peanut butter, and confectionery ingredients. It employs a dual-aspiration system that separates skins and hearts, minimizing waste and reducing shrinkage during processing. The machine’s continuous operation and high-speed capabilities make it a vital component in food, snack, and nut processing lines. With its robust design, the VB-5000 integrates smoothly into existing systems, supported by adjustable feed hoppers and reliable screening mechanisms. Built from durable materials tailored for food safety, it requires minimal maintenance, allowing for consistent production efficiency.
Benefits
- Optimizes product yield with minimal peanut shrinkage.
- Enhances product quality by ensuring complete skin and heart removal.
- Reduces operational costs with reliable, continuous high-speed processing.
- Integrates seamlessly with existing production lines for greater efficiency.
- Minimizes maintenance needs, increasing overall production uptime.
- Applications
- Candy,Snacks,Nuts,Sweets,Peanut butter
- End products
- Peanut-coated snacks,Peanut candy bars,Brittle,Blanched peanuts
- Steps before
- Roasting,Drying
- Steps after
- Screening,Aspiration,Packing,Coating
- Input ingredients
- roasted peanuts,dried peanuts
- Output ingredients
- blanched peanuts,cleaned peanut halves,peanut hearts
- Market info
- AC Horn Manufacturing is renowned for its expertise in manufacturing industrial equipment for food processing, particularly in nut processing, popping equipment, and material handling systems, known for high-quality engineering and reliable performance in demanding industrial applications.
- Capacity
- 2,000-5,000 lbs/hr
- Capacity
- 2,300+ kg/hr
- Automation
- Simple and reliable operation
- Feed system
- Adjustable feed hopper
- Separation method
- Dual-aspiration system
- Operating range
- 2,000 to 5,000 lbs/hr
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Automation level
- Manual / Automated
- Screening and aspiration
- Integrated
- Efficiency
- Less shrinkage
- Abrasion resistance
- High
- Cleanability
- Easy to clean
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Corrosion-resistant materials
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Biological compatibility
- Food-grade
- Nutritional composition
- Peanuts
- Machine footprint
- Variable
- Feed method
- Adjustable feed hopper
- Discharge method
- Aspiration system
- Basket/Tank shape
- Split Nut Design
- Compact footprint
- No
- Feed hopper type
- Adjustable
- Aspiration system type
- Dual-aspiration
- Blanching process control
- Manual / Automatic
- Output range customization
- 2,000-5,000 lbs/hr
- Component integration compatibility
- Compatible with existing systems