Stein 100 Series Breading Applicator

We designed our Stein 100 Series Breading applicator as an entry level machine specifically for granular free flowing and flour style coating materials.  We utilize our “Flat-Bed™” style of coating application and a “Level Glide™” product discharge to maintain product orientation across the width of belt.  The 100 is a low cost solution that performs well within its intended design parameters.  It can be used as a first step pre-dust or a final breading application.  It is ideal for small to mid level production requirements.

Features & Benefits

  • Independent main product belt variable speed drive from 0 to 60 FPM
  • Independent drives for cross feed auger, vertical auger and hopper drive insures precise set up
  • Adjustable lower coating bed depth, top flow hopper discharge and breading sifter
  • Adjustable pressure roll and breading blow off tubes.

Options & Models

  • Options:
  • Rotating fixed speed belt vibrators
  • Fixed height flip style product discharge
  • Available with electric or hydraulic drives
  • Models:
  • Stein 100-(XX) – Available in 16, 24, and 34 inch wide usable belts

Stein All Purpose Batter Applicator

The application of batter is typically the first “wet” step in the coating process.  This step is critical in achieving uniform and consistent coating coverage which is essential for high product quality.  Our Stein APB All Purpose Batter Applicator was the industry’s first universal applicator able to handle both conventional and highly leavened tempura style batter materials and a wide range of product substrates.   

Features & Benefits

  • Runs a wide range of products and batter materials  all in one applicator
  • Easily converted from overflow to top submerger style of application for extreme versatility
  • Adjustable pump re-circulates batter or returns batter to batter mixing system 
  • Adjustable height top submerger accommodates products of varying heights
  • Batter blow off tube helps control and maintain coating pick-up

Details

  • Designed to apply all types of batter materials to a wide range of products
  • APB is available in two configurations, Overflow style and top Submerger style
  • Overflow style for conventional batters and shapes of products
  • Curtain of batter flows directly onto the moving product to coat top and sides
  • Bottom of product is coated as product moves through a shallow batter puddle
  • Top Submerger style for unevenly shaped products, thicker products or products that float easily and require special alignment.  Also for highly leavened style batters.
  • The product is captured between to conveyor belts and moves under and through a deeper batter puddle

Options & Models

  • APB-XX All Purpose Batter Applicator 
  • Available in 16 in, 24in., 34in. and 40in. wide useable belt widths
  • Optional infeed conveyor extension

Stein DB-4Xtra Rotary Drum Breader

We designed our Stein DB-4Xtra Rotary Drum Breader for products that are best tumbled in the coating process.  It is the ideal solution for products that have an irregular shaped surface geometry, and require a home-style final appearance.  The DB-4Xtra can be used a pre-duster or as a final breader with flour coatings in a double or triple pass coating line.  It is quick and easy to set up and provides a process with a high degree of repeatability and control.

Features & Benefits

  • Features independent variable speed drive for the infeed conveyor, vertical auger, cross feed auger, drum rotational speed and discharge conveyor
  • Adjustable drum elevation to control product dwell time in the drum
  • Breading sifter conveyor to maintain coating quality
  • Push button controls

Details

  • Designed for the application of flour or granular free flowing coating materials to a wide range of food substrates that are best coated with an aggressive tumbling action
  • Typical products coated on DB-4Xtra:
  • bone in poultry items (wings & drums)
  • vegetables (mushrooms cauliflower)
  • soft pliable products like shrimp, clam strips
  • boneless chicken strips
  • popcorn chicken
  • calamari

Options & Models

  • Available in electric or hydraulic drives

Stein E Series Economy Breading Applicator

Our Stein E Series Breading Applicator is our entry level “conveyorized” breading applicator designed specifically for granular free flowing coating materials and Japanese style bread crumbs.  The “E” stands for economy as this is a low cost machine that performs extremely well within it’s application parameters.  It incorporates our “Flat Bed” style of coating application and a level glade discharge to maintain product orientation across the full belt width.  It is the ideal breader for small and mid level productions capacities.

Features & Benefits

  • Independent main product belt with variable speed drive for 0 to 60 FPM
  • Independent drives for:
  • cross feed auger
  • vertical auger
  • fixed speed rotating belt vibrator
  • Coating adjustments:
  • lower coating bed depth,
  • top flow hopper discharge, and
  • breading sifter
  • Adjustable pressure rolls and breading blow off tubes
  • Push button controls

Options & Models

  • Options:
  • Fixed height flip style discharge
  • Available with electric or hydraulic drives
  • Models:
  • Stein E-(XX)
  • Available 16 and 24 inch wide usable belt width

Stein Heritage™ Breader

Stein breading applicators pioneered the concept of automatic application of breading materials to a wide range of coated products back in 1955. Our Stein Heritage model is the newest addition to the long and highly successful line of dry breading material applicators.  It represents an innovative space savings approach and is designed for flour and fine granular free flow coating materials.  We built the Heritage on the principal that less is more.  It’s simplicity of design means less adjustments while maintaining full operational functionality. 

Features & Benefits

  • Easy to clean and energy efficient 
  • Unique vertical style breading hopper design for extremely small footprint
  • Maintains same hydration time as larger breading applicators
  • Independent main product belt variable speed drive from 0 to 60 FPM
  • Independent drives for cross feed auger, vertical auger, hopper top flow discharge, and sifter

Details

  • Designed for the application of flour and free flowing coating materials to a wide range of food substrates while maintain full belt width product orientation and gentle handling.
  • Can be used as a first step predust or final breading application.

