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Product performance

The Bichsel cooking method offers the user a series of decisive advantages.

The direct transfer of energy into the product being processed, along with a fine-tuned control system deliver the following advantages:

• The process control system divides the cooking procedure into a series of steps, allowing hitherto unknown levels of control accuracy.

• The temperature zones assigned to each part of the process can be controlled individually as the warm-up to cooking temperature progresses.

• The grain that is being cooked absorbs the heated liquid far more efficiently, thus considerably accelerating the heating up of the product.

• This ensures that the product is cooked faster and more consistently.

• The cooker is suitable for both simple and complex cooking processes.

The improvements in performance at a glance:

• The quality of the cooked product is considerably higher, which becomes apparent as it is subjected to further processing, with (in the case of corn flakes, for example) homogenous surface blistering and consistent coloration

• Higher filling capacities and shorter cooking times deliver improvements in performance of up to 20%.

• The direct transmission of energy into the product being cooked, plus its controlled ventilation, mean energy savings of up to 25%.

• Energy consumption during the downstream drying process is reduced by up to 30%.

• Time savings of 10% to 15% per cooking cycle.

• The process-control system is simple to operate.