Water cooker for fresh pasta processing
Enhance cooking precision and product quality with this water cooker, designed to control water temperature and remove excess starch, ensuring optimal humidity and texture for pasta and snacks.
Cooks and Hydrates Pasta and Snack Products
The CF Water Cooker from GEA is engineered to streamline the cooking and humidity control of pasta and snack products in automated production environments. Featuring a stainless-steel construction, this cooker operates with a precise water temperature control system via an external heat exchanger managed through a PLC, ensuring even cooking. This machine excels in diverse applications, including penne pasta and vegetable crisps production, handling both solid and liquid products with ease. Integrating seamlessly into existing production lines, the cooker offers a processing capacity ranging from 750 to 1200 mm belt width and 3 to 25 m cooking lengths. Its energy efficiency is enhanced by recirculation pumps and adjustable jets that maintain consistent temperature and prevent product stickiness. The cooker includes advanced cleaning features such as a multilayer automated opening system and rinsing ramps, drastically reducing downtime for maintenance. Optional enhancements allow for starch control and minimizing water waste, making it an optimal choice for food processing companies looking to boost quality while managing resources efficiently.
Benefits
- Increases production efficiency with continuous, automated operations.
- Ensures product quality by maintaining precise cooking and humidity levels.
- Reduces cleaning time and maintenance with easy-access design and rinsing system.
- Minimizes water waste using a controlled recirculation and starch removal system.
- Facilitates seamless integration into existing production lines.
- Applications
- Snacks,Breakfast cereals,Fresh pasta,Pasta
- End products
- Cornflakes,Granola bars,Fusilli pasta,Tortellini,Ramen noodles,Vegetable crisps,Potato chips,Ravioli,Penne pasta
- Steps before
- Pasta loading,Ingredient preparation
- Steps after
- Humidity control,Product cooling,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- pasta,snacks,breakfast cereals,fresh pasta
- Output ingredients
- cooked pasta,cooked snacks,cooked breakfast cereals,increased humidity 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.
- Belt width
- 750-1200 mm
- Cooking length
- 3-25 m
- Number of belts
- Up to 2
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Water temperature accuracy
- ±1°C
- Heating system
- External heat exchanger steam/water
- Working mechanism
- Conveying belt inside cooking tank
- Integrated steps
- Cooking,humidity increase
- Batch vs continuous operation
- Continuous
- Product immersion method
- Counter-belt with flights
- Cooking control
- PLC-regulated
- Water temperature control
- ±1°C
- Water level management
- PLC-controlled
- Cleaning method
- Automated multilayer system
- Starch removal system
- Valve with continuous removal
- Energy efficiency
- Heat exchanger steam/water system
- Cleanability
- High (stainless-steel structure,accessible design)
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Stainless steel
- Temperature resistance
- Water temperature constant +/- 1°C
- Humidity exposure
- Designed to increase product humidity
- Biological compatibility
- Food-grade materials
- Conveying belt width
- 750-1200 mm
- Cooking length
- 3-25 m
- Number of belts
- Up to 2
- Tanks shape
- Isolated and inclined for complete drain
- Material
- Stainless steel
- Control panel type
- PLC-controlled
- Control panel type
- PLC-controlled
- Belt width
- 750-1200 mm
- Cooking length
- 3-25 m
- Heating system
- External heat exchanger steam/water
- Number of belts
- Up to 2
- Water temperature regulation
- Adjustable via PLC
- Starch controlling system
- Optional
- Counter-belt with flights
- Optional for floating products
- Automated opening system
- Multilayer system
- Material
- Stainless-steel structure