Frying oil
Fryer elements
Three-phase fryer baskets on lift-out frames, at a surface load that does not carbonise the oil and with no pockets where food debris can bake on.
- 10 – 13.5 mm, Incoloy 800
- Assemblies 6 – 24 kW three-phase
Professional kitchen and laundry appliances
Built for twelve-hour shifts, hot oil and daily cleaning.
A restaurant fryer runs twelve hours a day at 180 °C in oil; a combi oven switches between steam and dry heat on every programme. We specify their elements for that duty, not for the nameplate.
Fryers, pasta cookers, bains-marie, combi ovens, steam generators, tea and coffee machines, hot-water boilers, vending machines and food distribution trolleys – with sheath alloy and surface load matched to oil, water, steam or air, and single- or three-phase circuits laid out to your wiring.
Professional · series
Applications · where they work
Commercial kitchens and professional laundries.
Fryers, combi ovens, pasta cookers, bains-marie, beverage boilers, industrial washers and ironers – equipment that runs twelve-hour shifts.
Key specifications
Typical series values for commercial duty.
From our specifications master. Individual designs can sit outside these ranges when the application justifies it.
| Parameter | Typical series value |
|---|---|
| Sheath diameter | 8.0 – 16 mm; 8.5 mm bains-marie and boilers, 10 – 13.5 mm fryers, 12 – 16 mm steam generators |
| Sheath materials | AISI 304, AISI 316L, Incoloy 800 (fryers, dry-running steam generators), Incoloy 825 (hard-water boilers) |
| Power range | 1 – 6 kW single elements; fryer and steam-generator assemblies 6 – 24 kW three-phase |
| Voltage | 230 V; 400 V three-phase star or delta; 208 / 240 / 480 V North America |
| Watt density | 3 – 5 W/cm² frying oil; 8 – 12 W/cm² still water (boilers, bains-marie); 12 – 20 W/cm² flowing water (steam generators, flow heaters); 6 – 8 W/cm² food contact |
| Terminal types | M5 / M6 studs with stainless nuts; ceramic terminal blocks; 6.3 mm tabs on compact units |
| Sealing options | Epoxy or silicone resin, PTFE bead, STF seal for steam environments |
| Mounting | Stainless threaded nipples G ¾″ – G 2″, round and rectangular stainless flanges, welded brackets, lift-out fryer frames |
Watt density is on the heated sheath. Values are typical; the final design is confirmed by BALÇIK TORMEC engineering. All product groups: Specifications by product group.
Typical forms
Four main groups, organised by the medium they heat.
Oil, water, steam or food: the medium sets the surface load, the sheath and the fitting.
Water and steam
Triangle-flange boiler and steam-generator elements
Triangle-flange heaters with three hairpins for boilers, steam generators, combi ovens and professional laundry, plus round-flange immersion heaters for hard tap water and chemical descaling, with stainless fittings and welded joints.
- 12 – 16 mm steam generators
- Incoloy 825 for hard-water boilers
Holding
Bain-marie and food-holding elements
Bain-marie "U" and "W" loops and tubular heaters for food holding cabinets keep cooked food at serving temperature.
- 8.5 mm bains-marie and boilers
- Sealed for water baths and steam
Beverage
Tea and coffee boiler elements
Elements for tea and coffee boilers, hot-water dispensers and vending machines, including samovar-type tea boilers.
- Flange or screw-in, AISI 304 or 316L
- Food-contact materials declaration
Also built to drawing: combi-oven and grill elements; bakery, pastry and pizza-oven elements for humid baking chambers – ends sealed with heat-resistant gaskets, sheaths black-tempered for high surface emission, smaller housings for pizza ovens – and heated platens for dough presses; as well as griddle, fry-top, bratt-pan, pasta-cooker and boiling-pan elements. Defrost heaters for refrigerated food equipment are under finned, straight rod and defrost elements.
