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INITIAL CLEANING oi the potatoes is done by wet and dry washer unit Revolving ALLISTON PLANT rubberbristied brushes and coldwater sprinkler system remove all earth and loreign matter After washing the potatoes are thoroughlyim spected and imperfect pota toes discarded Potato Processing Dynclmic Business By BRIAN BAKER Potato processing is dyn amic business remarks Christner production manager of the twomilliondollar Salado Foods potato processing plant in Allislan By the end of this season we will have pro cessed 50000000 pounds at potv aloes There are few potato growers in the district that do not sell at least part oi their crop to the plant in the two years since it was built the plant has doubl ed in size and production has tripled Besides the instant mashed potato takes that were produced here first variety oi dehydrated diced and sliced potato products complete with sauces and potato chips in three flavors are also made here now HOW IT TS DONE How can one plant handle million pounds of potatoes every week Would you like to see ior yourselt asks ltir Christner who kindly offers inventory con trol clerk Richard Abbott as guide First we see the brilliantly lighted quality control labora tory where threarshiits of teclt hnieians work day and night amidst an imposing array of modern equipment Every product at every stage oi processing is continu ously tested to assure quality good texture and flavor says Richard our guide in room down the corridor we pass two thermostatically heated pure vegetable oil stor age tanks as big as silos Next is the modern Tully eq uipped maintenance and repair work shop with everything nec cssary to make onthespot res pairs to vast and complex lin es of machinery and plumbing systems Day and night engin eers and mechanics keep the plant running gency repairs One breakage can halt an entire production line and rain smoothly and are always prepared for emer ators as big as railroad box cars stand side by side he neath descending tangle oi highprcssurc steam pipes gulp ing oil dr natural gas Rog ing lames flicker wickedly tilrough pyrex ports Panels oi dials clocks revolving graphs and red and green warning lights tell engineers exactly what is going on inside these monsters These generators produce un der tremendous pressure over 50000 pounds of steam an hour to peel wash proheat dcslarch cook dehydrate and even try potatoes Two rows oi bluepainted cl ectric pumps as big as irrigalt tion pumps send floods oi wat er to washers and destarchers This is the beginning of the production lines announces Ridlard as we enter the tre mendous conditioning room where mountain of potatoes in oneton pallets warm up otter coming from storage Robotiike hydraulic arms take the pallets iromfork litt trucks and tip the potatoes into two hoppers from which the pota toes tumble into two big scrub bing tanks Dripping wet and clean the potatoes move past scanners who reject interior tubers Only potatoes for chips have to be graded to medium site through rock oi spaced rubber rollers The two lines oi potatoes move into the peel ing room that resembles giants jungle gymnasium Scerccly less than that ot the boiler room is the roar produced by eugers conveyors bucket and chain elevators hy dro pumps pcclcrs nnd escnp ing steam in the peeling room Hundreds minutoi chip pot atoes poor through the peel ing machine the inside at which is armed with revolving abrasion discs to emerge at the opposite end peeled It team oi trimmers remove blemishes more water rinses them unique hydro pump forces the potatoes to the clup room in water medium For all other products potatlt oes are steam peeled in two retorls similar to pressure cookers Potatoes 350 pounds at time are alternately pour ed into these retorts as one is under pressure the other is being emptied and refilled Steam gushes in to blister off the skins when the potatoes tumble out jets of water slu WE PAY FARM LIABILITY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO FARM FIRE PROBLEMS LIVESTOCK FLOATERS FARM EQUIPMENT FLOATERS AT YOUR SERVICE YOU PHONE ILL SEE YOU AT YOUR HOME ice any loose skins1eernslbrinpusuptothehlghhot trimmers cut away any relt skins and blemishes terrific hiss like that of bursting steam line startle us An employee is using live steam to blast the floor clean KEPT CLEAN Everything must be kept clan remarks Richard Ev ery Saturday we wash the en tire plant down equipment and all its like spring cleaning every week In the lake room potatoes or flakes are cut into thick slices through spinning cutters Again and again the slices are drenched with clean water to remove tree starch as they pass through bewildering atr ing at revolving drumahapcd rodreel washers and heating chilling destarching and pre heating tanks Come on up to the mezza nine where we cook these sli ces suggests Richard long flight of steel steps ceiling with its tropical temper store liitytootlons stainless steel steemheatcd cooker swallows wide automatical ly spread layer oi potato site as like hungry giant At the other end the slices emerge cooked and soil reversing screw iorccs the mash through ricing plates and thence down to two huge drum dryers or below Lets look at one oi these dryers Fire smaller roller on one side of the main roller which has the same length of 16 feet but is live feet in diameter each applies thin lilm oi mash to the main drum roller In the 20 seconds it takes this his roller to re olve the steam passing thr ough it dries the mash film till less than five per cent moisture remains Clouds of cv operating steam are suckcd up through ventilators The dry iilm oi mash now dehydrated peels olt the roller like so DONT WORRY About WATER Call Us Well Deliver Water Right To Your Farm see us son SEPTIC TANKS PUMPED GENERAL TRUCKING TRACTORLOADING FILL AND TOP sou nlucb rice paper and is pulver ized in flake breaking auger An elevator takes it through to the packaging room No wonder the low of potatoes must be computed so precisely Belore we look at the chip tryer and dehydrator well see what happens in the packaging room says Richard In the packaging room be yond grading racks elevators and conveyors stand two tan tastic Borielt packaging mach mes and row of revolving chlp packaging machines with forty or filty employees attend ing them This is busy room Electronic scales in the Bar Iclt machines weigh out exact weights at takes into laminlt ntcdfoil polyethylenelined pou ches made automatically by the some machines Another set of electronic scales recheckl the welghtsoi Ihe tilled pou ches Underweight pouches are rejected Correct weight pouch es are packed into boxes and EXCAVATING TEE BARRIE EXAMINER FRIDAY MARCH 80 196 these in turn are packed into canoes for shipmmt all auto mentally Notice how the potatoes flow continuously irom the con ditioning room to here mm the raw state to the finished produciremarks Richard So brittle are chips that pne umatic bicker must be used to blow the chips oi their conveyor into hoppers above the 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