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EBook: Heat Transfer Capabilities For Batch Cooking Operations

The ThermaBlend Cooker is designed to cook large batches of food evenly and efficiently, with superior heat distribution and cycle times. The guide, “Cooking Efficiencies” is a deep dive into the components of ThermaBlend Cookers and Mixer-Cookers that generate heat transfer and thermal processing, including: ASME Engineering and ConstructionThe ThermaBlend Cooker’s pressurized jacket is engineered … eBook: Heat Transfer Capabilities for Batch Cooking Operations

Video: Thermal Screw Mixer-Cooker

The Mixer Cooker is an important equipment solution for achieving homogeneous batch consistency and efficient large-scale cooking. In the video example, the Thermal Screw Mixer Cooker demonstrates indirect cooking technology using hot water. Heat JacketHot water circulates in the jacket and transfers heat to the product in the Mixer Cooker. The jacket is designed to … Video: Thermal Screw Mixer-Cooker

Video: ThermaBlend Cooker Capabilities Tour

In one versatile solution, the ThermaBlend® Industrial Cooker provides excellent cooking, searing, caramelizing, chilling, sautéing, and blending. CookingThe ThermaBlend® Cooker is designed with a steam or hot water (ASME) jacket with gentle agitation that evenly heats the product through forced convection. In some applications, culinary steam is directly injected into the product to accelerate the … Video: ThermaBlend Cooker Capabilities Tour

1 Cooker Vs 2 Cookers: What Is Best For My Application?

Mepaco engineers cooking equipment for specific production and processing applications. While some food processing customers know the size, type, and required performance of the cooker equipment, other customers come to Mepaco for directional discussions comparing cooker production scenarios and system capabilities. Considerations for choosing one (1) cooker or (2) two cookers for your application, depend … 1 Cooker Vs 2 Cookers: What is Best for my Application?

7 Steps To An Application Engineered Cooking Solution

Our equipment provides and services best fit customers who need customization for their application. In this ebook, “7 Steps to a Application Engineered Cooking Solution,” our application and technical engineers outline our process from concept to delivery, focusing on the ThermaBlend Cooker with customization resource charts. 1. Scope Definition Technical, experienced Mepaco® sales managers visit … 7 Steps to an Application Engineered Cooking Solution

ASME Heat Jackets For Cookers – Explained

Mepaco® cookers are designed with ASME thermal jackets. The jackets are pressurized and therefore regulated by ASME standards. The ThermaBlend® Cooker features an ASME stay bolt (also called stay-rod) constructed jacket. Mixer-cooker equipment may also have stay-bolt or dimple jacket construction. Specifically, ASME engineering and construction requirements include approved calculations, ASME-certified techniques and fabricators, testing, … ASME Heat Jackets for Cookers – Explained

7 Upgrades That Increase Cooker Production Right Now

Over time, processors might see changes in product integrity and timing that does not reflect the quality and production times intended when the equipment was commissioned. Why is this happening? When a decrease in cooker production occurs, it points to a change in the operation, process, procedure, equipment, or even operator error. Controls Monitoring and … 7 Upgrades That Increase Cooker Production Right Now

Mepaco – 90 Years In The Making

The Mepaco® brand has been around for a long time. The company began in 1932 and operated out of Oakland, California. The name Mepaco® stands for Meat Packers Equipment Company. For the first 40 years, Mepaco® was a significant equipment supplier to deli meat, sausage, and smoked meat processors. Mepaco® offered loaf molds and slicers, … Mepaco – 90 Years in the Making

Doubling Cook Batches Without Doubling Footprint

This featured system doubled cooking batches within a minimal footprint used well-planned equipment selection, floor layout, and controls customization. Mepaco®’s cooking system featured side-by-side ThermaBlend® cookers, with a shared maintenance and sanitation platform. SYSTEM FLEXIBILITY The multi-recipe prepared foods processor benefited from flexibility in production scenarios. The system can run two batches at once, staggered, … Doubling Cook Batches without Doubling Footprint

New ThermaBlend® Test Cooker

Mepaco has a new test cooker for processors who have new products or recipes that require cooking and blending. The test cooker is a 75-gallon ThermaBlend® unit with steam injection, vacuum, pneumatic covers and doors, and dual ribbon agitators. The ThermaBlend® is designed specifically for large scale batch operations. All of the components from the … New ThermaBlend® Test Cooker

