Over the years FoodTools engineers have been tasked with some pretty unique portioning projects. From marshmallows to soap, or gelatin to deli sandwiches, these products have called for some out of the box thinking, designing, and implementing to achieve the high quality portioning solutions that FoodTools is known for. So when we were tasked with building a mushroom cutting machine our designers first confirmed that it wasn’t a typo, and then they got to work.

MUSHROOM CUTTING MACHINE

ACCUSLICE-100MC mushroom cutting machine by FoodTools
ACCUSLICE-100MC

Bakery products come in a wide variety of temperatures and consistencies so mushrooms weren’t too far off the range of product characteristics that we’ve dealt with. The cut pattern though was new. These mushrooms didn’t need to be wedge slices or square cakes for the bakery display, each mushroom needed to be cut into a round shape, and then sliced horizontally into two halves.

Mushroom Cutting Machine FoodTools.
Perfectly Consistent Rounds and Halves

FoodTools engineers achieved this with a two stage process integrating proven technologies with a few new twists. Once the mushrooms are loaded an automated product holder mold conveys them into the machine to be stamped into consistently round shapes that are dropped onto a flat conveyor and moved through a reciprocating blade, slicing the rounds into horizontal half slabs. The two step process can portion up to 2,000 mushrooms per hour.

THE MUSHROOM CUTTING MACHINE.

Just like the 5-AF fitted to slice artisan soap bars, or a sheet cake cutting machine being used to slice gourmet marshmallows, the ACCUSLICE-100MC is built on a cake cutting base, but custom engineered to meet a unique food processing need. Not many of our bakery clients will need this solution, but large scale food processing plants churning out lots of mushroom products will find the automation and portion consistency invaluable.

MUSHROOM CUTTING MACHINE VIDEO

ACCUSLICE-100MC Mushroom Cutting Machine Video

So if you are making a unique food, or non-food product, for the world and are looking to automate the portioning process, don’t hesitate to reach out to FoodTools and talk with our engineering team about your products and plans.

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