Process 08
Steam cookers for peeled potatoes and potato slices
In many lines, peeling is followed by cooking with saturated steam – as a preliminary stage for potato flakes production or for chilled convenience products.
Process 08
Cooking: our designs
Every design is engineered for your raw product, its degree of soiling and your target capacity.
Steam cooker
Cooks peeled potatoes and slices with a defined residence time, ready for direct connection to cooling or drum dryers.
Design
What matters when sizing the machine.
This is the information we need to recommend the right design and size for you.
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Cooking target
Fully cooked as a preliminary stage for potato flakes, or part-cooked for chilled convenience products.
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Piece size
Whole potatoes take considerably longer than slices for the core to reach the target temperature.
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Residence time
It defines how long the product stays in saturated steam and is matched to piece size and cooking target.
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Connection
Is it followed by cooling or a drum dryer? The transfer is designed accordingly.
Position in the chain
Adjacent process steps
What comes directly before and after.
Frequently asked questions
Cooking: frequently asked questions
For cooking peeled potatoes and potato slices in saturated steam at a defined residence time. It is typically used as a preliminary stage for potato flake production or for chilled convenience products.
It is a core component of the potato flakes line and of convenience production.
On piece size and cooking target. Whole potatoes take considerably longer than slices for the core to reach the target temperature, and fully cooked is designed differently from part-cooked.
We match the residence time in saturated steam to both. We do not quote a blanket number of minutes, because without your produce it tells you nothing.
The steam cooker connects directly to a cooling stage or to the drum dryer. The transfer is designed for whatever follows the cooker.
For cooling there is the cooling screw conveyor, which conveys at the same time and so saves a transfer point.
Next step
Does this machine fit into your line?
Send us your product, capacity and the interfaces to your existing equipment. We will check the integration and tell you honestly if it does not fit.
