While your products are busy baking in the oven, they need available moisture, or humidity in the air. Without it, heat isn’t transferred to the product so starch gelatinization and other reactions can't take place, and moisture migration can't happen properly. That's why it's crucial to control oven humidity. Factors that influence it are: Oven Load: Humidity [...]
There’s a new cereal in town, and it brings some interesting points to the table. It’s called Tritordeum, and it’s an inter-species cross between durum wheat (Triticum durum) and wild barley (Hordeum chilense). The result is: Great nutritional, agronomic and organoleptic properties A more sustainable cereal than wheat Highly-digestible gluten, due to lower amounts [...]
It depends what you want it to do or what you’re baking. Do you want to maintain structure? Is it adding emulsification properties? Do you need something to help with volume, binding, or texture? What other ingredient interactions do you have that impact your eggs? Ok, got that. Now what? Now you can [...]
Are your customers asking for bread with more aroma and a cleaner label? We have noticed this trend of going back to sponge and dough systems for many bakeries. True, it can be challenging to use this system. It takes up space and time, and there are change-over constraints. What are the advantages of the Sponge and Dough [...]
Then here's the ingredient you need to put in. Pre-gelatinized rice flour! You'll find it most often in gluten-free baking, low-volume bread, batters and frostings. When do you use pre-gelatinized rice flour? It works well for: Thickening Binding Increasing water absorption Reducing water activity How does it work? Due to it’s production process, pre-gelatinized rice flour instantly [...]
The baking industry is looking for ways to incorporate the latest technology into favorite products, so customers can get familiar foods fresher, easier and simpler—the blend of tradition and innovation. So a bread-baking robot set up in the middle of store floors could check a lot of boxes for consumers and bakers. Have you [...]
You have a product, and it’s pretty great. But just how great is it? Or better yet, what is its quality? Defining the quality of baked goods can be difficult unless you’re using tests and benchmarks to quantify it. How can you do this? Baking tests such as gassing power, gas retention, mixing tolerance/stability, and water [...]
There are plenty of decorative icings/frostings on the market, but it’s hard to find one that can stand up to the heat. However, here is an emulsifying dietary fiber that creates a heat stable frosting or icing, while enabling the integration of healthy vegetable oils instead of hard fats, at the same time! CAVAMAX® W6 [...]
