Ready-Made Meals

Prepared foods are all about delivering convenience without sacrificing quality — and so is Messer. Our cryogenic solutions will cool and freeze your products with efficiency, maximizing productivity while minimizing food waste, contamination risk, and operational cost. Whether you’re preparing dumplings, hotpot products or pizza, a fast, flexible, affordable freezing and/or cooling solution from Messer could be your most vital ingredient. Messer’s uses food-grade liquid nitrogen for direct spray cooling or freezing, achieving a freezing rate of ≥5 cm/h. This forms fine ice crystals within the cells, fully preserving cell structure and resulting in virtually no drip loss upon thawing. For ready-made meals, this means less weight loss and superior taste. Messer provides professional quick-freezing equipment (cabinet-type, linear tunnel-type, IQF freezers, etc.), which goes beyond traditional freezing solutions and creates core values for customers: • Ultra-fast freezing: Freezing time is reduced to 1/6 of that of traditional mechanical quick freezing, with juice loss as low as 0.2~0.8%. • High efficiency and energy saving: Optimized spraying design reduces liquid nitrogen consumption by more than 15%. • Economical and compact: Low initial investment, small footprint, and high operational efficiency. • Reliable and durable: Simple system, long equipment service life, and low maintenance cost. • Flexible and controllable: Stepless adjustment of freezing/cooling time, with flexible adaptation to products and output. Diverse processes: Supporting freezing, cooling, and ”flash freezing", with gas consumption as low as 0.3~2.5 kg/kg.

In Ready-Made meals production, the quality of cooking oil used in frying plays a decisive role in the final taste and flour. Messer’s Gourmet food liquid nitrogen dosing technology provides an innovative solution for preserving edible oil. By dosing liquid nitrogen at -196°C just before sealing, manufacturers harness its rapid vaporization and nearly 700-fold expansion to unlock reliable value across production. The Advantages of Liquid nitrogen dosing: • Prevents package deformation: The generated pressure (about 1.5–2 bar) keeps PET bottles rigid, preserving shape and appearance throughout handling. • extends shelf life: Nitrogen expansion purges oxygen from the headspace, lowering levels to below 1% and slowing oxidation of the edible oil which extends shelf life by 30%–50%. • Preserves flavor and nutrition: The low-oxygen environment slows oil oxidation, helping lock in nutrients and preserve the oil’s nature flavor. • Enables packaging lightweighting: With internal support from nitrogen pressure, PET bottles can be made up to 30% lighter, reducing material use and lowering carbon emissions. Messer’s Gourmet food liquid nitrogen, with its high purity, provides reliable support for Liquid Nitrogen Dosing in edible oil, helping you enhance product quality and strengthen overall market competitiveness .