The sauce is an essential condiment when people cooking and eating. However, there are some differences between Asian and European and American countries in the consumption of sauces. Most East Asian and Southeast Asian countries eat soybean sauce, mushroom sauce, chili sauce or curry paste, garlic sauce, etc.; European and American countries are used to eating tomato sauce, mayonnaise, peanut butter and custard sauce, marinades. In addition to some of these various sauces are made in the family kitchen, most of them are processed on industrial scale to meet the needs of the market. Today we will introduce that in industrial production, the sauce and dressing processing line frequently asked questions(FAQ):
Q: What ingredients can we add in sauce and dressing processing?
A: When making the sauces and dressings, sugar, water, salt, vinegar are the most used ingredients to increase the flavor, but it is totally flexible for each sauce when adding the ingredients. For example, when we proceed with mayonnaise, edible oil and yolk are essential ingredients; When we make the tomato sauce, we will add tomato paste, sugar and water.
Therefore, when a customer decides to make a certain sauce, they can go to the local market to see the competitor’s sauce recipe, or they can conduct research with local consumers to find out their taste preferences.
Q: What sauce and dressings can your machine make?
A: Our Machinery can process tomato sauce, hot pepper/chili sauce, mayonnaise, onion garlic sauce and other fruit vegetable sauce/jam according to different machines and technological flowcharts.
Q: What is the capacity of sauce and dressing processing with an industrial scale?
A: The capacity is from 200kg-5000kg per hour, and different capacities, the process method has little difference.
When the capacity goes for 200-500kg per hour, we suggest you can produce in batch. The batch production line is flexible, small investment. The machine for the batch production is also simple, usually it will be one dissolving tank, one vacuum blending and pasteurization tank, material pumps and pipes.
When the capacity is above 500kg per hour, a continuous production line is adopted, it has the feature of high-efficiency production, high sanitation, and producing premium products. According to clients’ requirements, we can equip automatic ingredients adding system, automatic weighing system, automatic material mixing system, online emulsification system, automatic homogenization, sterilization system.
Q: What containers can we fill for the sauces and dressings?
A: The sauces and dressings after fully mixed and pasteurized, can be filled into small containers (10g-5000g) such as glass jars, metal cans, sachets or bottles.
To extend the shelf life of the sauce or dressings, during the filling process, some food preservation technologies will also be adopted such as liquid nitrogen filling technology or vacuum filling and sealing technology.
Q: All the sauces and dressings need to be pasteurized before filing?
A: Generally speaking, all the sauce and dressings need to pasteurize before they are filled into the containers. Because the sauce is a viscous fluid with high nutritional value, so it is a breeding ground for bacteria, after fully mixing and emulsifying, the pasteurizer will be adopted.
As the sauces and dressings are in high viscosity, when pasteurizing, the tube in tube pasteurizer or scraped surface heat exchanger will be used.
But there are some exceptions, like mayonnaise, because it may cause protein denaturation during heat sterilization. So we usually do not pasteurize the mayonnaise, but the whole process is in a vacuum state.
In addition, there are some high value-added natural sauces, and non-thermal sterilization techniques can also be used, such as the use of ultra-high pressure machines to treat the material to keep all the nutrition and flavor in the sauce or dressing.
Q: What equipment will be included in a sauce and dressing processing plant?
A: it will include ingredients adding and dissolving system, ingredients vacuum mixing and emulsification system, sauce homogenizing, pasteurizing system, sauce filling and sealing system, sauce in container secondary pasteurizing and cooling system, packing system.
Q: What is the shelf life of the end products(sauce and dressing)?
A: Because the sauce is a highly viscous material, and many sauces will add salt or vinegar, the pasteurized material should be stored at room temperature for 12-24 months under good sealing conditions.
Q: What is the material of the sauce and dressing processing machines?
A: All the machines are made of SUS304/316L food-grade material, but if the sauces or dressings add the salt, all the sauce contact material needs to be SUS316L material.
Q: How much does it cost for a sauce and dressing processing plant?
A: The cost depends on your capacity and the production line automatic degree. We take 1000kg per hour sauce production plant as an example, for the batch type production line, the equipment cost is about 100,000-300,000USD; But for the automatic continuous production line, the cost will be 10 times higher than the batch type and reach 1 million USD.
Q: What service do you offer after we buy your sauce and dressings processing machines?
A: After the machine is finished making, we will look for the shipping forwarder to deliver the goods to your factory, then you prepare the water, electricity, steam and compressed air, and our after service engineers team will travel to your site for machine installation, commissioning and trainee. Until you accept and confirm the service and our engineer’s team can leave.
Q: What is the warranty of your sauce and dressings processing machine?
A: After the machine arrived to your site, all machines will enjoy 12 months warranty, during this time, if the machine breaks down or need to replace the spare parts, we offer free debugging and fixing service along with the spare parts. After 12 months, we still offer paid repair service, replacement parts and free consult service. When we receive an after-sales service order, our after-sales service team will respond and deal with it within 24 hours.
