2006-11-08 23:25:02 · 17 answers · asked by Puabs 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
caterers use rumblers
2006-11-08 23:29:35 · answer #1 · answered by amethyst2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to work in an industrial kitchen and we had a big thing like a mixer which you chucked the potatoes in with a pipe attached to the tap. It span round and washed and peeled the potatoes at the same time. All very clever.
I would imagine that crisp factories have a similiar machine on a larger scale.
2006-11-08 23:35:13 · answer #2 · answered by bumblebee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I worked at Walkers for 2 weeks. Theres a huge machine in which all the potatoes go in wet, and come out peeled! I think its done by magic. Or it could be the drum inside the machine with blades, and grooves to turn the potatoes so that they are evenly peeled. You cant see the drum, i had to ask someone how they were peeled.
2006-11-08 23:29:45 · answer #3 · answered by JJ London 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its called a rumbler! a vat into which the spuds go and are turned by a large disc that has a coarse surface the action of which scrubs away the surface of the tatty! Some manufacturers just wash their spuds leaving the vitamin rich skin on the tater!
2006-11-08 23:48:47 · answer #4 · answered by i_b_moog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They put the potatoes into a machine simular to a washing machine the drum has sandpaper around the inside and as the drum revolves it grinds the skin off the potatoe, then they are rinsed the same way as a washing machine !
2006-11-08 23:31:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the invention of the mechanical potato peeler in the 1920s that paved the way for potato chips to soar from a small specialty item to a top-selling snack food. For several decades after their creation, potato chips were largely a Northern dinner dish.
2006-11-08 23:30:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i used to have an attachment to my ancient kenwood chef mixer...it was like an ordinary mixing bowl but inside was very rough like a nail file. youput the potatoes in with a small amount of water and let it spin , it was great, but now we leave the skins on as they are good for you, but really because i don't have the mixer any more and i am lazy.
2006-11-08 23:36:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they dont always peel them, but anything happening to the potato will be done by machine
2006-11-08 23:27:14 · answer #8 · answered by mrs2moo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not by hand anyway, it is done by a "rumbler". A machine that rotates the spuds around therefore rubbing the skins off.
2006-11-08 23:30:28 · answer #9 · answered by loopylucy81 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i no my Chinese have a magic machine that they put dirty whole spuds in and peeled, washed ready cut chips come out!!! amazing or what !! so maybe they have one for crisps
2006-11-09 00:26:09 · answer #10 · answered by jojitsui 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they dont, wat basically happens, is there are poeple that feed in the patatoes in to this machine, where they pass along an conveyer belt and and are washed, after this, they pass through to another machine whihc looks like it has all knives in it and it jus peels all the potatoes... and then it goes through the rest of the process.
2006-11-08 23:34:51 · answer #11 · answered by IBRAHIM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