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Jos Vast Managing Partner/ Founder/ Senior Bakery Consultant in Bakery Academy and Consultant
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Managing Partner/ Founder/ Senior Bakery Consultant
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Jos Vast
De-moulding larger dough piece
Hi,We have a large rectangular rotary mould impression, scored into fingers and docked. Rough weight is 105g. With a shortbread dough, all butter (28% approx), it extracts fine. When we move to 7-14%...
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Rapeseed lecithin in hard dough biscuits
Hello! In this moment we receive an offer to introduce rapeseed lecithine for replacing soya lecithine( alergen).  Actually, I found nothing about the differences between these. it is possible to appe...
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The correct gelling agents
They know what type of pectin is used to make quince sweets or for a continuous manufacturing process?
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Arnott’s Vita-Weat – Vita-Weat crispbreads are made using Australian whole grain wheat. Our unique process cooks and mills the w...
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Oven settings affecting cookie spread
I would be interested to get the opinions of the team on how oven settings affect cookie spread during baking.Can they advise if any adjustments can be made to control / reduce spread and conversely h...
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Help us decide the ideal production amount for our soda crackers!
Hey everybody. I'm a chemical engineering student and as part of the final project of my bachelor's degree me and my group are working on the production of soda crackers from cassava, breadfruit, yam...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Biscuit paste
Hello Techs, I am trying to develop a product similar to biscuit paste. I have found Lotus biscuit spread is getting popular in African countries. Can anybody suggest the recipe for a caramel biscuit...
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Jos Vast
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...
Jos Vast
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...
Jos Vast
Biscuit paste
Hello Techs, I am trying to develop a product similar to biscuit paste. I have found Lotus biscuit spread is getting popular in African countries. Can anybody suggest the recipe for a caramel biscuit...
Jos Vast
Steel Band Stickiness Greasing Problem
We are the manufactures of chocopie, we face sickness issue in our steel band while running the base cake. Can you please suggest the process of steel Band Waxing to eliminate sticking? We tried band...
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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...)....
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Rotary Moulded Crackers
HI All,I am currently trying to make a dairylea style cracker in a rotary moulder,  The product visually looks really good and very similar to the branded version but I keep getting comments from the...
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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...
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Encrusting machine
Hi everyone, has any of you had any experience with encrusting machines? I am looking to buy one for small productions (~40 pieces/min) I could find some produced in US and Germany, but their cost i...
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How can we use flat wafer scrap?
How can we use flat wafer scrap other than recycle into the wafer filling?
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How can we use flat wafer scrap?
How can we use flat wafer scrap other than recycle into the wafer filling?
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Garibaldi Biscuit
Hello everyone Thank you for providing a platform for those who are interested in the bakery and biscuit industry to gather and use the information of the professors. We are preparing ourselves to p...
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Garibaldi Biscuit
Hello everyone Thank you for providing a platform for those who are interested in the bakery and biscuit industry to gather and use the information of the professors. We are preparing ourselves to p...
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How to reduce swarf on biscuits from rotary moulder
Hi, Is there a way to reduce the excess dough around biscuits dropped from a rotary moulder? This recipe is close to shortbread, pressed through a Deighton Rotary Moulder 2200. There are the same res...
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Laminated snack crackers in steel belts?
Hello. Has anyone ever tried to make laminated biscuits (snack cracker type) in steel oven band? Besides the blisters that may occur under the dough pieces, any other potential issues related to h...
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Laminated Cracker Seasoning Application
Hello All, we here at Paradise Foods (Papua New Guinea) have been manufacturing crackers for 30 years with the same old seasoning/vegetable oil slurry spraying application that is continuing to have...
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Seeking a mechanical icing solution
I have a small production facility (260 sq ft), turning out 1,000 biscuits per day. It's just me and I have automated the mixing, moulding and bagging, but icing is still done by hand dipping. The bi...
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Safflower Oil use in moulded biscuit dough
Has anyone ever used safflower oil on moulded biscuit dough? After replacing sunflower oil by it in a trial (1:1), it was impossible to extract dough pieces in good condition (they seem to be dry and...
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Speculas Recipe
Hello everyone  Please can you help me with a recipe and how to make a speculas biscuit And what are the spices that have been added to it thank you very much
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First time doing crackers I have some problems
Hello experts, exited to have peolple who can help me!   I am trying to make very thin crackers something like italian Sfoglie, with diferent toppings to flavor.  The dough is made with flour, potatoe...
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Problems with mold and product longevity
Greetings I am a producer of traditional biscuits made in my country, they consist of a soft dough with about 16% water and 4% fat, a mixture of 2% sunflower oil and 2% palm oil and a layer of fondan...
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Stability of plain flat wafers
We are looking to increase the stability and immunity to absorbed humidity of our plain flat wafers. What are the main issues to look into? Thanks
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Post bake jam deposite on cookie
Dear all , as mentioned on the topic , I faced an issue when the jam (aw0.5)deposit on the cookie ，it turns really soggy after 3-4 months where I expected to stay crispy for a year. Any possible ways...
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struggling to source die inserts
Hi, l have been trying to source die inserts for a rotary moulder (which does not belong to me) hence blasting is not possible, this is a new product, in an attempt to tackle inconsistent extraction i...
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Hello Panda Recipes
Dear All; Can any one help me on the recipes of hello panda biscuit? I need the recipe for biscuit to be able to injected with chocolate 
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