Technical drawing · four main groups
Fryer, triangle-flange boiler, bain-marie, tea and coffee boiler.
A low surface load protects the oil, the loops cover the vat floor evenly, and the oil below the heated section stays cooler, so crumbs settle without burning.
Built for commercial duty
Robust where kitchens are hard on equipment.
Fryer elements are lifted for cleaning, bain-marie elements are knocked by utensils, combi-oven elements cycle between wet steam and dry heat. Brackets, bends and terminal areas are designed for kitchen handling, not laboratory handling.
- Three-phase balance designed at the drawing stage and verified circuit by circuit in the laboratory.
- Terminal layouts that let you wire multi-circuit elements safely in a compact terminal box.
- One quality system for the stainless tube from Balçık Tube and the bright-annealed surface – the material traceability commercial-equipment approvals ask for.
- Initial sample documentation to PPAP- or ISIR-style level for OEMs with formal supplier-quality systems.
Design considerations
Duty, medium and cleaning decide the specification.
Recovery time, oil life, scale and chemical cleaning pull in different directions – the drawing settles each one before the first sample.
Materials
AISI 304 and 316L as the base; Incoloy 800 for fryers and dry-running steam generators; Incoloy 825 for hard-water boilers. Stainless fittings and welded joints are more common here than in domestic appliances.
Watt density on the heated sheath
In oil, too high a surface load burns the oil at the sheath and leaves carbon; too low makes a heavy, slow element. The balance is recovery time – how fast the oil returns to temperature after a basket goes in.
Sealing against steam
Steam, condensate and washdown reach the terminal end of every kitchen element. For steam environments we seal with STF – moisture-tight terminal ends that keep insulation resistance stable.
Appliance standards
Typical for the finished appliance: EN 60335-2-37 (fryers), 2-50 (bains-marie), 2-42 / 2-36 (ovens and ranges), 2-75 (vending), 2-58 (commercial dishwashers); VDE; CE, RoHS, REACH; food-contact materials declaration.
Defrost elementsFor refrigerated food equipment
Liquid heatingImmersion heaters for water and boilers
STF terminal sealingMoisture-tight terminal ends for steam
Stem-type thermostatsBALÇIK TORMEC controls for boilers and tanks
Design guideSurface load by medium, sheath materials
CertificatesISO 9001, VDE approvals and declarations
Validation
Tested for twelve-hour shifts before series release.
Samples are validated in our laboratory for oil, water or steam duty; in series, every element passes a 100 % electrical test – traceable back to the raw-material lot.
Per-circuit power and resistance, leakage current, dielectric strength, insulation resistance, corrosion and salt spray and a life test in our validation laboratory. Every element passes the 100 % series test before packing.
The complete test programme: Quality and validation laboratory.
- 100 % electrical test of every series element – high-voltage dielectric strength, insulation resistance and resistance/power check.
- Leakage current at rated power input, hot and cold.
- Dimensional and terminal checks on formed and finned parts.
- Life tests on samples at rated power before series release.
Video · on YouTube
How our tubular heating elements are made.
A short film from our YouTube channel: BALÇIK TORMEC tubular heating elements from raw material to the 100 % tested series part – made in Kahramankazan since 1959.
Online catalogue
Professional-kitchen designs in our online catalogue.
Fryer, boiler, cooking and food-holding elements for commercial duty, each listed with sheath diameter, voltage and power.
Related
Sealing, coatings and neighbouring groups.
STF terminal sealingMoisture-tight terminal ends for steam and washing
Nickel diffusion coatingCorrosion and scale protection for boiler elements
Oven heating elementsGrill, bottom and fan-ring elements
Liquid heatingFlange and screw-in immersion heaters
Co-design processFunctional samples typically 2–4 weeks after drawing approval
Specifications by product groupAll groups side by side
Start from the vat, the boiler or the drawing.
Send the geometry, recovery-time target, power and voltage. Our engineers propose loop layout, sheath and surface load – and confirm them in the laboratory.