The Power of Steam

How Spiral and Booster Steam Ovens Are Transforming Food Processing

Anderson Dahlen’s Spiral Steam Ovens and Booster Steam Ovens provide innovative cooking solutions to improve food processing while ensuring strict food safety standards. These steam ovens operate using gentle and continuous cooking technology, which stands apart from traditional high-temperature methods. This technology improves yield and product consistency while also cutting operational expenses.

What Makes Spiral Steam Ovens Unique?

Traditional cooking techniques use high temperatures and dry heat, which reduce yields, increase energy usage, and demand significant maintenance. Anderson Dahlen’s Spiral Steam Ovens use a spiral conveyorized cooking system that injects live steam, allowing food products to cook evenly at a controlled temperature.

Key Benefits of Spiral Steam Ovens:

• Higher Yield: Steam retains moisture and prevents excessive shrinkage, leading to greater product weight retention and reduced fat loss.
• Energy Efficiency: Uses less energy than high-temperature ovens, lowering operating costs.
• Lower Maintenance: Simpler design compared to combination ovens, reducing long-term maintenance expenses by up to 67%.
• Compact Footprint: Optimized for floor space, making it ideal for expanding production lines without major facility changes.

Anderson Dahlen’s Spiral Steam Ovens have been successfully integrated into large-scale food processing operations, such as doubling the volume of canned poultry production, optimizing tamale cooking, and improving consistency in bagel steaming.

The Secret to High-Throughput Cooking

Booster Steam Ovens enhance high-temperature cooking lines alongside full-scale steam ovens. By placing these compact, rapid steamers either at the start or end of their production lines, manufacturers can bolster production line throughput and maintain food safety.

How Booster Steam Ovens Improve Production:

• Increase Capacity: Allows food producers to scale production by up to 20% without major equipment overhauls.
• Ensure Food Safety: Helps maintain core temperature standards, eliminate bacteria, and maintain regulatory compliance.
• Preserve Texture & Appearance: Provides a gentler cooking process that enhances product texture, taste, and color consistency.

A large food processing company implemented Booster Steam Ovens in its sausage production line to maintain accurate core temperatures without burning the outer layer. A minor change to their production process solved an essential food safety problem without sacrificing production speed.

The Versatility of Steam Cooking

While Spiral and Booster Steam Ovens are widely used in meat processing, their applications extend far beyond poultry, beef, and pork. Many food manufacturers use these systems for delicate, high-yield cooking applications, including:

• Scrambled Eggs in a Bag: Popular in hotel buffets and food service, these ovens ensure even cooking without losing texture or moisture.
• Tamales: Steam cooking retains the authentic taste and texture, making it a preferred method for large-scale tamale production.
• Post-Packaging Pasteurization: A critical step for food safety in ready-to-eat products, reducing contamination risks.
• Pot Stickers & Dumplings: Spiral Steam Ovens ensure dumplings are fully cooked while maintaining a soft, consistent texture.
• Pet Food Pouches: A growing industry where fresh, high-moisture pet food is steam-cooked in pouches for quality and shelf stability.

Seamless Integration into Existing Production Lines

One of the standout features of Anderson Dahlen’s Spiral and Booster Steam Ovens is their effortless integration into new and existing food production lines. Designed to be flexible, these ovens can be adapted to meet the unique layout, speed, and space constraints of a wide range of processing environments.

Whether a company is retrofitting legacy systems or building out new production lines to meet rising demand, Anderson Dahlen’s steam ovens offer custom solutions. They can be engineered to align with conveyor belt speeds, accommodate specific product transfer requirements, and synchronize with upstream and downstream equipment, including high-temperature linear ovens, spiral freezers, searing units, and post-packaging systems.

The ovens’ modular design allows for simplified integration with minimal disruption. Their ability to cook gently yet efficiently enhances the overall thermal profile of the production line while preserving product appearance, moisture, and texture. Even in highly space-sensitive environments, the compact footprint of these ovens makes them an excellent choice for operations that need to scale without major facility modifications. This design ensures that manufacturers maintain efficiency and food safety and extend the lifecycle of their existing equipment investments.

Upgrade Your Cooking Process with Anderson Dahlen

Whether you want to increase production, improve food safety, or optimize yield, Anderson Dahlen’s Spiral Steam Ovens and Booster Steam Ovens offer an efficient and cost-effective solution.Contact us to learn how steam cooking can work for your business.