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Potato chips frying Equipment

Frying was an early method for preserving food. The most common technique, immersing foods in boiling oils, dehydrates the items and decreases microbial growth. But even with alternative decontamination and preservation methods, frying remains a popular cooking technique. The oils add complexity to the natural flavors and textures of foodstuffs. One of the main challenges of fried products is maintaining oil freshness. Industrial frying equipment processes large volumes of food homogeneously by strictly controlling the temperatures in the frying chamber. However, oil efficiency is also crucial, and temperature control must balance oil levels in the line.

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Manufacturing potato chips is a farm-to-fork process from raw material to the final product. From washing and peeling to processing and frying and more in between. Freshly harvested potatoes are first washed, peeled, and sliced into thin potato slices. After washing them again to remove the starch, potatoes are then blanched, fried, seasoned, packed, and served, ready for your consumer’s enjoyment.

Potato chips

Manufacturers of French fries and potato chips require a lot of energy for heating and cooking. With energy costs rising and emission regulations getting tighter, manufacturers are looking into sustainable and more environmental-friendly solutions for their operations. Producers can reuse energy and reduce emissions by extracting heat energy from the moisture in vapor streams generated in frying systems. This energy can be utilized in other processes, such as cleaning.


<h2>Saving energy costs by reusing heat energy from the frying process</h2>
The Energy Recovery Unit from Kuipers is a heat recovery and odor eliminating system for potato chips and French fries production. The system processes the multi-phase vapor stream containing moisture, oil particles, and odor from the frying system’s exhaust vents or chimneys. First, the oil particles are eliminated. A wire mesh demister separates the droplets from the vapor streams. Further,  the hot vapor streams move upwards the condensate tower. A collection tank at the bottom of the condensate tower collects excess moisture from the vapor in the form of warm water. Now separated from excess moisture and oil fumes, the dryer vapors contain much less odor.

An additional odor treatment system known as Odourtubes removes the remaining odor through the ozone treatment process. With this system, it is important to reuse the energy recovered immediately within the line for other purposes, such as cleaning where warm water is needed.

Energy recovery unit for potato chips production line

The key to making a flavorful and crispy bag of potato chips is the frying temperature within the frying machine. Uniform cooking conditions ensure a consistent taste, bite, and color when it comes to potato chips processing. But maintaining steady temperatures across the entire processing line can be challenging, particularly when frying potato chips at high capacities.


<h2>Distribute the frying temperature evenly with multiple oil injection points</h2>
The semi automatic Potato chips production line frying plant from Kuipers uses multiple fully automatic oil injection points to deliver even temperature distribution within the potato chips machine. Manufacturers can manage heat across the width and length of the system to maintain optimum frying conditions throughout the whole process. Distinct oil injection zones facilitate temperature control which needs to be optimal for quality, tasty products.

A full turnkey system for producing potato chips is included in this production line. The machine includes washing, peeling machine, cutting potato slices, blanching, packing machine and most importantly, fries potato chips. For a small scale or full scale potato chips plant, this stainless steel production line does it all so you can successfully make potato chips from start to finish including packaging.

The chip fryer is designed for processing all styles of potato-based fried snacks, including chips, sticks, and hard-bite-style crisps. As well as sweet potato chips, banana chips and french fry style crisps. Capacities are offered from 250 kilograms per hour output to 1000 kilograms per hour output depending on oil volume. The best oil will produce the best final product.

Potato chips production line

<span style="font-weight: 400;">From cassava to sweet potatoes, various types of vegetables are processed to make one mixed bag of vegetable chips. Mainly consisting root vegetables like taro and parsnip, vegetable chips are often introduced as a healthy alternative to potato chips. To make these chips, you first need to slice the vegetables and cook them depending on your product; you can simply bake them or fry them, deep fry them, or dry them. After this process, flavorings are added to the chips. </span>

Vegetable chips

Kuipers Food Processing Machinery specializes in the technology for the frying and processing of snacks, savouries, nuts, seeds and potato products.

Water is one of our most precious assets, and we are not making good use of it. It has been estimated that by 2030, half the population will face water scarcity problems due to climate change, water pollution and a growing population. The manufacturing industry consumes between 20-40% of all available freshwater, so the question arises: what are manufacturers doing to reduce water consumption in the industry?

We broached the subject with Valeria Lucinschi, from <a href="https://kuipers.nu/">Kuipers Food Processing Machinery</a> to learn how this works in potato chip production.


<h2>Potato chip producers use on average eight cubic meters of water per hour. Wait, what?</h2>
Yes, you heard it right. On an industrial scale, producers consume 8 m<sup>3</sup> of water per hour when making potato chips. Water is used in almost all preparation steps and is essential when preparing potato slices before frying. And not just for cleaning purposes as you may be thinking. After being washed for the first time and peeled, the potatoes are sliced and rewashed to remove some of the starch. If this step is not done well, it can greatly affect the quality of the end product as well as the frying process. Starch can block the evaporation of moisture from the potato when frying by leading to a browning reaction. If this happens, forget your crispy and golden-colored chips.

