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22.12.2023
Cracker Flakiness
Hi, Needed input to get more flakiness and open texture in Mini Crackers. Tried dusting High Heat & High Moisture Initial zones Oven Profile Use of enzymes like Proteases, Amylases and Arabinases What is the best suitable wheat flour to be u...
Sugar free cookie
Hello everyone! We are trying to develop a no sugar added cookie recipe but there are some challenges when we try to scale up the recipe in our production. The basic recipe includes soft type wheat flour, palm oil, maltitol, sorbitol, water, cocoa po...
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08.02.2023
Cracker Width Expansion: Causes and Solutions
Good Day to all, We produced crackers just like Malkist. We encounter a problem in dimension, the width of our cracker expands by 2mm (from the maximum width of 70mm we get 72mm) and our packaging finds difficulties in packing our product. Th...
22.01.2023
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 to local regulations.Based on the Sodium Metabisul...
17.01.2023
Teething biscuits for babies, very hard biscuit
Hello,I work as a baker for a company that makes teething biscuits for babies. I have been tasked with finding a way to make the biscuits harder to break. So basically I am trying to make something safe to eat but too strong to break. The aim is for...
Jose Azevedo Product Development Manager | Biscuit Expert | Subject Matter Expert and Biscuit manufacturer
11.01.2023
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 since we started using a non-palm, liquid lipid (use...
08.12.2022
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) Our soft dough biscuit has less vegetable shorten...
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?
Chocolate Inside Filled Cookies Getting Hard
Liquid chocolate is getting hard inside the cookies after baking. Baking temperature: 1st Zone: 161 °C, 2nd Zone: 183 °C, 3rd Zone: 165 °C. Baking time: 12.6 minutes.Solution needed: How to get chocolate liquid after baking?
Mundy Williams and
11.07.2022
Gluten Free Cracker Baking
We manufacture a line of gluten free crackers. The main ingredients are pumpkin seed flour, casava flour and sunflower seed flour. We sheet the dough to around 2mm and cut to shape with rotary cutters. We don’t yet have the budget for a continuous tu...
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