The increase in unemployment, the inability of employers to provide adequate salaries to the workforce encourages many people to self-employment and entrepreneurship. One of the new and fast-yielding businesses is setting up a dry fruit production line. Dried fruit can be produced in large quantities in large factories, and it can be produced as a home business. In general, you and the amount of budget and space you have, determine the necessary equipment to start the dried fruit business; In the following, we will examine zero to one hundred equipment necessary to set up a dry fruit production line.
To start the dry fruit business, some equipment is very necessary. But some equipments are used only to facilitate and speed up the production process. Fruit drying machine , manual slicer machine and corer can be considered as necessary and necessary equipment to start the production of dried fruit. In general, the equipment used in a dried fruit production workshop includes a washing tub, a work table, a peeler, a corer, a slicer, a fruit dryer, a grinder, a vegetable dehydrator and a scale. In the following, we will introduce each of the equipment to you part by part.
Washing tubs can be divided into manual and automatic. You should prepare a tub for washing fruits and vegetables based on the space you have and of course according to your workload. For example, in a small workshop with a small area, using an automatic washing tub is not very logical, and of course the opposite is also true. That is, in a large factory for the production of dried and semi-prepared fruits and vegetables, which has a high workload and of course must meet the necessary standards for obtaining a license, a manual washing tub is never used to wash fruits and vegetables. , and it is necessary to have at least a five-stage washing line of an automatic washing tub.
You need a work table to place equipment such as slicer machine, Fruit peeler and Fruit pitting and perform slicing, coring and peeling operations. In order to produce and package food items, it is necessary that the surface with which food ingredients are in contact be completely hygienic and sterile. Therefore, the work table you use in the dry fruit production workshop must be made of steel. Of course, there is no requirement for the legs of the table to be steel, and you can use a work table with a steel top to reduce costs.
Peeling fruits such as apples or oranges by hand seems to be difficult, even with a large amount of work. In order to facilitate and speed up the production process, an electric fruit peeler can be used. It is very easy to work with this device, and of course, it is less messy than taking the fruit skin with a knife or a manual peeler.
The corer is one of the necessary equipment in fruit chips production workshops. Stone fruits such as apples, peaches, plums, nectarines, etc. must be removed the core so that it looks beautiful and dries completely. Fruit Corers are produced and marketed in different models. You can use a manual Fruit Corer or if your workload is large, use a lever and a pneumatic Fruit Corer to get the fruit core. Of course, to reduce the volume of waste, a nozzle should be used according to the diameter of the fruit core.
In order to sell dried fruit better, it is necessary to pay a lot of attention to the appearance of the fruits in the production process and to be careful enough so that the fruits are uniform and of the same size during cutting. Naturally, doing this with a knife is very difficult and time-consuming, so having a fruit slicer in your workshop is necessary. There are different types of slicers, electric slicers, manual slicers, sliding manual slicers, pneumatic slicers, lever slicers, etc. Of course, you need to know that no slicer can be used alone for all kinds of fruits and vegetables. In general, fruits can be divided into soft and hard fruits, and you should use a slicer for soft fruits and a special slicer for hard fruits. You don’t need an electric slicer at the beginning of dry fruit work and you only need to use manual slicers.
In the last stage, we will introduce the main and most necessary device for setting up a dry fruit production line. Producing fruit chips with a fruit drying machine is an ideal way to dry all kinds of fruits and vegetables in a hygienic way and in the shortest possible time. There are different types of fruit dryers, depending on the budget you have and of course according to the volume of work and the space of the workshop, you can get your ideal machine. In a general classification, fruit dryers are classified into two categories: gas-burning and electric. Devices can be divided into household fruit dryers, semi-industrial fruit dryers, and industrial fruit dryers based on workload. In the drying machine, the input capacity of the machine, drying speed, energy consumption, support and after-sales service of the machine are very important.
To set up a home dried fruit workshop with the most minimal and economical equipment, you only need a manual slicer, a manual corer and a small semi-industrial fruit dryer. To start work, a space of about 6 meters, but isolated and sterile, is enough. Of course, this space must have a proper ventilation system. Finally, after producing dried fruit, pack them in appropriate packages and store them in a refrigerator at a temperature of about 5 degrees Celsius.
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