I. Introduction of Baked Pellet Snacks (Waffle/Pipe/Screw/Animal/Letter/Wheel chips)

Pellet snacks are made from the snack pellets through a secondary puffing process. Snack pellets are a kind of semi-finished snacks. They can be further processed at home by either frying or baking to become edible. And they are also the raw material for snack plants to develop a variety of interesting ready-to-eat snacks.

This page introduces our baked pellet snacks production machines for snacks factories. When half line works, semi-finished snack pellets are produced. And when the full snack production line machinery runs, the fully finished baked pellet snacks are produced.

Wheels made by pellet snacks making machine

II. Parameters 60-85 kg/h Baked 2D Snack Pellets Production Machinery

III. Features

• Finished Food Quality Ensured: Optimal extrusion solution, premium equipment design, and equipment processing ensure high-level and stable production.
• High Output: High designed capacity; minimal material loss;
• Less Energy: High mechanical coordination, low wear; optimized heating, thermal transfer& insulation details, low heat loss
• Low Production Cost: Flow production, precise control of each process
• Simple and Low Cost Maintenance: Modular structure, easy operation. Lifetime after-sales service
• Material: High-quality food-safe materials for all food contact part
• Failure Rate:  Nearly zero failure as long as preventive maintenance 

IV. The General Flow Chart for Baked 2D Snack Pellets & Pellet Snacks

• Step 1: Mixing
• Step 2: Precooking (first extrusion)
• Step 3: Extruding & shaping (secondary extrusion)
• Step 4: Baking
• Step 5: Seasoning
• Step 6: Cooling before packing
• Step 7: Packing

This pellet snacks production machine adopts advanced extrusion solution. The mixed material is precooked/pre extruded with twin screw snack food extruder first, and then realize gelatination in single screw food extruder. After gelatination, the waffle/pipe/screw/animal/letter/wheel shapes are extruded from different extrusion dies without using additional shaping machines. After drying, the the half-finished snack pellets are completed.

Continue to puff the snack pellets (by Baking)

The emi-finished waffle pellets continue to be conveyed into the fryums dryer machine. Depending on the output and desired texture, the fryums dryer machine is designed as single or multi-layer. By setting the roasting temperature and roasting time, the pellets are roasted correctly. Finally, the ready-to-eat pellet snacks are completed through the seasoning and packing processes.

V. Components of Baked 2D Snack Pellets & Pellet Snack Machinery

1. Flour mixer
2. Twin screw snack food extruder
3. Single screw snack food extruder
4. Chiller
5. Vibration spreader
6. Belt-baking machine
7. Seasoning machine
8. Cooling machine
9. Automatic packing machine
10. Controlling system (PLC/or instrument control options)
11. Complete conveyors
12. Steam boiler/Burner (Optional)

Flexibility

• Wide Materials Application: This snacks machinery adopts two-time extrusion solution, which is suitable for a wide range of raw materials, such as corn flour, cassava flour, rice flour, oat flour, wheat flour and so on. It can process either multi-grain blends or single grains.
• Endless Shapes: The extrusion die can be changed flexibly to extrude the pellets of different shapes. Such as waffle pellets, pipe pellets, spiral snack pellets, animal shape snack pellets, letter shape snack pellets, wheel shape snack pellets, etc.

Innovation

• When adding a pulling machine and using different extrusion dies, this snacks production machines can produce fries-shaped snack pellets.
• Adding an embossing machine and a combining& molding machine, this snacks machinery can produce corresponding 3D snack pellets.
• In addition to snack pellets, this line can also produce various other puffed baked snacks by changing molds, adding corresponding auxiliary equipment or adopting different conveying schemes: such as corn triangle chips/doritos/cheetos, bugles/cone chips, cereal puff snacks etc.