The clean label trend is gaining serious traction with consumers and bakers around the world. Over 75% of respondents in a recent survey of 1,300 consumers in Europe, North America, and Asia showed a willingness to buy clean labelled products over others. An opportunity in clean labelled baking is seen as over 52% of [...]
White Pan Bread What is White Pan Bread? White pan bread is a yeast-leavened baked product made from white or refined flour. It is proofed and baked in a constraining pan to maintain a consistent loaf shape and size throughout processing. It is considered a lean bakery product and is the most [...]
Bread Processing Also known as bread manufacture process What is Bread Processing? Traditionally, the term “bread processing” was used by high-speed bakers to assess the contribution of moulding or makeup stages of dough to the manufacture of bread. Today, it’s a broader term describing the overall manufacturing process of breads and buns. [...]
Frozen Dough Also known as freezing What is Frozen Dough? Frozen dough is regular dough pieces which have undergone freezing and frozen storage prior to proofing and baking steps. It is one of the fastest growing segments in the baking industry. This trend is driven by consumers' appetite for convenience and ability [...]
Wondering why so many bakers are going with the sponge and dough method? It's a two stage bread making process that involves bulk fermentation. In a fast-paced world of high speed production, it seems out of place. The sponge and dough method takes up a lot of space, the labor costs are high, processing time is long, and it’s [...]
One of the more popular preferments or yeast starters, biga uses only flour, water and yeast—and no salt. With a low hydration level, it’s on the stiff side of preferments. What does biga do to dough? It helps with: Improving the functionality of gluten and strengthening dough Shortening final fermentation time with less yeast Boosting aroma and flavor [...]
Dough Conditioners Also known as dough improvers or strengtheners What are Dough Conditioners? Dough conditioners are ingredients that improve dough processing, as well as the overall quality of baked products in high-speed production environments. They are available as concentrates or dry mixes. Most often, they're found in no time dough/straight dough systems. [...]
Mixing What is Mixing? Mixing is one of the most critical and important operations in a bakery. The mixing stage allows “inert” dry and liquid ingredients to create a very reactive and dynamic system that can be then processed and transformed into value-added products. Foams, cake batter emulsions, colloidal suspensions and doughs [...]
Fermentation What is Fermentation? Fermentation is an anaerobic biological process that converts sugars and starches into simpler substances. In baking, it causes yeast and bacteria to convert sugars into carbon dioxide, among other things. This is what causes the dough to rise. Besides dough, fermentation is also used for the production of: [...]
