Potato Chips Blanching Machine

Blanching is a cooking process in food processing. A vegetable or fruit is put into boiling water for a few minutes and then plunged into cold water. Food is blanched to soften it, or to partly or fully cook it, or to remove a strong strange taste. Potato chips blanching machine is set behind potato chips cutting machine to pre-cook sliced potatoes in potato chips line. There are three models which can meet your requirement on yield.
During blanching, potato chips’ flavor, color, texture and nutritional value are altered. Water blanching minimizes the leaching of solid, which leaves more natural sugars in products and it improves flavor retention and color retention to produce a final product with superior flavor, texture and color.

Functions of Blanching Machine in A Potato Chips Line
Blanching machine is one necessary pre-cooking device used in fruit, vegetable and meat deep-processing.
1. Blanching can inactive enzymes and reduce microbial loads to improve food safety and increase shelf life.
2. For potatoes that become french fries, blanching also leaches sugars to improve product texture and color.
3. For some ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, blanching machine has the pre-cook functions.
4. For nuts, blanching can facilitate peeling or kill microbes, depending on the temperature and duration of the blanching operation.