Since we all love curling up beside the fireplace with the tax code on a lazy night (not) and would rather be doing our taxes than baking delicious desserts (not) and look forward to April 15th every year more than any other holiday (definitely not), we thought it might be [...]
Wheels of Parmesan cheese are not small, which means it takes a lot of power to slice the wheels into wedges for retail and wholesale distribution. For centuries these wheels have been cut and portioned by hand with specialized cheese tools, but there is another way! The FoodTools CS-3SA Parmesan [...]
Ever wondered, "Does my machine need an oil change?" Some FoodTools machines use human lever power, some need compressed air, others operate with advanced servo drives and computer systems, and some are run on air over oil hydraulics. If you have a hydraulic powered machine, periodically the air compressor needs [...]
The Tortilla Industry Association has been serving the tortilla industry since 1989. Members include tortilla manufacturers, industry suppliers, distributors, and other companies with interests in the rapidly growing tortilla industry. This month the organization hosted the annual TIA convention in San Diego, California, a hotbed for flat bread production. In [...]
Bakery China 2016 took place this month at the Shanghai New Int'l Expo Center. More than 1,600 exhibitors from 22 countries displayed the latest and greatest in food processing innovations to nearly 100,000 attendees from 25+ countries. FoodTools was present with commercial portioning machines and company representatives to serve as industry [...]
In recent years a buzz product in the food industry has been flat breads including pita and tortilla products. FoodTools has several industrial tortilla slicing machine solutions to slice and cut flat bread products into portions for chip production. The TC-1 is our smallest chip slicing machine, cutting up to [...]
I've been qualifying bakery equipment opportunities for the last 23 years, and after answering only a few key questions I can sense when a FoodTools machine will provide a rapid payback. A machine that saves labor will improve profits and should be a no-brainer investment, therefore, its strange when an [...]
The recreational baker makes a cheesecake at home, with love, by hand, and without the need of industrial cheesecake production equipment. While some bakers enjoy baking by hand and putting their personal flair into each creation, cheesecake manufacturers know that the personal touch needs to have a bit of added [...]
Foodex 2016 the premier trade event for the food industry in the United Kingdom. Held biannually in Birmingham the exposition includes facets of food and drink processing, packaging, ingredients, and logistics to be a one stop shop for food and beverage professionals in Great Britain. Foodex 2016 took place from [...]
The CS-8B-4 machine slices 5 horizontal layers with 4 reciprocating blades. The previous model was limited to slicing only 4 layers of product with 3 blades and the addition of one Teflon-coated horizontal slicing blade has allowed bakeries to improve efficiency and production capacity while maintaining the same quality of cut and [...]
