Coating IQF Foods with Sauce

A pilot-plant demonstration unit for freezing layers of sauce onto individually quick frozen (IQF) foods is being installed this month at Air Liquide America Corp.’s food laboratory in Countryside, Ill. The Cryomix™ C2 demonstration unit, with a capacity of 250–450 lb of finished product, will be available for testing by food companies under actual production conditions.

IQF foods have been available since the 1960s. Products are frozen in individual pieces rather than in blocks, allowing the use…