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Making a Biscuit Softer and Less Sweet
How can l make my loose biscuit softer and less sweet? My current recipe is: 134kg flour,39kgs rough sugar,15kgs icing sugar,18 kg fat,1kg salt, 700g bicarbonate soda,3.5 litres syrup,140grammes sodium metabisulphate,800gramms ammonium bicabonate,1...
Drying of iced biscuits
Hi all!What are the recommended drying conditions (T°, HR%, time) for iced biscuits like Fox's Party Rings?
Georgi DM and Biscuit manufacturer
21.09.2023
Rapeseed lecithin in hard dough biscuits
Hello! In this moment we receive an offer to introduce rapeseed lecithine for replacing soya lecithine( alergen).  Actually, I found nothing about the differences between these. it is possible to appear the oxidation ? Thank you!
UNIFORMITY ON THE EXTRUDER
Hello everybody,by testing an extruder for gluten free sticks (5 mm), I could not get a uniformity to all 70 rows.Any potential proposal to solve the issue will be much appreciated.
Alison Baldwin Senior Nutrition & New Technology Manager, The Arnott's Group and Biscuit manufacturer
12.09.2023
Sodium metabisulphite
I understand some studies show that in biscuits residues of sodium metabisulfite after baking are extremely small and difficult to analyse. Are there any scientific references that confirm this?
Matthew Linja Mixing and R and D Manager and Biscuit manufacturer
11.08.2023
Looking for testing method for gluten free cracker dough
I’m having a lot of issues with variability in the hydration of a sheeted gluten free cracker dough.  I often times have to add or subtract water during a production run.  This is to enable efficient sheeting of the dough or to help with curling at t...
Amaris Turner and
08.08.2023
Air Pockets on top of basecake - rotary style cookie
Hello All, I am finding that there are large air pockets on top of a chocolate basecake that we are running. We are seeing hotter temperatures and the oil is stored in a silo outdoors. These basecakes do have docker pins however and we have made adju...
Sugar free cookie
Hello everyone! We are trying to develop a no sugar added cookie recipe but there are some challenges when we try to scale up the recipe in our production. The basic recipe includes soft type wheat flour, palm oil, maltitol, sorbitol, water, cocoa po...
23.06.2023
Oven settings affecting cookie spread
I would be interested to get the opinions of the team on how oven settings affect cookie spread during baking.Can they advise if any adjustments can be made to control / reduce spread and conversely how to improve greater spread. Another related topi...
Omar Schmidt Development of New Product & Process Bakery Consultant and Consultant
19.06.2023
The correct gelling agents
They know what type of pectin is used to make quince sweets or for a continuous manufacturing process?
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