The oven is perhaps the most critical step in the baking process. Yet, over baking is easy to do, and happens more than you realize. So it's important to get it right to avoid waste or a low quality product. For a precise bake, you need to understand the three crucial oven zones: Oven [...]
Crumb Analysis What is Crumb Analysis? Crumb analysis is the visual quantification of the sliced surface area of a baked product. This technique is used to observe the internal cellular structure of yeast- and chemically-leavened products to help assess their texture, sensory and eating qualities.1 Main attributes determined by crumb analysis of [...]
Vital Wheat Gluten Also known as gluten What is Vital Wheat Gluten? Vital wheat gluten, or simply VWG, is a highly functional protein that has been separated from wheat starch and other grain components. It is used almost exclusively in high-speed bakeries to improve dough strength and provide additional dough tolerance to [...]
