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BAKED In Science S2E28: IBIE and BakingTech 2019
What’s your favorite event for the baking industry? If you don’t attend any expos or conventions, you really should start to. Or you’ll miss out on new innovations, valuable connections and informative sessions. Today, we get a special behind-the-scenes look at two of...
The Secret to Baking Crackers
What’s the secret to the perfect cracker? These light, crispy products make up a key sector of the baking industry with plenty of room for new innovation, flavors and textures. However, their process is unlike many other baked goods or bakery products. Here’s your...
Create a Signature Bread with Sourdough
Tucked away in the heel of Southern Italy lies the cozy little town of Altamura. This small village, like many Italian cities, is famous for a particular cuisine. Naples has Pizza, Sicily has Cannoli, but Altamura has the Altamura Bread. This bread is so renowned for...
The Story of Freekeh
Have you ever looked into the history or background of different ingredients? There are some interesting stories—the kind of stories your customers like to hear and that add value to a brand. Like the ancient grain freekeh. Freekeh is fire roasted green wheat with a...
Working with Preferments, pH and TTA
Preferments are an essential part of the breadbaking process, impacting key attributes and development. To optimize your preferment, and final product, you'll need to understand how preferments work, and the role pH and TTA plays in them. Preferment is the general...
What’s with the Sprouted Grain Trend?
You've probably noticed sprouted grain products sprouting up everywhere. There's a reason bakers and customers are jumping into this trend. Some of the key benefits are: Increased amount of vitamins and minerals Increased bioavailability of nutrients Rich source of...
BAKED In Science S2E27: Baking with Cannabis
What’s a new frontier for the baking industry? Cannabis edibles. Legislation at the state and federal level is opening doors for a new market. And while there are a fair share of hurdles and unsteadiness, there is plenty of room for profits and growth. Thinking of...
5 Tips for Whole Wheat Bread
Bread has been making a comeback, but it's still a bit of a hard sell right now. But whole wheat bread brings a lot to the table: It reduces risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer It's high in fiber, nutrients and antioxidant activities As...
An Organic, Non-thermal Kill Step for Seeds, Grains and Nuts
If you work with organic seeds, grains and nuts, you know the problems that arise when it comes to food safety. Heat-based pasteurization can influence sensory attributes and germination. Chemical fumigation isn’t organic, and irradiation means a stigma on the label....
Why You Should Bake with Ancient Grains
If you’re looking for the baking trend of the future, try looking back—way back. With consumers on the lookout for healthy, natural, sustainable products, the baking industry is finding innovative solutions through ancient grains. There’s no denying the weight clean...
Have You Thermal Profiled Your Frozen Dough?
The frozen dough market is growing everyday and becoming more important for bakeries who offer “ready-to-proof” and “ready-to-bake” frozen dough for the production of a wide variety of products like par-baked, artisan bread and laminated products instead of baking...
Change the World. Be a Better Baker.
If you really want to succeed with your career or company, you can't just keep doing the same things. You need to improve, try new things, and learn how the experts do it—so you can do it better. That's why at BAKERpedia we're committed to providing education and...
Bake a Better Clean Label Product
Clean label is a growing and large trend in the baking industry. Consumers, especially younger generations, are looking for original, healthier, simple and more familiar products that create a long-lasting customer adherence. Baking these products requires rethinking...
BAKED in Science S2E26: Adam Yee Discussing Emerging Technology with Tom Mastrobuoni, CFO, Tyson Ventures
On this unique episode of BAKED in Science, Dr. Carson presents the podcast series My Food Job Rocks, hosted by Adam Yee. On his podcast, Adam talks to all kinds of industry professionals to help inform people about the cool jobs available in the food industry. On...
Try Something New: Baking with Barley
If there’s anything we’ve learned over the last few years, it’s that baking with the usual wheat flour isn’t the only option. With the popularity of clean label, functional food and ancient grains, we’re getting better at expanding our horizons when it comes to grains...
