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A method of heat treatment of products advanced through a chamber by circulation through the chamber of hot, humid air that is evacuated, is supplied with humidity and heat and then blown back to the chamber, includes the step of supplying heat and humidity to the air by atomization into the circulating air of excess water of a temperature higher than that intended in the chamber. An apparatus for carrying out the method includes a chamber comprising one or more subunits, through which subunit(s) the products to be thermally treated are passed, a fan which on its draught side is connected with the subunit for exhaustion of the humid air and on its delivery side with a flow passage for blowback of the humid air to the subunit, and a water atomizer for water of a higher temperature than that desired in the scalding chamber. The method provides for obtaining a stable heat treatment at varying load and actions of heat and cold.

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