Food Preservation and Meat Processing
 

This room has a wide variety of small and medium sized equipment representative of many preservation and meat processes. There is a smoke oven, able to provide a range of treatments from hot to cold. Typical products would be smoked bacon, sausages and fish. The opposite corner houses a continuous sauce plant in which pipes carry a mix through a heated chamber causing the product to gelatinise. It can then be deposited directly. This piece of equipment it used extensively in the food industry. There are two vacuum packing machines, one of which is capable of replacing the vacuum with a variety of gas mixtures, affecting both the storage and appearance of products. The walk-in chill store allows production of ready meals under conditions which closely mirror those used in industry. The large rotary autoclave agitates cans as they are pressure cooked, the lids having been sealed on under vacuum. The whole process can be monitored remotely using measuring equipment. In addition, this room houses a blast freezer, plate freezer, spray dryer and various meat processing equipment.