Bringing Tomato Sauce Production to Scale: How Blentech Innovates for Consistency and Quality

At the Blentech Innovation Center, we help food processors take the guesswork out of scaling up their recipes. Through rigorous testing and process optimization, we ensure that equipment upgrades lead to improved efficiency, consistency, and product quality. Our Horizontal Kettle transforms traditional sauce-making by preserving natural flavors while ensuring precision blending and sautéing, for home-cooked flavors at scale.

Advanced Cooking for Exceptional Sauces

Blentech’s Horizontal Kettles provide superior heat transfer and and AutoChef recipe management and automatic agitation control ensures thorough yet gentle mixing. This precise control protects the natural flavor and texture of tomato sauce while minimizing inconsistencies in batches.

Key Benefits of the BlenTherm for Sauce Production:

• More Effective Sautéing: The horizontal kettle’s design enhances heat transfer, allowing for rapid sautéing that develops rich, deep flavors.
• Automatic Agitation Control: Ensures thorough blending while maintaining the sauce’s integrity, preventing scorching or over-processing.
• Consistent Quality and Reduced Rework: With automation and recipe control software, food manufacturers can ensure batch-to-batch consistency, reducing waste and the need for reworking.
• Seamless Integration with Production Lines: Discharge options enable direct integration with downstream pumps or surge hoppers, making it ideal for high-production environments.

Innovation That Meets Industry Demands

Blentech equips food processors with cutting-edge solutions to create a diverse array of delicious and convenient products. Whether you’re crafting traditional sauces, pioneering plant-based alternatives, or producing globally inspired dishes, our technology ensures efficiency, quality, and scalability.

Compared to standard hemispherical kettles, our horizontal kettle design provides 25-50% greater heat transfer area to product volume.  Additionally, spring-mounted polymer scrapers keep the heat transfer surface clean, reducing burn on that can affect the flavor or controibute to product loss. The option for direct steam injection (DSI) further enhances cooking speed and starch activation, leading to superior sauce consistency.

Efficiency, Sustainability, and Automation

Beyond just cooking—we offer complete process engineering that improves energy efficiency, reduces operational costs, and ensures compliance with industry standards. Some standout features include:

• Rapid mixing and equilibration for improved yield
• Effective dispersion of ingredients for a smoother texture
• Lower energy consumption and reduced environmental impact
• Sanitary CIP (Clean-in-Place) design for easy cleaning and maintenance
• State-of-the-art automation for quality assurance and operational efficiency

Ready to Scale Up Your Production?

Blentech’s advanced technology empowers food manufacturers to scale recipes with confidence, ensuring superior quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Whether you’re upgrading existing equipment or looking to streamline your production process, our experts are here to help you innovate with confidence.

Watch our latest video to see how our Horizontal Kettle technology transforms tomato sauce production and learn how we can support your manufacturing needs!