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Category: Pasta Cooking

COOKED, CHILLED & MIXED TO PERFECTION

Included among the many benefits of the Vortex is the ability to automatically cook, and uniformly mix two, three or more products, each with different cook times simultaneously.  This enables our customers to produce ready meals and salads with a mix of grains, pasta or pulses etc without the need to cook, chill and hold the individual products separately and then mix as a further process.  The Vortex is a fully automatic process with the individual products loaded into the cook…

THE VORTEX MINI GOES AUTOMATED

The highly successful semi – automatic Vortex Mini 400/2 Cook and combined Quench/Chill system is now available fully automated.    The Mini 400/2 automatic is menu driven with up to 100 recipes covering all cook and chill parameters, drain times and frequency of water exchange. It is additionally equipped with tote bin lifter for automatic product feed from 200l tote bins, removeable and interlocked side guards enabling safe and easy access as well as auto drain and overflow valves.  The operator…

MAJOR NEW LASAGNE AND CANNELLONI LINES INSTALLED

When a major UK food producer wanted to produce Lasagne and Cannelloni at a new location, they chose VORTECH. The quality of the Pasta was of paramount importance and Vortech was the clear choice with our experience of pasta production spanning nearly a century. The client has multiple installations of the market leading VORTEX COOK QUENCH CHILL and other standalone Pasta Making Equipment. Each new line produces in excess of 60 meals per minute of various sizes of Lasagne and…

The Vortex Lands in the US of A……………AGAIN!!!

RESER’S FINE FOODS INSTALL 2nd VORTEX COOK QUENCH CHILL. We are pleased to announce the completion of a further very successful installation of a Vortex Cook, Quench and Chill system (CQC) at Reser’s Fine Foods. Based in Oregon, Resers supply over 1000 convenience products to over 50 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico and the Far East. This major Food Producer and their Brands are industry leaders in Prepared Salads, Prepared Foods, Ready Meals, Pasta, Dips and Mexican food as well as…

The Widest and Best Cook, Quench, Chill Systems. The Market Leading Vortex.

VORTEX COOK QUENCH CHILL RANGE. With a 14 model line-up, there is a Vortex Cook, Quench, Chill system suitable for most Ready Meal producers, both large and small. All provide the highest quality of product and unequalled levels of hygiene whilst delivering huge water savings when compared with other CQC and Screw designs. The Vortex CQC is the most versatile cooking and chilling system on the market. It is ideal for long and short pasta, rice, noodles, grains, pulses and…

NEW LAUNCH VORTEX D3 MINI 400

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The NEW Vortex D3 Mini is an exceptional system that delivers versatile volumes of evenly cooked product of a consistently high quality. It has been specifically designed for the cooking of pasta, noodles and rice and is also ideally suited for potatoes, vegetables and seafood etc. The system is also perfect for thawing due to precise temperature control and uniform heating / chilling. Key features: A new mini version of the market leading Vortex with all the same benefits! Unique…

Vortech Present New Automatic Packaging Line for Sliced Products

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The new Express automatic Slice Pack line is the ideal solution for MAP Packaging for sliced ham, meats, cheese and similar products. Perfect for where floor space is at a premium, the in-line system provides automatic slicing, tray denesting, product loading and MAP tray sealing in addition to weighing, pricing and labelling, all within a space of 4 metres. Quick and efficient; typical speeds are 8-10 slice packs per minute with a residual oxygen level of 0.2%. The Slice Pack…

Vortex Cook, Quench, Chill Cooking System

The Vortex delivers State of the Art technology, and overcomes the shortfalls of traditional in-line cookers.   With it’s Unique Water Agitation system the Vortex produces damage free product which also eliminates product clumping in the baskets. The operation consists of a series of vessels arranged in-line with a low to high risk divide where the product is contained by way of lifting and tilting baskets. This machine is ideal for high volume, demanding applications where consistency and reliability are the…

Vortex Cook, Quench, Chill for major UK Pasta Salads Manufacturer successfully installed

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A successful and on time installation of a Vortex Cook Quench Chill line for a major UK pasta salads producer. The brief from this existing customer was to deliver a system that would not only provide extremely high outputs of cooked and chilled pasta but to also reduce water usage per kilo of processed product. The Vortex system was required to cook, quench and chill 1700kg per hour of various pasta shapes to a very high quality with no clumping or…