Chips Processing Machine

A chip is a slim slice of a vegetable deep fried or baked until crisp. Different types of vegetable products are used for making chips like potato, corn, banana, sweet potato, apples, etc. These chips acts as snacks and are used as an appetizer. Chips are prepared, fried, baked and are then packed for the consumption. Chips are either simply cooked and salted or or can be seasoned by adding different types of flavors. The most popular types of chips are potato chips, banana chips and French fries.

Potato Chips
Potato chips are made up of thinly sliced potatoes that have been deep fried and salted. Potato chips are first peeled by a peeler and sliced by a slicer into different shapes and sizes. After slicing they are dried in drying unit and then fried in a fryer using oils and then they are dried again so that the oil content outside the layer is reduced. Later they are vacuum packed and the transported to the market.

Banana Chips
Banana chips like potato chips are crispy snacks normally made from under ripe fruits by frying the slices in the oil. Banana are sliced evenly through a hand slicer or rotating slicer and are then dried. After the moisture content in the sliced banana is reduced, it is deep fried and salted. Banana chips are of different types like banana figs, savoury banana chips and sweet banana chips. Banana figs are dried either in the sun or artificial means before they are converted to chips, whereas savoury banana chips are dried for short period of time until they attained rubbery texture. For sweet banana chips, the sliced pieces are soaked into sugar syrup or honey.