Development of Precise Thermal Processing Equipment for Ingredients

Tech & Electronics;

Commercial kitchen utensils are mainly used for the curing and heat treatment of food, occupying a central position in the kitchen processing chain and having a decisive impact on the nutrition, safety and flavor quality of food; while other types of products are mainly used for storage, pretreatment, cleaning, post-processing and other auxiliary work.

The main technical problems to be solved:

1. The heat of the hot surface comes from a point (or local) heat source, and it is difficult to obtain a consistent temperature between the area close to the heat source and the area far from the heat source due to the difference in the length of the heat transfer path;
2. The food turning operation is very important for chef skills or the requirementsfor the mechanical turning mechanism are very high. And the various food, shape, and size of the ingredients make it difficult to solve the problem of uniform heating through the turning operation;
3. Although thecontrol schemeof sensor feedback has been widely adopted in commercial electric heating kitchen utensils, it can only solve the overall heating balance, but cannot achieve precise control of the temperature of each point in the heating work area.

Main technical goals:

1. Design and develop anisotropic heat transfer unit structure with targeted heat distribution function in accordance with the requirements of typical food materials for curing and heat treatment, combined with the structure of our existing kitchen equipment;
2. Research and develop the process of mass production of anisotropic heat exchange unit structure, implant our series kitchen utensils and equipment products, and create smart and accurate kitchen utensils and equipment products;
3. According to the scene of typical food material curing heat treatment, the nutrition and safety quality evaluation system of curing food will beestablished, and the application efficiency evaluation of smart and precise kitchen utensils will be