Crispy Outside, Springy Inside, Seafood Flavor Locked｜TONLE Cuttlefish Ball Frying Line

Cuttlefish balls are popular aquatic surimi products widely used for hot pot ingredients, oden, frozen prefabricated dishes and seafood snacks. Favored for the original delicious cuttlefish flavor, springy and firm texture together with golden thin crispy crust, they enjoy stable orders all year round. As surimi gel products, cuttlefish balls are spherical with special density and tend to float when heated. They set strict requirements on temperature precision of frying machines, conveyor protection and oil residue purification, making them a challenging product to process for aquatic food factories.

Many aquatic food manufacturers still adopt old-style frying machines and simple frying equipment to produce cuttlefish balls. Ordinary frying machines respond slowly to temperature changes. Oil temperature fluctuates sharply after bulk feeding, making it hard to stably control frying heat. If oil temperature is too high, the surface of balls gets burnt instantly, while the inner surimi heats unevenly, easily forming hollow cavities and cracks and ruining the springy texture. If oil temperature is too low, the frying cycle extends. Cuttlefish balls absorb excessive oil, taste greasy, covering the pure seafood flavor. The crust tends to soften after storage and shorten the shelf life. Traditional frying lines feature simple mesh belts. Spherical cuttlefish balls roll and drift easily in oil, squeezing and colliding with one another. The ball surface cracks and deforms, finished products show inconsistent shapes and appearances, leading to high raw material losses.

During frying, peeled surimi scraps and fine residues sink continuously to the bottom of the oil tank. Old frying equipment lacks an online slag scraping structure. Residues carbonize under high temperature, frying oil darkens and deteriorates rapidly, bringing burnt odd flavor to cuttlefish balls. Factories have to stop production frequently to replace frying oil and manually clean residues in the oil tank. It increases frying energy consumption and operating costs and interrupts continuous production of the frying line. Traditional frying equipment can hardly unify the color and taste of each batch of cuttlefish balls. Great quality differences exist between batches, failing to meet standardized order requirements from prefabricated food chain brands.

Aiming at the frying pain points of surimi aquatic products like cuttlefish balls, TONLE fully automatic cuttlefish ball frying line. The whole set of frying equipment is made of food-grade 304 stainless steel with no sanitary dead corners. It is easy to disassemble and clean, suitable for long-hour non-stop continuous frying operation in factories. This frying line is equipped with a multi-point constant-temperature frying system. Operators can set frying temperature freely, and adjust frying duration flexibly via frequency conversion speed regulation mechanism. It solves industrial troubles such as burnt exterior with raw interior and mottled coloring, preserves the natural sweet flavor of cuttlefish and ensures crispy crust and springy texture.

The machine adopts double-layer pressing mesh belts to prevent balls from floating and rolling. Materials are conveyed in a flat single layer, reducing collision and friction between products, protecting the surface of balls and lowering cracking and damage rate. Equipped with dynamic residue-filtering frying system, it continuously filters surimi scraps and residues during operation to slow oil oxidation, extend the service life of frying oil and effectively cut frying oil consumption. This frying line supports electric heating, gas heating and other heating modes with high thermal efficiency and lower energy consumption. The modular frying line can seamlessly connect with upstream forming equipment as well as downstream vibrating de-oiling and air cooling equipment to realise full-process automatic operation, reduce manual contact and guarantee food safety.

With mature frying technology, TONLE cuttlefish ball frying line stably controls finished product quality and cuts production losses, helping aquatic food factories steadily produce high-quality fried cuttlefish balls and seize market opportunities of prefabricated aquatic ingredients.