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A vacuum fryer is a deep-frying device housed inside a
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chamber. Vacuum fryers are fit to process low-quality
potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United ...
es that contain higher sugar levels than normal, as they frequently have to be processed in spring and early summer before the potatoes from the new
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become available. With vacuum frying it is easier to maintain natural colors and flavours of the finished product. Due to the lower
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s applied (approximately ), the formation of suspected
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is significantly lower than in standard atmospheric fryers, where the frying temperature is approximately . The fat absorption of the products is also reported to be lower than in atmospheric fryers. In South East Asia (mainly
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and
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) batch type vacuum fryers are mainly used for the production of fruit chips. However, these machines are only appropriate for relatively small production companies.


Working principle

Vacuum fryer works on the principle of simple physics that as the pressure decreases below atmospheric pressure the
boiling point The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals the pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid changes into a vapor. The boiling point of a liquid varies depending upon the surrounding envi ...
of the water also reduces below 100 degree Celsius. All vacuum fryer are designed to achieve these goal so that heat sensitive foods can be fried at lower than 100 degree celsius which would otherwise have burned in normal
deep frying Deep frying (also referred to as deep fat frying) is a cooking method in which food is submerged in hot fat, traditionally lard but today most commonly oil, as opposed to the shallow oil used in conventional frying done in a frying pan. Norma ...
process.


Continuous vacuum fryers

For larger production quantities, continuous vacuum fryers are available. In these installations, the
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frying pan is installed in a stainless steel vacuum tube. The infeed of the raw product is carried out through a rotary
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. Depending on the application, the frying pan itself is designed to meet the different product specifications. A transport belt takes the finished product out of the fryer and towards the outfeed system. A lock chamber at the exit of the vacuum tube prevents air from entering the vacuum zone, and a belt system takes the product from one zone to another. The vacuum is created by
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s, and the whole system is controlled by a
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. In batch fryers, the frying oil has to be replaced quite often as it is sensitive to temperature changes. Continuous vacuum fryers lead to a longer lifetime of the frying oil and therefore lower the production costs. Vacuum fryers can also reduce oil content in fried foods. The amount of reduced oil content, usually 1–3%, depends on the type of vacuum fryer.Journal of Food Engineering Volume 55, Issue 2, November 2002, Pages 181-191, "Vacuum frying of potato chips" By Jagoba Garayo & Rosana Moreira, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station - TX - 77843-2117, USA Received 31 October 2001, Accepted 5 February 2002, Available online 12 March 2002. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0260-8774(02)00062-6


See also

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List of cooking appliances This is a list of cooking appliances that are used for cooking foods. Cooking appliances * Air fryer * Bachelor griller * Barbecue grill * Beehive oven * Brasero (heater) * Brazier * Bread machine * Burjiko * Butane torch * Chapati ...
* List of deep fried foods


References


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Further reading

* {{cite book, last1=Henry C. Dethloff, Stephen W. Searcy, title=Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&M: The First Hundred Years, date=2015, isbn=978-1623492892, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EnJ8BgAAQBAJ, access-date=8 December 2016 Food industry Food technology Cooking appliances