Puff Pastry Cutting

Ultrasonic cutting machine: a powerful assistant for puff pastry cutting

1. The dilemma of traditional cutting methods

In the food processing industry, traditional cutting methods face many challenges. Firstly, traditional cutting methods have insufficient accuracy. Due to the strong pressure exerted on the material, the cutting effect is not good for soft and elastic materials, and it is even more difficult for viscous materials. Taking puff pastry as an example, traditional cutting can easily cause the pastry to deform and cannot guarantee a regular shape after cutting, which affects the appearance quality of the product.

Secondly, traditional cutting methods have low efficiency. When cutting sticky objects, it is easy for the blade to stick, affecting cutting speed and efficiency. At the same time, pressure needs to be applied to the object during cutting, which can easily deform the soft or fragile pastry, increasing the time for adjustment and re cutting, further reducing production efficiency.

Furthermore, traditional cutting methods have higher costs. The use of traditional cutting tools often leads to a large amount of material waste, which undoubtedly increases production costs for expensive puff pastry materials. Moreover, traditional cutting tools require frequent blade replacement and high maintenance costs.

In summary, traditional cutting methods have problems such as insufficient accuracy, low efficiency, and high costs in the food processing industry, which seriously restrict the development of the food processing industry.

2. The rise of ultrasonic cutting machines

• Advantages in Snow Crispy Cutting
  As a popular dessert, the cutting process in the production of Snow Crispy is crucial. Ultrasonic food cutting equipment has demonstrated many advantages in cutting snowflake pastries. Firstly, it can generate precise and stable cutting force, ensuring that the size of each snowflake puff is uniform and consistent. The cut snowflake pastry has a delicate incision, no chips, no sticking to the knife, and multi-layer products do not mix colors. Whether it’s snowflake pastries made from materials such as marshmallows, cookies, almonds, or peanuts, ultrasonic cutting machines can easily handle them. Secondly, ultrasonic cutting machines have the characteristic of high efficiency production. Traditional cutting methods often require a lot of time and manpower when cutting snowflake pastries due to the viscosity and complexity of the material. Ultrasonic cutting machines can quickly complete cutting tasks, greatly improving production efficiency. At the same time, the device is energy-saving and environmentally friendly, and does not generate excessive heat and noise during the cutting process, meeting the requirements of modern green production. In addition, the ultrasonic cutting machine has a wide range of applications, not only for cutting snowflake pastries, but also for cutting various other types of food, truly achieving multi-purpose use with one machine.
• Advantages in cutting thousand layer pastries
  In the cutting of thousand layer pastries, ultrasonic food cutting machines also perform well. It is non stick and has a smooth and neat cut surface, ensuring the beauty of the thousand layer pastry. The high-frequency vibration generated by ultrasound will reduce the resistance during the cutting process, making the cut thousand layer pastry less prone to deformation and maintaining its original layering and crispy taste. The cutting head is made of titanium alloy material, which has the characteristics of high strength and corrosion resistance, and will not have any impact on food. Moreover, due to ultrasonic vibration, only a small amount of product residue adheres to the ultrasonic generator, exhibiting a self-cleaning effect to a certain extent, reducing cleaning time, improving cutting efficiency, and reducing labor costs. The ultrasonic cutting machine can be perfectly qualified for the cutting task, whether it is originated from Türkiye’s Mediterranean layered pastry or the ancient legend of Qi’s layered pastry. It is suitable for cutting fragile and sticky food, making the production of layered pastry more efficient and convenient.
• Advantages in Butterfly Crispy Cutting
  The advantages of ultrasonic cutting machines are also very obvious in the cutting process of butterfly pastries. It can achieve automatic transmission function, greatly saving labor costs. The operator does not need to manually transport the butterfly pastry for cutting, just place it on the conveyor belt, and the equipment will automatically complete the cutting task. The titanium alloy blade is durable and corrosion-resistant, and can maintain a sharp cutting state for a long time. Compared with traditional cutting tools, the blades of ultrasonic cutting machines do not need to be replaced frequently, reducing maintenance costs. Convenient operation is also a major feature, as high-performance components make the cutting process smoother and improve work efficiency. At the same time, the ultrasonic cutting machine cuts the blocks evenly, without sticking to the knife or shedding chips, effectively reducing raw material waste. The cut butterfly pastry has a beautiful appearance and consistent size, which enhances the product’s market competitiveness.

About Cheersonic
Cheersonic manufactures the leading portioning equipment for bakeries producing fresh and frozen desserts. Since 1998 bakers have used Cheersonic machines to cut, slice and portion cheesecake, pie, layer cake, loaves, butter, cheese, pizza, sandwichs, and more. Cheersonic offers ultrasonic cutting solutions that support start-up bakeries and high production commercial facilities alike. Small standalone machines can be used in manual baking facilities and large inline robotic solutions aid in high speed production.

Cheersonic offers many ultrasonic slicing models, both inline and offline applications, with production speeds of 80 to 1,500 cakes or pies per hour.

Cheersonic’ latest offline introductions include ultrasonic cutting with or without divider inserts between each slice. This improves the quality of the cut and makes for a much better product presentation for the customer. In addition, robotic arm improves the speed, efficiency, and accuracy of the cutting process, producing professional looking products every time.

Chinese Website: Cheersonic Provides Professional Ultrasonic Cutting Solutions