The Master of Cooking
GEA CookStar
The GEA CookStar industrial spiral oven. One of a family from GEA with excellent performance in terms of capacity, throughput, flexibility, consistency and reliability. Perfectly cooks poultry, pork, beef, fish or meat replacement products, consistently outperforming its rivals.
GEA CookStar 600
Unchallenged cooking performance
The CookStar offers the best of both worlds by combining horizontal and vertical airflow. This allows the CookStar to efficiently balance the critical elements of time, temperature, humidity and air circulation to provide efficient cooking for a wide range of applications. It is this ability that makes GEA CookStar the Master of Industrial Cooking.
25 years of innovation with GEA CookStar
Main applications
The GEA CookStar is versatile, handling a wide range of products such as poultry, pork, beef, fish and meat substitutes, coated and uncoated, formed and natural, at high production throughputs.
Flexibility now and in the future
- Master of versatility: steam – cook – brown – roast, in one oven
- Patent-pending for the unique SuperHeatSmoke option for cooking and smoking products
- Fastest change over between processes
Proven performance
- Shorter cook time for more efficient cooking
- More available heating capacity gives higher throughput
- More equal color development and more consistent core temperature
- Setting the industry standard with the longest cooking length – up to 25 m/min belt speed and up to 25 kg/m belt load
Ultimate reliability
- More than 25 years' experience and countless millions of tons of food products produced
- 99% uptime with proven installations around the globe
- Global service coverage with support programs for better-operating efficiency
Specifications
Advanced technology
Three-phase cooking concept in double spiral oven
Process control and efficiency
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Technical details of GEA CookStar
| Product specifications | GEA CookStar 600 | GEA CookStar 1000 |
| Belt length | 60 to 86 m* | 117 to 160 m* |
| Belt width | 600 mm | 1000 mm |
| Max. cooking / grilling temperature | 200 °C
| 200 °C
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| Min. product height | 15 x 15 x 15 mm | 15 x 15 x 15 mm
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| Max. product height | 75 to 130 mm* | 90 to 140 mm* |
| Climate control & modarating exhaust control | standard | standard |
| Infeed and outfeed height | 1000 mm | 1150 mm |
| Dimensions L x W x H | 9288x4481x4855 mm | 12910x6350x5830 mm |
| Machine weight | 18.000 kg | 50.000 kg |
Add-ons
Options GEA CookStar
Inline cooking and smoking
GEA sediment removal system belt wash
For heavily-marinated applications or sticky products, the sediment removal system belt wash simplifies the belt washing operation and improves efficiency for the operator.
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GEA SuperHeatSmoke & HotSmoke
GEA CookStar in-line smoking solutions combine double spiral oven technology with the atomization of condensed natural smoke, to produce attractive fully cooked and smoked products. It uses condensed natural smoke from the market-leading specialist in smoke condensates, Red Arrow.
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