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OwnerRoberto Leopoldo CASTRO GENERA, Olga Alicia LOBO IRUEGASinventors
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The present invention refers to a new, different cooking process of products to be nixtamalized, for instance, corn, as well as a specially designed reactor to be used in the deep thermal treatment. Essentially, the process comprises the loading of a mixture of product to be nixtamalized and water into the container; shaking of the mixture by air injection from an air compressor; separation of floating residues and discharge of wastewater; introduction of hot and clean water into the container and the addition of lime, thus creating a product-water-lime mixture; stirring of the product-water-lime mixture by injecting air from the air compressor; igniting the burner until a target temperature is obtained in the reactor container; and turn off the burner and conditioning of moisture inside the reactor container for a determined period of time where prior to the end of the determined period of time it is proceeded to shake the cooked product-water-lime mixture by air injection from the air compressor.
In a reactor with a container, an air compressor, a gas burner, a combustion chamber, at least two waste valves and a gas exhaust chimney, a process for the production of nixtamal comprising:
A non-continuous operation reactor, designed to work with loads of product to be nixtamalized that comprises:
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