How To Know When An Agitator Is Failing

In some cases, there is a particular event that causes agitator damage such as a shovel or fork falling into a piece of processing equipment. However, there are several other signs that determine when an agitator is failing: The agitator starts developing cracks in the pipe or welds. The agitator starts rubbing the tub side wall. … How to Know When an Agitator is Failing

When To Leverage Dual Zones In Thermal Jackets For Food Processing

There are various methods to heat and cool food product in cooking equipment. The application will dictate the best combination of methods and configurations ranging from stay-bolt or dimple jacket designs, to injected steam and thermal screw heating options. On equipment solutions that use a heating jacket, a dual zone design may add versatility to … When to Leverage Dual Zones in Thermal Jackets for Food Processing

Challenges Solved By Application Engineered Solutions And Agitator Design

The Mepaco team engineers equipment and systems specific to the processing application in each thermal processing project. In mixing and blending operations, application engineering is especially important because product quality and efficiencies are at stake. The food product, viscosity, texture, cycle times, and thermal processing technology including agitator designs are considered in the best cooking … Challenges Solved by Application Engineered Solutions and Agitator Design

Why Agitator Solutions Are Important To Quality And Throughput In Cooking Operations

The type and viscosity of food product, thermal processing technology, desired texture, and cooking/processing cycle times are considered when specifying the agitator solution. Primary consideration for mixing or blending agitator solution begins with the ability for the food product to self-level. Agitator configurations also include scrapers with indirect cooking applications. In some applications, the agitator … Why Agitator Solutions are Important to Quality and Throughput in Cooking Operations

Quick Upgrades That Increase Production Right Now

1. Pull more out of your grinder Ask your grinder experts about an upgrade kit to address a different plate configuration to increase throughput. If you do not have a level sensor, contact your controls partner to add controls to turn off the grinder before it runs dry. A continuous flow of meat product will … Quick Upgrades that Increase Production Right Now

Ask The Experts-At Process Expo-The ThermaBlend Cooker

This ThermaBlend Cooker is available for customer on-site testing and we are glad to have it on display at Process Expo. In the video, Tom Hoffmann takes you on a tour of the features of this machine in our “Ask the Expert” video series that we are posting daily at Process Expo. Be sure to … Ask the Experts-At Process Expo-The ThermaBlend Cooker

Comparing Kettle Cooking To ThermaBlend Cooking

Introducing our video: Comparing kettle cooking to the ThermaBlend® Cooking Process. This video explains the heat transfer differences between a traditional kettle cooker and the ThermaBlend®. It also highlights some of the capabilities of the cooker that make it such a versatile solution for large batch cooking, such as: Efficient agitators and patented scraper system … Comparing Kettle Cooking to ThermaBlend Cooking

New White Paper: Comparing Agitator Solutions

Mepaco has recently published a new white paper, “Comparing Agitator Solutions for Food Processing Applications”. The paper, developed in collaboration with sales, engineering and applications teams, is a guide for agitation solutions in Cookers, Mixers, Blenders and Drop Tanks. In the white paper, there are many details about the technology of agitators, highlighting: ribbon, paddle, … New White Paper: Comparing Agitator Solutions

Dual Cook System Solves Flexibility For Production Scenarios

DUAL COOK SYSTEM SOLVES PRODUCTION FLEXIBILITY & CAPACITY THE CHALLEGE A multi-recipe prepared foods manufacture required an increase in cooking production and the flexibility to add more varieties of soups and sauces to their product offerings. The application required cooking and blending of viscous food product with limitations in available floor space. THE SOLUTION The … Dual Cook System Solves Flexibility for Production Scenarios

Batch Cooking And Chilling That Tastes Like It Came From Mom’s Kitchen

In the process of manufacturing fruit pie filling, the ThermaBlend™ first cooks the product to 185°F; then cools it to the proper filling temperature of 75°F. The cook step and the chill step take approximately 30 – 40 minutes each, which is critical to maintaining product integrity and reaching the production goals of this application. … Batch Cooking and Chilling that Tastes Like It Came from Mom’s Kitchen

Steam Options On ThermablendTM Cookers Designed To Suit Different Applications

The above illustration shows the direct and indirect steam capabilities that exist with both the single and double agitated ThermaBlend™ batch cookers. In the process of indirect steam heating, steam is injected into the ASME thermal outer jacket and heats the product through conduction. Since there is no added moisture to the product, the potential … Steam Options on ThermablendTM Cookers Designed to Suit Different Applications