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CHAPTER 35
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CHAPTER 36
THEORIES AND METHODS OF FREEZING
Sharp Freezing, Quick Freezing, Freezing by Immersion, Freezing by Indirect Contact, Air Blast Freezing, Freeze Drying, Fundamentals, Processing, Commercial Equipment
THE frozen food industry, as we know of it today, is maintenance costs and the actual costs of refrigeration are comparatively recent in origin. About 1865, sharp (slow) quite low but do not offset these disadvantages. freezing as a method of preservation came into use on a com
mercial scale with the artificial freezing of fish and poultry.
QUICK FREEZING
The freezing preservation of meat started about 1800. The cold packing industry had its beginning about 1905 with the
Freezing by Immersion
freezing of small fruits for remanufacture in jama, jellies, pies
As liquids are good conductors of heat, products may be
and ice cream. Commercial quick freezing cf vegetables and frozen rapidly and efficiently by immersion in low tempera
the freezing of fruits for table use started about 1929, as did ture liquids. Fundamentally, the process involves pumping
the freezing of consumer-size packaged fish, meat and poultry. a continuous stream of the refrigerant solution past the prod
There have been many differences of opinion concerning the ucts to be frozen and in contact with them, or in reverse,
merits of quick freezing foods. When first introduced, quick moving the product through the cooling solution.
freezing was acclaimed to be a panacea by causing less dam
The refrigerating media used for freezing unpackaged or
age to the cell tissues and preventing bacteriological decom lightly packaged products where contact with the refrigerant
position during freezing. Recent theories, however, indicate may result must meet Food and Drug requirements and
that the speed of freezing does not affect breakdown of the should be nontoxic and edible. Sodium chloride brine, sugar-
cellular tissues. Thus, the main reason for quick freezing is to brine solutions, and propylene glycol have been used with
increase product handling and to cool the product quickly to satisfactory results. However, problems resulting from use of
a point where bacterial, mold, and yeast growth are mini one or more of these solutions involve excessive salt penetra
mised. It is foT these reasons that quick freezing is in pre tion into the product; adherence of solution to the food, mak
dominant use in this country today.
ing it necessary to renew it periodically; and dilution of the
The following is a discussion of the principal conventional solution with moisture or juices from the product. These
methods of freezing used in the United States today. These problems are avoided when freezing canned or otherwise well-
methods are grouped according to the method of heat packaged products where there is a good protective barrier
transfer, except for the sharp freezer which, because of its between product and solution.
historical significance, is treated separately.
Immersion freezing may be separated into two categories,
that used for freezing canned products and that used for
SHARP FREEZING
freezing unpackaged or lightly packaged products. Freezersfor Canned Foods. In 1933 W. J. Finnegan patented
Sharp freezing (slow freezing) is now largely outdated and a fruit juice freezer known as the pipe or tube freezer. The
' has been replaced by mpre efficient methods of freezing. The product to be frozen is placed in a tin can and then forced
first sharp freezers consisted of insulated rooms maintained at through a tube by means of a spiral screw. The primary re
temperatures varying from +5 to --20 F. The products placed frigerant (ammonia) passes through a closed annular space in
in these rooms were usually cooled by natural convection with the outer shelf of the tube. The secondary refrigerant, alcohol
no provision for forced circulation. Hie sharp freezers were and water, is pumped around the product and is kept at -- 25 F
then modified to include banks of refrigerated shelves on by the liquid ammonia* A machine containing 6 tubular
which the product was placed for freezing. In recent years units can handle 2500 lb per hr of liquid or semi-liquid product.
these freezers have been modified so that the shelves can be
Another freezer for canned products is the can freezer built
serviced by conveyors. '
by the Food Machinery Corporation. The freezing unit is
The sharp freezer is not satisfactory for freezing consumer- essentially the same as a continuous cooker, except that ma
type packages because of its slow rate of cooling and the terials were modified to withstand low temperatures-and
excessive bulging of the package that occurs. It is primarily effects of the refrigerant, which has an ethyl alcohol base. The
used for whole or panned fish, boxed poultry, or meat.
refrigerant flows through the freezer in a direction opposite to
The rate of freezing in commercial installations is quite slow the movement of the cans. A can of orange juice can be cooled
uud may vary from 12 to 72 hr, depending on the size of the from 40 F to 0 F in 10 to 15 min.
product and the coil or room temperature. The space require
One type of continuous liquid freezer consists of two con
ments per pound of product frozen and the labor needed to centric tubes with a solid rotary mutator equipped with
load and unload the food are both quite high. Equipment spaces in the inner tube. The refrigerant passes through the
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