Homestyle Chicken Wings Line

Homestyle chicken wings are very popular products in convenience food environments, both at home and in QSR restaurants. JBT Marel has developed a dedicated convenience food process for this type of poultry product, delivering consistently prepared wings that only require a short frying time before consumption.

The Homestyle Chicken Wings Process produces high-quality coated wings in a consistent and repeatable manner. The integration of processing technology and software ensures the production of convenience products with maximum added value.

Injecting and marinating: adding value and flavor

Our Schröder IMAX injectors work based on classic injection curing by means of hollow needles. Injecting achieves the desired flavor profile such as taste, bite and juiciness as well as improving yield.

Unlike the conventional tumblers available on the market, which are loaded batch by batch by hand, ValueDrum has been developed for the in-line production of coated or marinated fresh products.

After injecting and/or marinating, chicken wings can be transported to the coating steps.

Coating: pre-dusting/flouring

Pre-dusting, or often referred to as flouring, creates a ‘glue layer’ for enhanced coating adhesion for the following coating steps. Specifically, this steps helps to prevent batter and crumbs from sliding off during cooking.

Coating: tempura battering

After a fine layer of pre-dust, chicken wings are automatically transported downstream to the tempura battering machine, during which the chicken wings are fully immersed in tempura batter. This guarantees all-round coverage however uneven the product surface. When products leave the machine, an air-knife blows off excess batter.

Coating: breading

To achieve a flaky coating appearance, a dry breading is applied by tumbling the chicken wings in one of our drum breading solutions. This process ensures optimal homestyle coverage and a consistent finish across the entire product.

The entire coating process is automated, which greatly reduces manual labor and operator dependency.

Frying, cooking, freezing and packaging

The homestyle coated wings are then par fried in our industrial frying solutions for a golden, crispy result. To fully cook the products, further heat treatment is required. Industrial linear and spiral ovens support continuous flow, while contact cookers and searing or grill marking equipment deliver texture and visual appeal. Depending on your product requirements, our experts will advise the most suitable industrial cooking solution.

The Frigoscandia self-stacking spiral freezer is the most compact, hygienic and efficient spiral freezer we’ve ever made. Our spiral freezers will fully freeze the chicken wings, followed by transport to our end-of-line packaging solutions.

The JBT Marel Software QC solution automates quality control procedures. This digitalization prevents operators from making mistakes and creates a paperless working environment. The Line Profiler tool is particularly useful for a convenience line. It configures the required line set-up per master recipe and with the single click of a button can send the programmed settings for this specific configuration to the machines.

• Real-time data analysis ensures production to specification
• Continuous OEE insight to improve the production process
• Recipe management ensures product consistency
• Reliable, digitized QC process

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Whatever your processing needs - from the products you run to the scale you operate in - our broad service capabilities, proactive service agreements, expert know-how and extensive coverage mean you’ve got the support you need – where and when you need it.