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Ajit Tawde CEO - Chocolates & Confectionery Consultants International and Consultant
29.06.2021
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 larger the chip higher is the IMPRESSION of a real cho...
HEAT INPUT REQUIRED
Dear onesCan any one tell me how to calculate the Heat energy required to bake one kg of biscuits or one square meter of oven area.   Pl consider the moisture loss as 18% when you have 100kgs dough.  with at least 2% moisture still there in biscuits....
11.06.2021
What should be the ideal length of tunnel oven for small scale cracker production?
Tunnel oven for biscuit snack crackers (output = 50-100kg/hour):What should be the ideal length of tunnel oven for small scale cracker production ?How many temperature zones required to get the intended final product, and length of each zone ?What sh...
Eihab Ali and
06.06.2021
How to produce nutritional yeast
Dear thank you about writing the article I would like to know how produce nutritional yeast please if you have videos how to make I'm so interested to do that  thank you very much indeed
Flow wrapper positioning
I am moving premises shortly and want to build the ideal layout for my production and packaging that will also be BRC compliant.The last "food" stage will be lifting biscuits off trays and onto the flow wrapper in-feed. The biscuits are wrapped indiv...
How to control the acidity of extracted fat ( as oleic acid) of finished good cookies?
Hi dear all experts,How to control the acidity of extracted fat ( as oleic acid) of finished good cookies. My country std. is Maximum 1% but i am getting 1.2-1.5%. Plz provide me a solution, is it raw fat problem or process problem?Advance thanks. 
01.06.2021
Mini cheese crackers - baking system in rotary ovens ?
Can mini cheese crackers be baked in rotary ovens on trays ? Also which is the best oven system for a startup to start small with capital investment while ensuring quality of the product ?
How to calculate the proper cooling time for soft and hard dough type biscuits?
Hi  Please can any one tell how to calculate the proper cooling time for soft and hard dough type biscuits . What is the standard cooling time of different verities of biscuits ( hard dough, soft dough and wire cut cookies) Best Regards Rasika  
Jose Azevedo Product Development Manager | Biscuit Expert | Subject Matter Expert and Biscuit manufacturer
27.05.2021
Non-sweet moulded biscuits
Hello, Does anybody know about non-sweet or salted moulded biscuits in market, filled or not? Is it possible to replace sugar in its recipe with an ingredient not so expensive, keeping at least part of sugar properties? What could be the main issu...
10.05.2021
Is it possible to add some kind of material to increase the severity of the biscuits?
Hello everyone  I make salted biscuit sticks. But I want to increase the strength of biscuit sticks.  Is it possible to add some kind of material to increase the severity of the biscuits? Thank you very much 
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