Project Description

Chili Sauce Production Line 

Chili Sauce Production Line Description

  1. Chili hot pepper sauce is very popular in East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia as cooking or food ingredient. It is composed of chili stem cutting machine, chili washing and sorting machine, chili hot pepper blanching(boiling) machine, chili hot pepper crush machine, chili hot pepper pulping machine, chili hot pepper sauce blending preparation system, chili sauce homogenizing, sterilizing and filling machine, CIP cleaning machine, RO water treatment system.
  2. The ingredients of the chili sauce mainly include sugar, water, salt, onion, garlic, spices, seasonings, etc. These ingredients’ preparation and mixing will proceed in powder mixing tanks or high-shear dissolving tanks.
  3. The capacity of the chili sauce production line is from 500L/H-10000L/H, and the end products can be filled into PET or glass bottles, jars, pouches or sachets.
  4. Commercial chili sauce production involves several steps, including selecting high-quality chili peppers, cleaning and crushing them, cooking and blending them with other ingredients such as vinegar, salt, and sugar, sterilizing the mixture, and packaging it in a suitable container for distribution to retailers and consumers.
  5. Chili sauce will be pasteurized by one tube pasteurizer or cooking tank before filling, and to ensure the shelf life of the end products, the chili sauce container will perform secondary pasteurizing after filling with the spray type or water bath type pasteurizer.
  6. The whole chili pepper sauce equipment is configured freely according to clients’ budgets and filling containers.
  7. The chili hot pepper sauce machine is made of food-grade SUS304 material, it is the ideal equipment for food processing plants.
  8. According to clients’ different requirements, hot chili sauce, fermented hot sauce or chili pepper powder can be produced.

Chili Sauce Production Line End Products and Package 

Chili hot pepper sauce: It is a hot and spicy condiment and seasoning, which is rich in vitamin, sodium, calcium, carbohydrate, and essential food ingredients. The end chili sauce will be filled into consumable packages like bottles, four sides sealed sachets or pouches.

Fermented chili pepper sauce: The fresh chili pepper will be washed, crushed and milled into 3-4mm chili pepper pieces, then the chili mash will be pumped into fermentation tank/barrels, after fermentation, the chili pepper mash will be mixed with 1-2mm garlic and ginger pieces, and then add salt, water, vinegar to mix all the ingredients together in mixing tanks, after that, the fermented chili sauce will be pasteurized and filled into glass jars, bottles or cans. In the fermentation process, the hot sauce will be fermented for 10 days at 25℃,

Chili hot pepper powder: Fresh chili pepper will be washed and graded by size, then the sorted chili pepper will be dried by belt dryer or vacuum pump dryer to 10%-12% moisture, after that the dried chili peppers will be crushed and ground into fine powder by grinder or mill, The ground chili powder is then sieved to remove any remaining chunks or impurities and to achieve a consistent texture by sieve screen. The powder is then packaged into air-tight containers or bags for distribution.

chili sauce containers

Chili Sauce Production Line Process/ Technological Flowchart

The fresh red or green chili hot pepper after harvesting, use the pepper stem cutting machine to remove the stem, then upload the chili hot pepper into air blowing washing machine to remove the sand or foreign matters, then do inspection sort out the rotten hot pepper and remove the remain stems by workers, then the high-quality chili pepper will be blanched or boiled in a blancher to soften the chili pepper, after that the soft hot peppers or chili will be sent to one chopper to crush the pepper into mash, and following that, the pulping machine will remove the seeds and break further into the puree. After that, the chili pepper paste will be blended with other ingredients, then after homogenizing, degassing then filled into bottles or sachets.

Chili hot Pepper sauce processing line technological flowchart

Key Machine Of Chili Sauce Production Line 

Chili pepper stem cutting machine

This equipment is mainly used for the removal of dry and wet chili pepper handles. The equipment has high cutting rate, low pepper loss and high efficacy. It can adapt to different varieties and chili hot pepper types. It is an important equipment for the processing of bulk chili hot peppers, which can replace a large number of workers and greatly improve work efficiency. It not only greatly increases the output, but also removes the bends of the peppers, which greatly solves the difficult handling of the chili hot peppers in the agricultural market today.

The main working principle: during the rolling process of the drum, the outer cutter and the wall of the sieve cylinder produce a mechanical twisting force on the hot pepper handle which penetrates the sieve hole, so as to achieve the purpose of removing the chili hot pepper handle.

