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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...
08.12.2022
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 get heavier, and harder cream.Thanks.
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...
How to Write Finished Product Specification?
Hi everyone. Could someone please share how to writing technique of finished products specification with a real example? Thank you
12.06.2022
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 been able to reach the desired weight and end up hav...
24.05.2022
Oreo cookies - recipe for Oreo type cookies?
Hi, 1. Is there any manufacturing scale recipe to be shared for oreo type cookies?2. Oreo cookies is consider short sweet, rich short sweet or semi sweet dough type?Thank you in adcanceRegards,Amye
05.05.2022
Shelf-Life of Lactation Cookies
Hi All,I am a home-based manufacturer of Lactation Cookies for breastfeeding mothers. I am now slowly scaling up my business and am in need of some help increasing shelf-life of the product as I have now started supplying to retailers. Currently the...
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