Rotary drum system for batter coating french fried potato strips

摘要

A rotary drum system is provided for applying a batter coating to French fried potato strips prior to strip parfrying and freezing. The system comprises an elongated open-ended rotary drum 12 oriented for flow-through passage of cut potato strips upstream from a parfryer. The drum is rotatably driven about the center axis and includes internal baffles or vanes for tumbling the potato strips passed therethrough. A batter delivery manifold is mounted within the drum at a position above the center axis and includes multiple nozzles 56 for dripping or spraying a wet batter composition onto the tumbling potato strips. The batter flow rate through the manifold nozzles is adjustably correlated with the mass flow rate of potato strips through the rotary drum for thoroughly coating the potato strips, substantially without excess batter usage.