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Lye bath for salty sticks snacks
Hello everyone, can anyone answer me what is the recommended temperature and concentration of lye bath for treating pretzels and sticks type of snacks? Thank you.
J G and
23.09.2021
Baking thin crackers
Hello! We are a young company that manufactures crackers made from brewer's spent grain, in an artisanal way. Our crackers are thin (1 mm thick). My problem is that I can't cook my crackers evenly and they bend during cooking. We use an electric conv...
02.09.2021
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 customer that they are digestive like.  I have ver...
10.08.2021
Funding a new business
Hi everyone,I tried funding a new line of filled shortbread biscuits via crowdfunding (Kickstarter), however the campaign did not go well (here is how they looked like in various flavours).I realise the audience here is worldwide and tech-oriented, h...
Thermoforming packaging materials suppliers
Hello everybody, can someone send me the contacts of the manufacturers of thermoforming plastic packaging materials (blister packaging)? Does anyone have experience with this type of packaging? The problem is to find the right combination of mater...
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
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  
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