Superb performer
GEA CookStar Turbo
The GEA CookStar Turbo is the world's only industrial spiral oven that combines impingement airflow with horizontal airflow in one oven concept. This brings that extra flavor, color and crispiness to the product that no other spiral oven can match, with the flexibility to cook a wide variety of products.
GEA CookStar Turbo 600
Ultimate flexibility and throughput
The CookStar Turbo can color natural products, with a minimum of color additives. This unique function provides uniformly roasted products and sets new standards on throughput. The unique impingement function allows the oven to produce coated and uncoated products without any compromise on product quality.
Main applications
There are almost no limits for cooking with the GEA CookStar Turbo: poultry, pork, beef, fish and meat substitutes; coated, uncoated and natural products even those that are hard to grill or roast, with market-leading throughput.
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
Exceptional performance
- Faster browning and roasting with a higher cooking yield
- Most efficient cooking for all product recipes
- Highest throughput in the industry
- Better color development than any other spiral oven
- Perfect color and core temperature consistency
No compromise on 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 with Turbo impingement functionality
Process control and efficiency
Technical details of GEA CookStar Turbo
| Product specifications | GEA CookStar Turbo 600 | GEA CookStar 1000 Turbo |
| Belt length | 60 to 86 m* | 117 to 160 m* |
| Belt width | 600 mm | 1000 mm |
| Max. cooking / grilling temperature | 250°C | 210°C |
| Min. product height | 15x15x15 mm | 15x15x15 mm |
| Max. product height | 75 to 130 mm* | 90 to 140 m* |
| Climate control & moderating exhaust control | standard | standard |
| Infeed & outfeed height | 1000 mm | 1150 mm |
| Dimensions L x W x H | 9288x4481x4855 mm | 12910x6350x5830 mm |
| Machine weight | 18000 kg |
50000 kg |
Add-ons
Options GEA CookStar Turbo
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.
Downloads
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