Many operations bread product for frying, and nearly all struggle with the same challenges: the time and cost required to bread by hand, the resulting food quality inconsistency, and the wasted ingredients. As the food prep experts, AyrKing has found ways to address these challenges. Read on to see how you can save time, money and ingredients, all while improving product quality and consistency.
It takes a skilled employee to consistently hand-bread proteins or vegetables, and discipline and time to later sift the ingredients to eliminate doughballs. With labor availability and costs at a premium, manual prep can quickly become a drain on resources.
The AyrKing DrumRoll automated breading machine simplifies the breading process, saving 25% of prep time and enabling less-skilled employees to complete the prep. And the AyrKing BBS breading and sifting table automates the ingredient sifting process, cutting sifting time by 80%.
With employees with different skillsets manually breading foods, it’s easy for flavor profiles to slip from shift to shift. And likewise with sifting practices, as some employees may short-change or skip sifting altogether. Both scenarios can lead to inconsistent taste and dissatisfied customers.
In testing, the DrumRoll demonstrated a 32% improvement in consistency with more evenly coated food. Our BBS thoroughly re-blends the breading mixture for consistent ingredient distribution, eliminating taste-impacting doughballs as a result. Since it’s a 60-second automated process, it’s less likely to be skipped.
With employee turnover an inevitability, it’s hard to ensure food is prepared the same way every time, leading to rushed breading and skipped sifting practices. The resulting food quality challenges can quickly mean your operation isn’t meeting your standards.
By using the DrumRoll’s automated process, food is evenly coated every time, no matter the skill or attention of the employee. And the automated BBS takes just a few seconds to consistently mix ingredients and eliminate doughballs, keeping food quality up to standards.
The flour, spices and seasonings that go into your breading aren’t cheap. But it’s very easy for the hand-breading process to quickly consume large quantities of breading, especially if the process is done inconsistently or still-useable breading isn’t sifted, but simply discarded when the doughballs start to accumulate.
The BBS can save up to 40% of ingredient costs by quickly reclaiming useable breading from each batch. And the DrumRoll’s automated process has demonstrated a breading savings of 13%, as well as a 5% reduction in fryer oil usage due to less breading blow-off.
AyrKing makes a variety of products to help automate and improve the breading of proteins and vegetables, ultimately saving you time and money. You can find savings by automating your breading, sifting, and batter preparation, resulting in reduced labor costs and increased food quality and consistency.
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Learn moreIf you’re like most foodservice operations, you produce more than just breaded and fried foods. Click below to learn more about how AyrKing can help save time and money with your other food prep processes, including marinating, sifting, and battering.
