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3 Ways Oven Airflow Makes Your Product Better

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Oven airflow plays a crucial role in producing a better, more consistent cooked product.

The breakpoint air stream, formed where the high- and low-velocity airflows collide, is ultimately what cooks your product — replacing the cold area around your product with the hot air that will cook it.

It goes without saying, then, that the oven airflow has the ability to either over-cook or under-cook your product, depending where it’s located on your smokehouse truck. The closer your product is to the breakpoint, the more it gets cooked — producing a darker color, greater yield loss, and making your product drier.

The reverse is also true: the further from the breakpoint, the longer your product takes to cook — producing a lighter color, less yield loss, and not drying your product as much. The longer cook time is what causes the product closer to the breakpoint to over-cook.

We explained the science behind all this in our ultimate guide to the oven breakpoint.

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The Easy to Understand Guide to Smokehouse Breakpoint

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Smokehouse Breakpoint. If you work with industrial smokehouses, or are in the market for one, you’re likely familiar with the term. It is the most important factor in your smokehouse, after all.

But what exactly is the smokehouse breakpoint? How does it form? Why is it so important? How does it affect your product?

Even those in the business of cooking and drying product, or purchasing smokehouses for their company, have trouble answering those questions.

If the breakpoint really is the most important factor in your smokehouse (and you’ll see below, it really is!), then it’s imperative to understand what exactly the breakpoint it and how it affects your product.

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2 Features You Need in a Smokehouse Truck to Improve Airflow

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The smokehouse truck plays a crucial role in the strength and health of an oven’s airflow.

As we’ve mentioned before, the airflow, or more specifically the breakpoint, is the most important feature in any smokehouse or dehydrator. It cooks product in the oven, and is responsible for yields, color, and consistency.

Better airflow equals better product.

It stands to reason then that you’d want to invest in equipment — be it a smokehouse or a smokehouse truck — that helps optimize the airflow in the oven.

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4 Best Features that Make Oven Airflow Better

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Oven airflow plays a crucial role in making your cooked or smoked product better.

The ability to control oven airflow has been tied to increased product consistency, more consistent product coloring, and improved product yields (meaning less weight loss). When you can control exactly where the oven breakpoint will occur, and create multiple breakpoints in the oven, you eliminate hot and cold spots on the rack and your product cooks more consistently.

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4 Best Features to Look for in an Industrial Smokehouse

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Finding the right industrial smokehouse for your food processing facility can be difficult.

Do a quick Google search for industrial smokehouse and you’ll find plenty of companies selling what they consider to be the best smokehouse on the market — each with a list of features and options that can make the decision tricky.

Knowing which options you need, and which are just extra features that cost you money but don’t really add any value to the oven or your product, is key to making the right choice in your smokehouse purchase.

But how do you know what features you need? We’re glad you asked!

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3 Smart Reasons to Buy New Oven Accessory Equipment

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You’ve taken the leap and invested in a new industrial oven (smokehouse, dehydrator, or steam oven) to optimize your cooking operation, but now you have a question to answer: what about the oven accessory equipment?

Trucks, trays, racks, smoke sticks — the list goes on and on.

If you’re like most food processors, the temptation is to just stick with the oven accessory equipment you already have, especially if they will fit in your new oven. You did just drop a good amount of money on a new oven, why would you want to spend even more to get all new accessories?

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7 Easy Ways to Safely Use Smokehouse Trucks

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Smokehouse trucks are a vital part of any cooking operation. Moving products into and out of ovens and smokehouses, transporting products from one work area to another, allowing the product to cool makes smokehouse trucks indispensable to an efficient operation.

However, when used improperly, smokehouse trucks can pose a safety hazard to your employees.

Overloading a truck, placing hands in the wrong places, not properly balancing the cartload can all lead to both musculoskeletal disorders and immediate injury.

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1 Affordable Way You Can Decrease Smokehouse Cook Time

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Time is money. That statement is especially true when it comes to the amount of time your product spends cooking in your smokehouse.

The longer your smokehouse cook time, the higher your energy and operating expenses will be. Not to mention, when your processing operation revolves around product cooking in your smokehouse, everything else gets affected – cooling, further processing, packaging, and shipping. Saving even 45 minutes of cook time would yield immense benefits to your whole operation.

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9 Obvious Signs You Need to Rebuild Your Smokehouse

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A smokehouse or dehydrator is the central component of any cooking operation. Everything else – from further processing to packaging – revolves around the time your product spends in the smokehouse. There isn’t much you can do until your product is fully cooked.

Cooking your product to get the right flavor, consistency, and temperature takes time – and if your smokehouse isn’t functioning at high efficiency, it could be taking more time than necessary. The longer it takes, the more money it’s costing you. As the old adage states, time is money.

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9 Benefits of RockWool Insulation in Smokehouses

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One of the biggest components of our smokehouse rebuild service is updating the insulation in your oven. Insulation has a big effect on the efficiency of your smokehouse. High quality insulation will help keep your smokehouse at the proper temperature for even cooking, giving you a quality finished product, while a low quality and cheaper insulation, or improperly installed insulation, will allow heat to dissipate, costing you energy and money.

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