It is recommended to have a good slice washing system to wash the potatoes very carefully, mainly when the blanching is not applied. Although producers may skip this step, especially when potatoes are fresh, it is generally advised to blanch to ensure a smoother deep frying process. If blanching is applied, slices must pass a final washing and drying to remove any adherent particles and water before frying.
<h2>Reduce water consumption in your potato chip production line by 60%</h2>
Back to our question now. What are producers doing to reduce these eight cubic meters of water?

Valeria explained that Kuipers has reduced water consumption in the potato chip production line by recycling water from one stage to another. This can be done thanks to a water treatment system that only uses fresh water at one stage of production - to be clear when potatoes are on the spreading belt that blows water to wash them just before frying. From here, the system recycles the water that goes back to the previous stages. The water is filtered through a cyclone system that cleans it and removes the starch so it can be reused again. The Kuipers water system technology uses up to 60% less water than conventional systems, meaning they use 4 m<sup>3 </sup>per hour on average.

How to reduce your water footprint when making potato chips

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Our food chain starts in the soil, growing crops and livestock. But between the fields and the stores, there is a line of industrial food processing equipment. Processes may be as minimalistic as cleaning fruit and as complex as homogenizing milk alternatives made from pressed legumes. In each case, processing technology is an important link in the food production chain.

A snack is a small portion of food ready to eat and simple and fast to prepare. People usually consume snacks during the day between traditional meals such as breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Snack foods include simple products such as nuts, dried fruits, peanuts as well as packaged and processed foods. Puffed corn products made by extrusion or flavored potato chips are examples of processed foods.

Snacks

If you are starting your own production for potato chips or expanding your brand to include fried potato snacks, you need a complete and cost-efficient production line. A solution that ensures minimal loss of raw material and efficient use of water and energy while maintaining excellence in taste, colour and texture of your fried potato snacks.


<h2>A complete and sustainable solution for frying potato products</h2>
<a href="https://making.com/equipment/potato-chips-production-line/">Kuipers’ complete processing and frying lines for various potato products</a> provide a turnkey solution of turning raw potato input into delicious deep-fried snacks until packaging. It offers a customized approach to process potato  products which consequently ensures efficiency throughout the line.

The frying line for potato chips uses gentle heat transfer to heat up the frying oil and ensure that your product is evenly fried. The production plant is a continuous and fully automatic operation. It starts with receiving the raw potatoes and includes the necessary potato washing and de-stoning equipment to clean and prevent damage to the peeling and slicing or dicing units. In the peeling stage, it applies batch type, abrasive peeling. It is also equipped with a blancher to reduce the sugar content from the potato slices and prevent quick dark colouring The plant also includes a smart water treatment system which allows the lowest possible water usage in the industry, reducing it by three hundred per cent.

Kuipers’ systems provide you with an option for frying oil heating via a thermal oil heater or electrical elements. Apart from potato chips, Kuipers also designs and manufactures small French fries factories for either frozen or chilled end products. The chips line can also be used to produce potato sticks.

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Do you have a guilty pleasure? Do you pause while walking down the supermarket's chips and fried snacks aisle? If the answer to those questions is yes, do you ever wonder about the journey of a raw potato from a farm up to the crispy, crunchy, and salty goodness that goes into your mouth? It involves many steps, from the raw potato input to peeling, slicing, and <a href="https://making.com/equipment/potato-blanching-machine">blanching the potato</a> until it is fried and coated with your favorite <a href="https://making.com/products/spices">flavors and spices</a>. With growing competition in the fried snack industry, these steps must be carried out carefully and consistently to produce the highest quality chips.


<h2>From farm to the fryer</h2>
The availability of raw inputs combined with a high local and global demand provides <a href="https://making.com/products/food">food processing</a> companies and local farmers with many growth opportunities. A regular <a href="https://making.com/potato-chips/">potato chip plant</a> makes thousands of chips every hour. The potatoes are washed and de-stoned to ensure they are clean and prevent damage to the peeling, slicing, or dicing units. In the peeling stage, batch type, abrasive peeling takes place. The potatoes then move along a belt to a slicing machine that slices them quickly using a razor-sharp blade. Ripple potato chips are cut by a serrated knife. It is then transported into a blancher to reduce the sugar content from the potato slices to prevent quick dark coloring and maintain product quality. These potato slices are then put into a vat of boiling vegetable oil with special <a href="https://making.com/deep-frying-equipment">deep fryer equipment</a>. As the potato chips cook, the water inside them turns to steam. After this, they are collected, drained, salted, and then ready to be packaged.
<h2>Producing the perfect bite</h2>
The fried snack market around the world is constantly growing. The main factors facilitating this growth include lifestyle changes, increased urbanization levels, and simply because the population has access to many more snacks than in previous years. This makes optimal production and quality control of utmost importance. The transportation of your product through the fryer must be perfectly done. Every piece must have the same frying time and no possibility of staying behind and burning. The <a href="https://making.com/technologies/frying">industrial fryers</a> for making potato chips are a continuous and fully automated production plant that ensures gentle heat transfer to heat the frying oil so that your chips/crisps are evenly fried. It also prevents the degradation of the oil quality, allowing you the lowest possible oil turnover needed!

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