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The AirFry System is meeting demand for healthier food options.
All the fry, without the fat
Heat and Control is answering the call of the rising popularity of air frying with the release of its AirFry System for food manufacturers.
THE popularity of air frying has continued to grow over the last decade and brands are looking to take advantage of new product opportunities in the market.
Equipment manufacturer Heat and Control has brought together technologies to create its AirFry System that allows food producers to create lower oil content foods.
The AirFry System creates air fried/oven fried products that have the taste, texture, and appearance of fried foods
without using traditional (submersion) frying methods.
It provides a continuous means to produce a “fried-like” product by applying a controlled volume of topical oil, followed by pressurised high velocity cooking atmosphere from an impingement oven.
Heat and Control Processing Industry manager Doug Kozenski said customers have the option for a completely new system, or could retrofit an existing impingement oven with a spray applicator system
with minimal investment. “Heat and Control wanted
to assist its customers in producing a high-quality product with fried characteristics without using the traditional submersion frying system.
“We have been working closely with the industry to develop innovative ways to adapt to consumer trends demanding low oil content,” Kozenski said.
The system utilises highly accurate Spray Dynamics Oil application equipment, which
ensures complete and uniform coverage of the product while keeping oil use to a minimum.
The most uniform and fastest air fry time in the industry is guaranteed when the Spray Dynamics equipment is paired with the highly uniform airflow and high levels of process parameter adjustment offered in Heat and Control’s AirForce Impingement Oven.
The AirFry System also works with standard batter and breading application systems. ✷
SUPPLIER SPOTLIGHT
Spiralling efficiencies
FlexCAM’s new high performance spiral conveyor system, Spiraflo, suits any food application where temperature conditioning is required.
THE Spiraflo conveyor from FlexCAM can provide flexibility and greater efficiencies for food manufacturers, with its suitability for chilling, freezing, baking, frying,proofing,pasteurising,and dwell time between processes.
It is a highly flexible and customisable solution, ideal for large volume production and tailored to a wide range of operating conditions, from -40-300°C.
The system can significantly improve operational efficiencies through its continuous operation, eliminating the need for production stops for products to be baked, cooled, or proofed.
allows a complex spiral design with unlimited belt length to fit into the tightest of spaces.
As each tier is driven by an individual sprocket off a vertical shaft, engineers can tension each sprocket individually and build conveyors of any length with no transfers.
The system can be designed with multiple belts, enabling two or more production lines to feed different spiral conveyors that share the same footprint. Production flow can also be up, down or multi-directional in the same spiral with multiple entry and exit points.
technology doesn’t require a drum, which offers many benefits to manufacturers including lower costs compared to traditional spiral systems, better airflow due to the open space in the centre, and easy access to both the internal and external surfaces for cleaning and maintenance.
The lack of a drum also eliminates the need for an overdrive and belt slippage between the drum and belt. This minimises the risk of “Christmas Treeing” and makes the product more stable compared to traditional drum spirals.
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Spiraflo can go any which way with multiple entry and exit points.
Twentebelt’s stainless steel belt range and Intralox 2700 series full Acetal belts to cater for all manufacturing environments. The system can be installed with belt lift sensors and belt cleaning systems if required.
The multi-tier system can be designed with round, oval, or P-loop layouts for the most efficientuseofspace. ✷
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