We are introducing the super-compact innovative Beat 'm All Slicer first in the carpaccio market. As a result, we regularly reflect on our first carpaccio machine. In 2000 we designed the machine that cuts carpaccio into wafer-thin slices and places them neatly in a circle on foil. That is the invention of Sleegers Technique, they have a patent on it.
When the machine was finished and we went to test it at the client's factory, it turned out that it didn't quite work the way we had planned...

Cigars! How are we going to solve that?

When you slice frozen meat very thinly, it will curl. The first slices that came out of the slicer were cigars. The customer said: "That's going to be okay, isn't it?" To which Huub replied, "It always ends up fine."
At that time Huub already had a good R&D to which he said, "We have to find it in the blade, I think it has to be so and so." The engineer immediately started grinding and working on it. We put the modified knife on the machine and the slices came out neatly straight and... slid like hockey pucks much farther than where we wanted them!

One more dimension had to be added to the slicing process. The client wanted to go into production. There was a problem and we had to come up with a solution quickly. We managed to make the underside of the slices slightly rough, so they came out neatly in a circle on the foil. The client was satisfied and so were we.

In the next blog I'll tell you about the advantages of the Beat 'm All Slicer.

Please contact us for a demonstration of the Sleegers machines that are interesting for your production process.