Ready and frozen meals
Composite meals contain many ingredients from different suppliers. Each is a possible source of contamination, and frozen ingredients must be made ready for production quickly.
Typical challenges
Many ingredients
A bone in meat, a stone in vegetables, glass from a jar of sauce.
Trays and bowls
Products in plastic and aluminium trays.
Frozen ingredients
Meat, vegetables and sauces from the freezer needed for today's production.
How we can help
Inspection of ready meals
X-ray inspects ready meals in trays, including aluminium trays where a metal detector does not work.
X-rayTempering ingredients
Meat, vegetables and grilled aubergine from −18 °C to −2 °C in 5–7 minutes.
Microwave tempering Tempering payback calculatorFrom practice
Tempering poultry for ready meals: 15 minutes instead of 48 hours
A frozen ready-meal producer thawed chicken, turkey and rabbit for two days in a thawing room with steam. A NutriTemp Flex continuous microwave tunnel now tempers the meat in under 15 minutes and saves over €400,000 a year.
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X-ray or metal detector? What pays off at the end of the line
A metal detector is cheaper but only finds metal. X-ray also detects glass, stone and bone, sees through metal packaging and stores an image of every piece. A comparison of the two and when X-ray pays off.
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18 tonnes of meat a day: tempering instead of 18 hours of thawing
A sausage producer thawed blocks of pork, chicken and beef in open air for over 18 hours. A NutriTemp Batch microwave unit now tempers them in under 5 minutes with no water loss.
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Solutions for ready and frozen meals
Tell us what you produce and what you need to solve. We will recommend a technology and arrange a test with your product.
- We help you choose and prepare a tailored quote
- We arrange a test with your product
- We help with subsidies and financing
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