Chili pepper stem cutting machine

Chili hot pepper washing and sorting machine

This chili washing machine is made of SUS304 material, water is used as the medium, and the air bubbles are formed by the strong flow turbine fan to roll and clean the chili pepper flexibly. While cleaning, spray pipes and nozzles are added to the upper part of the mesh belt, and the high-pressure water pump is used for circulating spraying, which effectively suppresses the pepper floating and material cleaning.

The chili hot pepper inspect conveyor is used to sort out the low-quality peppers, it is belt mesh conveyor and can meet 5-6 workers operate at the same time.

chili pepper washing machine
Chili pepper sorting machine

Chili hot pepper drying machine

The chili pepper drying machine is a specialized equipment used to dry chili peppers efficiently and quickly in the industrial food processing field. There are several types of chili pepper drying machines, each with its own unique features and advantages. Here are some common types of chili pepper drying machines:

  • Belt drying machine: A belt drying machine uses a conveyor belt to move the chili peppers through a heated chamber. As the peppers move through the chamber, they are dried by the hot air circulating around them. This method is ideal for drying large quantities of chili peppers quickly and efficiently.
  • Heat pump drying machine: In this type of machine, the chili peppers are placed inside a chamber where a heat pump circulates hot air around them. The trays are stacked on top of each other, and the hot air passes through the peppers, drying them evenly.
Belt dryer

Chili hot pepper crushing and pulping machine

The chili pepper pulping machine is composed of a crushing device and a beating device, which is first crushed and then pulping the chili pepper. The use and operation are faster, and the crushing, pulping and slagging processes can be completed automatically at one time, which greatly reduces the manual workload. At the same time, this machine has an automatic cleaning function, which is now a high-end fruit and vegetable pulp processing equipment for large-scale fruit processing plants. The chili paste after pulping, the pulp size is less than 0.6mm, and the seeds and coarse fiber will be removed.

For small capacity, we can also use the colloid mill or wet-type milling machine to crush and refine the pulp from fresh chili hot peppers. It has excellent superfine pulverization, dispersion, emulsification, homogenization, mixing and other efficiencies, after the material is processed by this machine, the particle size can reach 2-60μm, and the homogeneity can reach more than 95%. It is ideal equipment for ultra-micro processing.

Chili pepper crushing and pulping machine

Chili sauce preparation machine 

The chili sauce blending and preparation process will be in the mixing tanks, the powder ingredients will be dissolved in powder mixing tank or high shear dissolving tank, then pump into the blending tank, in blending tank, the pepper sauce, water and other auxiliary ingredients will be mixed evenly with 65-80℃. The blending tanks are SUS304 material, can be heated by electricity or steam, equipped with stir, CIP cleaning ball, temperature sensor, lever sensor, sample valve.

Chili Pepper sauce blending machine

In a smaller capacity less than 1 ton per hour, we can also use the sauce jacketed cooking kettle to make the chili sauce. We add the oil, onion, beef grains, and other flavors into the jacketed cooking kettle according to the recipe, then use the heating medium(steam, hot water, heat transfer oil), electromagnetic or electricity to heat the material in the kettle, and at the same time start the stir to mix all the ingredients evenly. The stirring method adopts a special inclined transmission, so that the stirrer and the pot body are fully contacted, and there is no dead angle for stirring in the pot, which is very suitable for processing viscous materials such as chili sauce and hot pot base material.

chili sauce jacketed cooking kettle

Chili sauce homogenizer, degasser and sterilizer

If you use the colloid mill to process the chili sauce, then there is no need for homogenizing process, but if you use the pulping machine, the high-pressure homogenizer needs to be used, the function is superfine and emulsification materials to make the materials more smooth.

When sterilizing chili sauce, there are two options, one will use tube pasteurizer heat the pepper sauce to 95℃, with 15-20S, then filled into bottles or sachets instantly. The other option is using a cooking tank to boil the material, then filling into containers. The cooking tank pasteurizer is suitable for small capacity lines.

Homogenizer sterilizer and degassing unit

Chili sauce filling machine 

Chili pepper sauce filling machine adopts piston-type quantitative hot filling machine.

Accurate measurement: Servo system control is adopted to ensure the accuracy of filling.

Variable speed filling: In the filling process, when the target filling volume is approaching, variable speed can be applied to realize slow filling, preventing the liquid from overflowing the bottle mouth and causing pollution.

Convenient adjustment: To change the filling capacity specification, you only need to change the parameters on the touch screen, and all filling heads can be changed in place at one time. In addition, the fine-tuning dose only needs to be adjusted on the touch screen.

chili pepper sauce bottle filling machine
bottled chili sauce packing system