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Sandwich Biscuits with Soft, Thin and Flat Biscuit Shell
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) is a Peter's type sandwiching machine feasible? If...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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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