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Jose Azevedo
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Making a Biscuit Softer and Less Sweet
How can l make my loose biscuit softer and less sweet? My current recipe is: 134kg flour,39kgs rough sugar,15kgs icing sugar,18 kg fat,1kg salt, 700g bicarbonate soda,3.5 litres syrup,140grammes sod...
Air Pockets on top of basecake - rotary style cookie
Hello All, I am finding that there are large air pockets on top of a chocolate basecake that we are running. We are seeing hotter temperatures and the oil is stored in a silo outdoors. These basecakes...
Sodium metabisulphite
I understand some studies show that in biscuits residues of sodium metabisulfite after baking are extremely small and difficult to analyse. Are there any scientific references that confirm this?
Soft and Chewy Cookies
Good to all!I would like to ask for the cookies. Aside from the moisture, what factors need to consider to make soft and chewy cookies? Many thanks!
Sandwich Biscuits with Soft, Thin and Flat Biscuit Shell
We would like to make sandwiches using biscuit shells which are very soft, thin (3mm) and flat. (a) what kind of forming methods are possible? (rotary moulding, rotary template, depositing, etc.) (b)...
Tips for Incorporating Sodium Bicarbonate and Proteases into Biscuit Dough?
Hello, I would like to know what is the most appropriate way to incorporate sodium bicarbonate and ammonium or proteases into a biscuit dough ( in this moment these are solved in water and incorporate...
Using Hot Air to Prevent Dough Sticking in Gauging Rolls: Is it the Best Option?
In one of my travels, I saw a factory using hot air on the cracker dough surface, between gauging rolls. Is this the best option when compared with room temperature or cold air, for mitigating dough s...
Sulfite Calculation
Hello everyone,I need some help in understanding how to calculate sulfite residues in order to check that the amount of Sodium Metabisulfite added to our products (biscuits and crackers) is compliant...
Wirecut cookie dough hardens very quickly
Hello Friends, We recently noticed that our wire-cut biscuit dough hardens very quickly during the cut, causing variations in weight and disassembling the extruder rolls. This seems to happen si...
Wirecut cookie dough hardens very quickly
Hello Friends, We recently noticed that our wire-cut biscuit dough hardens very quickly during the cut, causing variations in weight and disassembling the extruder rolls. This seems to happen si...
Wirecut cookie dough hardens very quickly
Hello Friends, We recently noticed that our wire-cut biscuit dough hardens very quickly during the cut, causing variations in weight and disassembling the extruder rolls. This seems to happen si...
Wafer Cream Consistency - How to Get Heavier, and Harder Cream?
Our wafer cream is light, (s.g. 0.9) (we are mixing the cream with a beater in a planetary mixer) and soft. We would like to get a cream with totally different eating quality. Please advise how we can...
How to Slower Down the Hydration of Dough?
Dear All, We are facing problem in our soft dough biscuit at Moulding area (hydration of soft dough is so fast that way, discharge of dough at Moulding is less and rejection ratio is high)...
Protein crunchy wafer - How to get the filling to be more spreadable?
Hello,we are developing new protein enriched wafer. To get the optimum level of protein content, we put 25% milk protein isolate inside of the filling, but our main problem is how to get the filling t...
Checking in rotary cutter
Good morning! We developed a new cracker and realized it has an important percentage of Checking. How can we improve them?Thanks in advance!
Oven band selection
In the same tunnel oven if we want to make cookies and short dough/moulded biscuit, which oven band is generally suggested?
How to Make a Chocolate Ice-cream sandwich biscuit?
Dear allI am trying to produce a chocolate biscuit for the use with ice cream, most importantly it should have the cake like texture when added to icecream.Firstly, I do not know if this type of biscu...
Blisters and hollow bottom in rotary moulded biscuits
I´ve read the article about rotary moulded biscuits. It is really very interesting. I would like to go deep with the problem of blisters and hollow bottom in the finish product. Please, could you tell...
Weight Issues with final cracker package
Hello Everyone,We have been having issues with the final packaging weight of cream crackers.  Each internal package should weigh around 167 grams * 6 packages = 1 kilo.  However, lately, we haven't be...
Water migration in cream filled puff pastry
Hi i'm making some mini puff pastry rolls filled with cream, the filling cream is made 50% fat, 47% sugar and 3% flavor.      But in a time lapse of one week , the pastry roll turns wet and the fillin...
How to fix a rotary moulded dough so it doesn't fall off the back roll (compression roll)?
Hello everyoneI have a problem that has been bothering me for a long time.I work with ROTARY MOULDED dough and the dough falls off the back roll (feed roller / compression roll). It can work fine for...
Marie biscuits with soapy taste
Hi, Amye here.Issue: marie biscuit having soapy tasteRoot cause I have in mind: imbalance pH, saponification process which happened when ammonia bicarbonate reacted with shortening. Question: Is there...
Advice on a generic recipe and a generic process of Snack fish Crackers type?
Hi and good morning.  I'm trying to develop some crackers like whales or gold fish , I have tried everything but I couldn't get the texture (hollow n flaky) and the flavor. So I'm here. Can you help m...
Recipe for soda crackers lamination and drying methods?
I need cream crackers recipe with fermentation mixing, lamination and drying methods. 
Why does wire cut biscuit dough get sticky when using oil?
Hello When using oil in a wire cut type cookie (no chips or inclusions), it gets sticky.It causes a lot of problems in process (extruder roll stuck, bad piece deposit, breakage of wires, etc...)....
Why does wire cut biscuit dough get sticky when using oil?
Hello When using oil in a wire cut type cookie (no chips or inclusions), it gets sticky.It causes a lot of problems in process (extruder roll stuck, bad piece deposit, breakage of wires, etc...)....
Baking thin crackers
Hello! We are a young company that manufactures crackers made from brewer's spent grain, in an artisanal way. Our crackers are thin (1 mm thick). My problem is that I can't cook my crackers evenly and...
Choco Chips and Cookies
Dear All,The addition of Chocolate flavoured chips is always a great way to get a chocolatey bite in the cookies. Most of us are aware that these are compound based. SIZE & COUNT MATTERS: The larg...
Checking in sweet Laminated Biscuits (Marie) after using hot water in dough
After using hot water (~55°C) to reduce dough mixing time in Marie biscuits line, checking occurrence has increased significantly. Could these two factors be related? I normally associate checking...
Checking in sweet Laminated Biscuits (Marie) after using hot water in dough
After using hot water (~55°C) to reduce dough mixing time in Marie biscuits line, checking occurrence has increased significantly. Could these two factors be related? I normally associate checking...