BCH industrial cooking kettles & mixing kettles have been designed to meet the stringent quality assurance and hygiene requirements of the food manufacturing industry.
Industrial Cooking Kettles
Our industrial cooking kettles and mixing kettles cover a wide variety of cooking, mixing and blending applications across a whole range of products for the food, confectionery and pharmaceutical industries. An impressive basic build specification is complimented by an extensive choice of optional features, adding yet further processing versatility.
A range of atmospheric standard steam jacketed kettles fitted with a 4/6 bar G steam jacket, available with a variety of mixer and processing configurations.
Features
- Fabricated throughout in stainless steel
- Steam jacket pressures of up to 7 bar G
- Working capacities range between 10 and 5000 litres
- Custom sizes available engineered in line with the latest safety standards
- Atmospheric, Pressure, Direct Steam & Vacuum versions available
- Premix System & Open Pans also available
Optional Features
- Load Cells
- Liquid Metering
- High Shear Mixing & Homogenising
- Starch Slurry Systems
- Pumping Systems
- Fat Melting
- Bin Hoists
- Ingredient Handling
Pressure Cooking Kettles
Our modern, state-of-the-art pressure cookers are versatile and convenient to use and entirely operator friendly, often with the ability to combine several cooking stages into one industrial cooking kettle. Our unique totally enclosed cooking method ensures that cooking vapour is contained, and valuable steam energy isn’t needlessly wasted.
The use of pressure greatly reduces the simmering time required to soften meat, often reducing this simmer time from hours to minutes.
Taking proven technology, BCH have brought the pressure cooking concept bang up to date by incorporating our latest completely flexible recipe handling systems, with a range of impressive optional add-ins, as well as adding improvements to the control philosophy and safety features.
Choosing an industrial kettle comes down to batch size, product viscosity and how the vessel will be cleaned. BCH industrial kettles are built in working capacities from 50 to 5000 litres in atmospheric, pressure and vacuum versions, so the kettle is matched to the recipe rather than the recipe to the kettle.
Common questions about sizing, installation and cleaning are answered in our industrial cooking kettle FAQs.
- Time saving – potentially reducing cooking time by up to 70%
- Money saving – shorter cooking time, high energy efficiency, lower energy costs
- Space saving – replace multiple appliances with one piece of equipment
- Healthy – pressure cooking preserves 90% of vitamins, nutrients and minerals
- Versatile – can be used for multiple purposes including steaming, sautéing, caramelisation, bratting, braising or frying, when used at lower volumes.
- Clean – vapours are contained. All cooking surfaces are enclosed and cleaned in place
- Food safety – high temperatures ensure that bacteria is killed and food is safe
Atmospheric Cooking Kettles
The BCH atmospheric industrial cooking kettle range has been designed to meet quality assurance and hygiene requirements of the food manufacturing industry. Each vessel promises savings in manpower and energy consumption, together with a lifetime of reliable service.
Using the 4 bar steam jacket in combination with the variable speed, scraped surface mixer, products can be produced consistently to the highest standards.
- Stainless steel construction throughout
- Steam jacket pressure of up to 4 Bar G
- Single pieced hinged PTFE scrapers
- Fully welded insulation jacket fitted with chlorine free mineral wool
- Flange mounted agitator drive unit with easy access to shaft coupling & mechanical seal
Tilting Cooking Kettles
BCH manufactures a range of specialist tilting discharge kettles fitted with horizontal scraped surface agitation, which can be designed to meet your production needs.
They can incorporate atmospheric or pressure cooking, with the option of vacuum cooking or cooling. Hydraulically tilting and lid lifting is standard – allowing the kettle to discharge from a low risk preparation environment into a separate high care production zone.
Ruggedly built, these industrial cooking kettles offer a flexible process solution with the capability to be able to handle viscous and dry products.
- Stainless Steel construction throughout
- 10 bar steam jacket
- Scraped surface agitator
- Temperature probe with automatic steam control.
- Large bore 75mm diameter manual outlet valve.
- Hinged manway with safety interlock and inspection port.
- Capacity of up to 1000 Litres (UK)