Method and apparatus for continuous producing of tortilla chips

Details Method and apparatus for continuous producing of tortilla chips Method and apparatus for continuous producing of tortilla chips

1989-09-21

1990-12-18

Yeung, George

Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products

Processes

Heat treatment of food material by contact with glyceridic...

99352, 99404, 99443C, 426497, 426505, A21C 1500, A47J 3700

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049785486

ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for continuous production of tortilla chips, including mixing tortilla flour and water to form a dough, rolling the dough into a coninuous sheet, cutting tortilla shapes from the sheet, moving the tortilla shapes continuously through a baking oven to produce baked products, moving the baked products continuously along an equilibration conveyor to substantially equalize the moisture content of each baked product throughout the product to form an equilibrated product, moving the equilibrated product continuously through a refrigeration unit to cool the product to form a cooled product, cutting the cooled products into chip shapes, and moving the chip shapes to a fryer to produce the tortilla chips. The frying step may be continuous or batch as desired.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3930049 (1975-12-01), Mattson
patent: 4197793 (1980-04-01), Hanson et al.

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