First-time-right spiral cooking
GEA CookStar First
GEA CookStar First is the newest and smallest member of the market-leading CookStar family. It creates that ‘home cooked’ experience for small to mid-sized capacity production, with first-time-right spiral cooking.
Leading spiral cooking technology
The GEA CookStar First allows food producers to benefit from twin-zone, spiral cooking for the first time. It combines horizontal and vertical airflow, with unique three-phase cooking, to balance the critical elements of time, temperature, humidity and air circulation. This provides efficient cooking for a wide range of applications and maximum product flexibility, while offering the opportunity to upgrade to higher-production equipment, with minimal disruption, as the business develops.
Main applications
The GEA CookStar First is designed for small to mid-sized capacity production of steam-cooked products, coated poultry, plant-based foods, baked or grilled products and ready meals.
Compact and future proof
At just 3.9m high, the GEA CookStar First is the lowest spiral oven on the market allowing it to fit easily into most brown-field sites. Its extensive functionality means the oven can accommodate a wide range of products and adapt as demands change. With their matching footprints, larger CookStar ovens can replace the ‘First’, as the business grows.
Maximum cooking performance and energy efficiency
GEA has designed its CookStar First to provide the highest level of performance and efficiency in its class to give manufacturers increased throughput and yield. Key features include:
- Up to 1700kg/hr throughput
- 10-25% shorter cooking time compared with other spiral ovens
- The lowest available product deviation at just 1.8°C
- 0.5 – 1.5% higher yield for coated products and 2-3% for roasted products based on customer experience.
Fully automatic climate and exhaust control contributes to achieving a 12% reduction in energy and water consumption earning GEA CookStar First the GEA Add-Better environmental label.
Better cooking insights and process control
The GEA SmartControl Premium HMI, standard on the GEA CookStar First, manages daily operation efficiently. The system also is the ideal tool to help shift managers coach, optimize and correct machine operations to improve daily efficiency.
In addition, many GEA innovations help to make life easy for manufacturers. These include:
- An alarm configurator and ‘hold’ mode to prevent undercooking
- More robust and consistent dewpoint sensors & cooking temperature sensors, with auto-calibration for more accurate traceability
- Smart and fast cool-down mode that saves time and provides 1% extra machine availability
- Auto fire extinguishing function
GEA InsightPartner provides remote monitoring for better operational information and maintenance planning.
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Endurlon® guiding strips
Do you want to extend the service intervals of your GEA CookStar? Reduce your maintenance costs? Improve hygiene? Now you can with Endurlon™ spiral oven guiding strips.
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GEA RemotePartner combines digital machine access and remote support to help you swiftly identify the root cause of any equipment issue and get instant assistance from GEA experts. The result: faster issue diagnostics and resolution, enhanced machine performance, greater efficiency and minimal downtime.
GEA InsightPartner for food processing and packaging equipment
By providing instant access to real-time equipment data, InsightPartner helps food processors manage their production better. Our cloud-based solution provides advanced analytics and comprehensive insights based on continuous data monitoring.
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