Cutting machinery plays a vital role in the food industry by facilitating streamlined food preparation, boosting productivity, and ensuring uniformity in the size and shape of food products.
By enabling precise cutting techniques, such as portioning, slicing, dicing, and chopping, cutting machinery helps food manufacturers and processors save time and reduce labor costs. It also enhances food safety measures by minimizing the potential for cross-contamination and maintaining consistent product quality. As such, manufacturers of cutting machinery are key to developing the end-product.
Precision Cutting for Perfect Pizza Toppings
Pizza has taken the frozen food industry by storm. Its convenience and mouth-watering flavours have made it a staple in households across the globe. However, the journey from dough to delicious frozen pizza is not without its challenges. Frozen pizza manufacturers face hurdles in achieving even cooking, cutting high-fat products like salami, and using different sizes and shapes of vegetables as toppings.
FAM STUMABO, a leading manufacturer of industrial food cutting machines, offers cutting-edge solutions that address these challenges and help pizza manufacturers deliver top-notch frozen pizzas. Achieving even cooking can be a challenge for frozen pizza manufacturers. Uneven cooking may result in an unsatisfactory dining experience. Precise cheese cutting can be challenging because it is a living product with different properties like fat and moisture content, hardness, softness, and age that need to be considered. The accuracy and repeatability of the cut quality are crucial when cheese is used as a pizza topping, whether in small cubes, strips, or shreds. Consistency in size is essential to ensure that no pieces are overcooked or undercooked during the melting process in the oven.
FAM STUMABO, with its extensive expertise, rigorously follows the cheese market to ensure its machines and knives generate optimal results for the latest cheese products. Mozzarella and brand-specific blends are the most used types of cheese for pizza while plant-based frozen pizzas are gaining popularity. FAM STUMABO’s top-level machines for cheese cutting all deliver outstanding performance and precision: The FAM Centris 400C Hytec with the 16-station SureShred cutting head combines high-capacity shredding with an ultra-hygienic design. The FAM Hymaks is the highest capacity drum dicer, offering rigorous sanitation standards. For medium high volumes, the FAM Flexifam 55 is the most flexible and time-saving cheese dicer.
Get the Desired Crisp Structure on High Fat Toppings
A wide variety of meat products, including ham, bacon, cooked beef, chicken, pork sausages, pepperoni, salami, and chorizo, are commonly used as pizza toppings. The challenge arises with high-fat products like salami and certain hams, which require cutting at extremely low temperatures, around -15°C, thus necessitating heavy-duty machines and blades. To withstand the impact of hard frozen products, FAM STUMABO has developed a selection of sturdy blades, including their renowned “golden knives” made from a different metal alloy. These golden knives, with their enhanced resistance to extreme cold, ensure a free-rolling, non-sticking product that is easy to pack and put on top of pizzas.
The FAM Volantis V-belt slicer plays a vital role in achieving precise and consistent slices for meat toppings. Its V-belt that perfectly aligns the sausages towards the slicing wheel, combined with the transversal cutting principle, delivers exceptional results with minimal waste. The popular “coin cut” slices, such as pepperoni and salami, benefit from FAM STUMABO’s dedicated set of knives, which are capable of handling occasional pepper grains that are harder than the meat itself. Additionally, FAM STUMABO offers dedicated cutting solutions for dicing, strip-cutting, and shredding meat and poultry. The robust FAM CMD.2 high- capacity drum dicer is capable of uniform cutting of frozen products in very clean dice and strips. The FAM Yuran Hytec hygienic belt cutter is specialized in processing meat and poultry products into dice, strips and pulled look-alike products.
To read the entire article, please access your complimentary e-copy of Frozen Food Europe May-June, 2022 issue here.