Cooking-melting-kneading & moulding machine specifically designed to produce mozzarella, pizza-cheese, burrata and analogue cheese by using fresh curd, frozen curd (previously thawed/defrosted) and/or food ingredients and powders. This compact unit is perfectly suitable for small, artisan and R&D productions aiming to automate the processing or product trials but still prefer to keep production quantities small.
The compact cooker-stretcher & moulder is composed of:
- A cooking, kneading and stretching section with counter-rotating and independent augers and direct steam heating
- A moulding section with two augers and heated jacket
- A PLC control panel for the automatic control of the process providing the possibility of setting and saving up to 20 different recipes
Features
- Compact dimensions
- Easy use and operation
- Great production flexibility and excellent performance for small artisan and laboratory production
- Batch working
- Steam cooking stretching & melting machine
- Direct steam injection through the steam injectors
- Adjustable speed of the stretching and kneading augers
- Independent control of the direction of rotation of each auger and independent control of the rotational speed of each auger in order to control in the best possible way the product mixing, kneading & stretching of the cheese / product mass that becomes rich of fibers and very stretchy
- Product and ingredients inlet opening
- No need of prior cutting of the curd / cagliata
- Adjustable work time of each batch
- Temperature probe in the stretching section
- Automatic control of the temperature
- Product discharge / outlet with door operated manually
- Equipped with frequency converters (one for each auger) which make the operation extremely simple. Speed regulation done via push buttons located on the control panel.
- Moulding section with hopper that can contain up to 25 kg of cheese
- Adjustable speed of the moulding augers
- Temperature probe in the moulding section
- Control panel for automatic PLC-control
Optional features
- Drums for moulding mozzarella ball shape from 1 to 500 grams
- Drums for moulding scamorza, provola and "pear" "ball-on-ball" shapes of various sizes
- Drums for special products and shapes
- Device for the moulding cylindrical or brick shape products up to 3 kg with one forming tube
- Extruding device for continuous cords of cheese
- Extruding device for flat cheese dough sheet "sfoglia"
