How can you test the quality of gluten-free ingredients? Find out in our free technical paper!
Getting started: finding replacements for gluten
Gluten provides three key functions in baking formulas:
- Network: the gluten protein cluster forms an elastic network that provides stretching and extensibility to the baked goods.
- Functionality: gluten aids in dough formation by reacting with water to form gas pockets during the mixing process. The elasticity of the network aids in raising the dough during proofing and baking by entrapping the air. The network elasticity aids to avoid dough collapse in these processing steps.
- Texture: the gluten network provides a unique texture to the baked products due to the earlier discussed properties above.
Checking gluten-free flour quality
While developing gluten-free products, finding a single ingredient replacement is extremely difficult to provide the same functionality. Furthermore, gluten-free products are also vulnerable to quality variability and limitations in quality control tools. Here are some necessary steps to consider for developing successful gluten-free products:
- Functional alternative raw material
- Consistent quality of raw material
- Formulation adaptation for variation in raw material
- Achieving optimum water level depending on mixing and baking properties
- Improving product quality using dough strengthening enzymes
- Analyzing rheological properties of doughs and mixes
Learn more about gluten-free flour quality tests and control in our free paper. Download it here.
Innovation with rotary molded cookies
One machine, in particular, that I’ll be interested to check out is the Janssen F-Series from Erika Record. This rotary cookie machine is designed to create embossed or imprinted cookies. It is suitable for butter and short dough style cookie dough. Erika Record Baking Equipment has been providing industry-leading bakery equipment since 1991. Today, they continue to deliver world-class bakery equipment solutions that can address both retail and wholesale baking operations.
Erika Record Baking Equipment is a leading distributor of cookie machines and cookie depositing solutions in the baking industry today. They offer traditional confectionery depositing solutions, rotary, and wire-release solutions. That’s enough to get even the Cookie Monster down to their booth at IBIE!
Explore what else you can find at the IBIE 2022 Baking Expo here!
