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Omar Schmidt Development of New Product & Process Bakery Consultant and Consultant
17.09.2024
How to Reduce Vibration and Ensure Uniform Pinch and Cut in Crackers
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?
Best Practices for Cleaning a Stencil Hopper
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?
Omar Schmidt Development of New Product & Process Bakery Consultant and Consultant
02.08.2024
Water-Based Filling with Low Water Activity
To produce a water-based filling with low water activity, do you suggest any modified starch to achieve this condition? I need the filling to be liquid in the balance and at the same time the biscuit to be more crunchy.
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.
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?
Exturded Corn Flips
Hello, we need some advice about production of extruded corn snacks. We are having problems with achieving "softer" structure of snack, we tried by lowering the water content during extrusion, and also by raising extrusion pressure. The structure tha...
Weight of the Dough
Dear all, do you have any calculation for deciding theoretically for a given size of the mould say in mm L-225X W-89*X H-43? What is the bread dough or Rusk Dough to be divided so that I get full mould of bread with lid on the mould? If any th...
Basab Kumar De Operation Manager, Baraka Biscuit factory and Baraka Chips factory, Saeed Group, Sudan. and Biscuit manufacturer
28.02.2022
Biscuit paste
Hello Techs, I am trying to develop a product similar to biscuit paste. I have found Lotus biscuit spread is getting popular in African countries. Can anybody suggest the recipe for a caramel biscuit paste ?
04.02.2022
Steel Band Stickiness Greasing Problem
We are the manufactures of chocopie, we face sickness issue in our steel band while running the base cake. Can you please suggest the process of steel Band Waxing to eliminate sticking? We tried band releasing oil , found increased in diameter of the...
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.
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