Options & Models

  • Models:
  • Available in 24, 34, and 40 inch usable belt widths
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  • Options:
  •  Rotating belt vibrators (fixed speed)
  •  Fixed height flip style discharge
  •  Available with electric or hydraulic drives
  •  Push button controls

Stein PRoFLEX

PRoFLEX™ Multi-Purpose Breader

From the inventors of the breading machine

In today’s fast-paced processing environment, processors face new challenges, multiple coating types, and higher production demands—all while managing costs. The PRoFLEX™ breader is designed to maintain a consistent product and enable quick changeovers without the need for additional tools or carts, providing processors with a competitive advantage in a constantly changing market.

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Revolutionary Coating

  • Flexible Production: 2 breaders in 1 machine
  • Quick Conversion: Switch between flat breading and Homestyle in less than 1 minute.
  • Integrated Breading Feeder: Ensures a seamless coating process.

Fill Quality Targets: Easy to Use

  • Selectable user modes
  • User-friendly touch screen
  • Converts from flat to homestyle in less than a minute!
  • Downsize the product styling crew

Conquer Quality & Consistency – More Uptime

  • Consistent product with Recipe Control modes
  • Rugged conveyor and drive system
  • Even distribution prevents loss of breading
  • Get the most of your machine with 40” in & 40” out!

Easily Customize Your Homestyle Recipe – Adjustable / Texturing Rollers

  • Textured rollers are uniquely arranged for superior homestyle quality
  • Customize your homestyle breading using the adjustable speed rollers to achieve the distinctive peaks and valleys
  • The wheels are hassle-free, self-maintaining and sustaining with low maintenance
  • Touch screen adjustable for all different widths and lengths of product

Cutting-Edge Sanitation – Hygienic Design

  • Incorporated CIP system
  • Easy conveyor access through the expansive doors
  • Fully enclosed unit controls dust

Monitor Production – OmniBlu Capable System

  • Wide-format touch screen controls with simple navigation makes it easy for any skill level of your team
  • Automatic line control keeps track of your production

Experience the efficiency, consistency, and ease of use with the PRoFLEX™ breader, designed to meet the demands of modern processors.

Stein ProMix™

We designed the Stein ProMix Automatic Batter Mixer and Viscosity Control machine to mix and maintain adjustable mix ratios for conventional “non-leavened” and lightly leavened tempura style batters, and to recirculate the mixed batter to one or more batter applicators.  The ProMix is a fully automatic batter mixer that continuously monitors and maintains the desired batter mix ratio for consistent coating pickup.

Features & Benefits

  • Automatic dry mix feed
  • Automatic water feed
  • 60,000 BTU refrigeration jacketed, 55 gallon mixing tank
  • Centrifugal style batter transfer pump
  • Special mixing tank baffles insures quick and efficient mixing action and aids in batter cooling

Details

  • Shaft driven 1,800 RPM single impellor mixing method
  • Pressure transducer style viscosity control
  • PLC Controls
  • Nominal mix capacity of approximately 3,000 lbs./hour of mixed batter

Options & Models

  • Stein ProMix Batter Mixer

Stein T-1 Tempura Batter Applicator

Our Stein T-1 Series Tempura Batter Applicator is a specialized “total immersion style” batter applicator designed for applying highly leavened and thick tempura style batters.  We utilize a top submerger conveyor system that gently moves the product through the batter puddle ensuring complete and uniform coating coverage even for products with an uneven surface geometry.  A patented “star roller” discharge effectively transfers the coated product into the conveyorized fryer minimizing damage to the product surface

Features & Benefits

  • Used with the Stein TM Series Tempura batter mixer a precise batter level can be automatically maintained, providing a consistent dwell time in the batter to maintain pick up
  • Variable speed drive from 0-60 FPM
  • Single point adjustable top submerger to accommodate products of varying heights
  • Adjustable batter blow-off to maintain desired pick up
  • Infeed conveyors for ease of product transfer from predust step

Details

  • Designed for applying a heavy viscous leavened tempura style batter to a wide range of food substrates prior to the frying step
  • All stainless steel construction
  • Push button controls

Options & Models

  • Models:
  • T-1-(XX) Tempura Applicator – Available in 16in., 24in., 34in. or 40in. useable belt widths
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  • Options: 
  • Electric or Hydraulic Drives 
  • Special Discharge Options
  • Fish Mods: include special star rolls discharge for frozen fish portions
  • Nugget Mods:  Include extended double vertical stacked discharge
  • Optional 36 inch infeed conveyor extension

Stein TM Series Automatic Tempura Batter Mixer

Our Stein TM Series Automatic Tempura Batter Mixers are widely recognized the industry standard for tempura batter control.  They automatically proportion, mix, and transfer thick and highly leavened batters to the Tempura style batter applicators.  We designed the TM mixers to provide gentle and controlled mixing, gentle batter transfer while maintaining highly accurate and repeatable mix batter ratios.  The semi-continuous batch mixer also maintains a consistent batter level in the tempura applicator which is critical in the tempura coating process.

Features & Benefits

  • The adjustable speed rotating and orbiting mixing cage provides a quick and effective mixing action without damaging the batter
  • Adjustable floats in the 150 Liter water tank pre-measure the water for one or two bag mixes
  • Automatic feed dry mix hopper for one or two 2 bag mixes (50lbs. or 100lbs)
  • Positive displacement transfer pump delivers the batter to the applicator with no shear action
  • Remote sensor in the tempura applicator maintains consistent batter level

Details

  • All stainless steel construction
  • 60,000 BTU refrigeration coils embossed in the 31.5 gallon mixing tank provide batter temperature control
  • Nominal batter mix capacity of approximately 2,000 lbs/hr. of mixed batter (dependent on batter mix ratio)

Options & Models

  • Models:
  • Stein TM-3 Tempura Batter Mixer
  • Available in hydraulic drives only
  • Push button controls
  • Stein TM-4 Tempura Batter Mixer
  • Available in electric drives only
  • PLC controls