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I have been working with biscuits, crackers, wafers, panettones and other cereal snacks for 20 years. Starting in manufacturing, then R&D, product mastership and later, in process development. Currently I am managing innovation and cost saving initiatives at Kellanova.
Why do semi-sweet laminated biscuits, like Mary, show a higher incidence of rancidity than others? Besides being baked at higher temperatures, are there other process or recipe factors that could be c...
Why do semi-sweet laminated biscuits, like Mary, show a higher incidence of rancidity than others? Besides being baked at higher temperatures, are there other process or recipe factors that could be c...
In some rotary mouldes there are two scrapper knife controls, angle and height. How to combhine these two to increase or decrease dough piece weight? What is the optimal knife scrapper initial default...
Normally one single temperature is enough, without any special profile. Usually 10' at 10°C is enough to cool a cream. But it can be much longer and cooler if you deposit with a stencil creamer and th...
What are the recommended temperatures and cooling profile for a cream fillied (sandwich) biscuit cooling tunnel, considering a line with 4-5 in baking time?
I wonder there will be any issue in making very thin crackers, (2mm thick, non laminated, 30x30mm dimension) with a large cracker line. If there are any issues, what equipment is suitable?
I am having a challenge with my cream for my biscuits the pump in the drums is not pumping consistently could it be the texture of the cream or its a faulty pump.
My recipe:
225 kgs Icing su...
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...
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...
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?
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...