Lyco Manufacturing has designed a high-volume continuous process for cooking and cooling rice with virtually 100% consistency.
The system uses two enclosed rotary drum cylinders: one for cooking and one for cooling, directly following in sequence. The drums have internal augers a perforated skin sheet is wrapped around the drums and fixed to the auger's flights. These flights gently move the rice through the cooker and cooler system while submerged in water. The rice is agitated as it advances through the cylinders.
Then it is gently deposited into a cooling drum and chilled to its programmed recipe temperature. It is then released downstream to be combined with other ingredients.
The system can process more than 4,500kg of rice an hour, with damage to the delicate rice grains less than a fraction of one percent. The auger system gently mixes the rice so that all kernels are evenly heated.
The subsequent cooling process with the gentle auger mixing handles the kernels carefully, even when the rice needs to be chilled longer to bring the temperature down to 4°C for use in frozen meals.
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Lyco Manufacturing
Tel: 001 920 623 4152