Effortlessly Effective Batch Frying
The BatchWright™ system produces uniformly fried kettle-style potato chips and other root snack products at a rate of 620-650 lbs./hour. Its direct-fired heating system optimizes space, enhances energy efficiency, and lowers operating costs. The integrated Stir Assist automatically stirs slices during cooking, preventing clustering and ensuring consistent quality. Multi-stage external filtration systems and an internal sediment removal system work together to minimize oil degradation, enhancing the taste, appearance, and shelf life of your products.
Product Testing and Development Program
We can help you develop the most efficient seasoning and coating process for your specific needs, through our product testing and development program. With two complete seasoning systems available, our technicians are prepared and ready to help you test powder, oil or slurry applications. Contact your local area sales manager or call 1.800.523.8123 for further information.
BatchWright™ Advantages
Engineered for consistent and uniform feeding of potato slices to the BatchWright, this integrated system features the Potato Feed Auger, Slicer, and High-Speed Slice Conveyor. Together, they ensure the precise, rapid, and safe delivery of perfectly sliced potatoes, enhancing efficiency and reducing waste.
- Potato Feed Auger: Dual augers with a single drive and variable speed for efficient product feeding.
- Slicers: Features customer-preferred FAM or Urschel slicers for precise cuts and a self-contained control panel for easy operation.
- High-Speed Slice Conveyor: Durable belt conveyor ensures efficient slice transfer to the fryer with high-speed capabilities.
The Stir Assist system automatically agitates slices during cooking and guides finished chips to the discharge conveyor. This process prevents slice clumping, ensures consistent chip quality across batches, and improves operational safety.
- Single stir arm design with optional dual arm for enhanced stirring efficiency.
- Teflon arms eliminate contamination risks by removing mounting bolts.
- Proximity sensors accurately detect home and end travel positions.
The BatchWright incorporates PPM’s Immersion Tube system, a direct-fired tubular arrangement submerged within the fryer’s oil bed. This design minimizes piping and overall complexity, allowing for faster attainment of frying temperatures and reduced cooling times for cleaning.
- Modulating burner is fully controllable via HMI, allowing customers to adjust and replicate frying curves for medium and hard bite chips.
- Achieves up to 85% efficiency with burner and immersion tube.
- Single serpentine immersion tube ensures even cooking temperatures and has wider spacing for easier cleaning.
Oil maintenance systems are designed for specific products and the fines produced during frying. Most applications require one or more systems, including a drum filter, secondary centrifugal filter, or a pressure paper filter.
Standard inclusions:
- Centrifugal “pre-filter” removes fines down to 75 microns.
- Pressure filter removes fines down to 5-10 microns.
- Continuous sediment removal system utilizes a belt conveyor and discharge auger to extract sunken fines within the fryer.
- Demister captures oil at the fryer stack, extending fryer lifespan and ensuring compliance with environmental regulations.
- Wire mesh takeaway belt allows excess oil to drip off the product, while the oil recapture system automatically recycles the oil back into the fryer.
The BatchWright fryer hood has been developed to protect and preserve the quality of the frying oil by creating a steam barrier that helps limit oxygen exposure, stabilizes temperatures, and controls volatile vapor.
Features and benefits:
- Auto lift hood raises to provide safe, easy access for cooling, cleaning, or maintenance.
- Clean-in-place spray system is built into the fryer hood.
- Condensation runs along the inside of the hood and down into condensation channels connected to one or more drains. This prevents contamination of the oil due to “re-dripping”.
Interactive Product Development
PPM’s application engineers and product development specialists will help develop the frying system that’s right for your unique product concept.
Service & Support
We offer installation assistance and commissioning with specialized technicians and engineers available for onsite training. Whether establishing best practices, understanding maintenance requirements, or developing initial process specifications, our service teams remain committed to providing unrivaled support to ensure long-term success for our customers worldwide.
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Confections
Extruded Products
Snack Foods
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