blast freezing
Rapid industrial cooling
Blast freezing is a method of rapidly freezing food or other materials by exposing them to extremely cold air circulated at high speed.
The fast freeze prevents large ice crystals from forming, which would damage cell structure and degrade texture.
Commercial food operations use blast freezers to preserve quality in meat, seafood, and prepared meals: The shrimp were blast frozen immediately after harvest.
- refrigerationHeat removal for preservation
- quick freezeRapidly solidify by cooling
- snap freezeFreeze extremely quickly
- freezeBecome solid from cold
- chillCold sensation or relaxation
liquid nitrogen · ice · cold air · walk-in freezer · cold chain · frost · heat exchangers · temperature control · cooling systems · cryobiology · food preservation · frozen food · fish fillets · supercooling · phase transition · cold storage · compressors · refrigerated trucks
- Freezingquick freeze, flash freeze, deep freeze, freeze drying, subzero
- refrigerationcompressor, refrigerator, refrigerant, condenser, refrigerants
- fish processingfish processing, deboner, fillet knife, factory ship, conveyor belt
- flash freezingquick freeze
- tuna fishingalbacore, bigeye, bluefin, bluefin tuna, skipjack
- frozen seafoodfrozen seafood, frozen fish
blast freezingdefrosting
Removing accumulated ice
thawing · searing · broiling · reheating · unfreezing