Plant Based, Processed, & Analog Cheeses

Blentech cheese cookers have touched the apex in the world of manufactured processed and analogue cheese for both continuous and batch systems.Processed cheese is a product that can be sensitive to many factors such as shear, grind, salt, pH, and water purity. A controlled shear is crucial to the development of the texture of the cheese while it is stretched and folded in the cooking process or after in the case of the Infinity Cooker. It is ideal to grind the cheese before the cooking process to ensure that all of the cheese easily melts into a smooth solution and rapidly. Blentech has the experience in cheese processing coupled with the cooking technology to provide the total solution. Most commonly found on pizzas, cheese analogs are products used as culinary replacements for cheeses and are oftentimes made with casein, a by-product of milk and vegetable oil rather than milk. They are increasingly being used due to their cost-effectiveness, attributed to the replacement of selected milk ingredients by less expensive vegetable products. Many of the same factors involved in processed cheese manufacturing can be applied to analog cheeses as well.