MA's Pasta in Austin, Texas showing DEMACO mixer for long goods pasta production. MA’s Pasta makes pasta for both retail and commercial customers, and offers its own Calogero’s brand.
This video shows a vacuum mixer in action from a DEMACO extruder for continuous production of long goods pasta, such as lasagna or spaghetti. Feeding the main mixer is both a premixer and a trim return system. The premixer coats the Durum Semolina or flour particles with a uniform covering of water to facilitate full hydration during dough production. The trim return recycles the good pieces of pasta leftover from cutting the spaghetti or lasagna to the correct length by putting the “trim” back into the mixer. The trim return has a rotary airlock so that a good vacuum is maintain in the mixer. In a DEMACO dry pasta line, the entire mixer has an airtight seal, and the entire mixing process is accomplished under vacuum.
The mixer shown is a DEMACO “T” style basin mixer, with all stainless-steel construction. With respect to pasta production, superb performance in the mixer directly impacts the entire process. The mixer has two shafts that rotate and each shaft has multiple paddles that agitate the mix just enough to ensure good dough production, but not too much to cause damage the gluten structure. The paddles are oriented in a way to move the mix to the end of the mixer as the Durum Semolina or flour becomes fully hydrated and forms a homogeneous dough.
The mixer is filled so the mix level remains just above the shafts and below the top of the paddles. At the end of the mixer, another set of short shafts with paddles is located in the “T” section. Once the Durum Semolina or flour is fully hydrated with water, pea size dough balls drop into the extrusion unit on the far end of the T-mixer. The extrusion unit kneads the dough and presses it through the die to form the shape. The double shaft mixer produces an excellent, homogeneous mix for production of artisan quality pasta.
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