Time to get ready for multi-phase cooking

Food technology provider JBT FoodTech has introduced multi-phase cooking to emulate home cooking processes in a factory environment.

Aimed at ready meal or finished product manufacturers, multi-phase cooking can integrate any combination of processes, and in any order, to produce the required taste, texture and appearance of finished product.

This includes any combination of coating and frying, cooking and roasting, steaming, infrared cooking, searing and grill marking, proofing, baking, chilling and freezing.

Nigel Brunyee, JBT FoodTech's systems manager, says: "The competition to create ever-more authentic ready meals is increasing. For example, at home, or in a restaurant, chicken or meat might be marinated then seared, before being cooked or roasted to provide a particular flavour or appearance.

"We can now provide all these processes and more in a factory setting, by providing different phases to produce certain finished products. Multi-phase cooking can be as flexible as required, and is as close as possible to what a chef or home cook could achieve."

Traditionally, says Brunyee, processors would consider cost and footprint as the key factors when introducing new product lines. Now they should equally consider exactly how they want a product to look and taste to maintain their competitive edge.

Contact: JBT FoodTech

Tel: 01506 862 603