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How to Prevent Spreading in High-Fat, High-Sugar Wirecut Cookies for a Scone-Like Texture?
Usually, wirecut cookies with high levels of fat and sugar are supposed to spread in the oven. However if I want to keep the high levels of fat and sugar, but prevent spreading to obtain a scone-like product, what do you suggest to do?
29.10.2024
In some rotary mouldes there are two scrapper knife controls, angle and height. How to combhine these two to increase or decrease dough piece weight? What is the optimal knife scrapper initial default heigh, from the center line of the mouldind and f...
Cracker strength
We are making a snack type crq ker and find it loses strength over 2 days post baking. Assume this is checking? Our moistures are around 1.5% post bake. We use protease and laminate 4 to 5 layers. Some crackers are strong and others seem to break eas...
Chips Ahoy
What is the best forming method for Chips Ahoy cookies? (large-sized cookie with chocolate chip inside)
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05.10.2024
This is our recipe for butter biscuit like petit beurre finger style:
Palm oil shortening 15kg 4%
Sugar 60kg 16%
Premix vitamin 0.2kg 0.05%
Lecithin 1.5kg 0.4%
Whey 1kg 0.27%
Ammonium bicarbonate 3kg 0.81%
Baking soda 1.5kg 0.4%
Dextrose 5kg 1.4%
Me...
05.10.2024
Is it possible to get recipe for butter laminated biscuit like petit beurre and mixing procedure?
Thanks in advance
Gluten Free Cracker
We produce GF crackers which are oat, maize and rice flour based. Usually we cut to a slight oval (2mm), to accommodate the shrink back that happens, to ultimately get a round shape post bake.
Dough is not laminated. It passes through gauge rollers...
How to Bake High-Quality Cookies from Frozen Dough?
I want to make cookie product using frozen cookie dough. My planning is take a cookie dough from freezer and bake it to get good quality of cookie. What kind of parameter which I need to monitor and maintain to get good quality cookies using this met...
17.09.2024
In a line of crackers, the rotary cutter has a permanent vibration that makes that the pinch and the cut are not homogeneously marked. How can I reduce this vibration or oscillation?
10.09.2024
Does anyone have a method to clean a stencil hopper when changing flavours or after production? Can I use water, or should I make a dry cleanning? Should I fully dismantle the screw, pumps and pipes?
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