Baking & Snack - June 2022 - 80

MIXING
SOME COMPANIES ARE LOOKING TO
PROMOTE " MIXING TO ENERGY " TO
PROVIDE QUALITY ASSURANCE AND
POTENTIALLY REDUCE MIX TIME.
Ms. Gay said a mobile CIP station can be connected
to the liquid dosing stations of the company's Verymix
continuous mixer.
" The main asset of CIP stations, apart from their
flexibility and mobility, is that they reduce production
downtimes by optimizing cleaning time when changing
products, " she said.
Ronald Falkenberg, regional sales director USA &
Hygienically
designed mixers
that offer a
complete
washdown
can streamline
sanitation time
and labor.
Diosna
Canada, Diosna, pointed out its latest Wendel mixer
comes with hygienically designed surfaces to avoid microbial
and particulate contamination and rounded
profiles and electronic drives that allow for a complete
washdown.
The open-frame mixer also features a bottom discharge
from the bowl that dumps dough onto conveyors
to feed the hopper.
During the past five years, Mr. McGhie said, Shaffer
has accelerated its automatic dough handling with chunkers
or dough pumps that shuttle between two mixers
and enhanced chunking systems that directly convey
dough to the production line's forming or divider hopLabor-saving
ideas for
high-volume artisan bakeries
When automating artisan baking, patience
is a virtue because this process often
requires extended fermentation times.
However, artisan operations have several
options.
" Continuous fermentation is very popular
but only in a first-in and first-out basis
and must include a clean-in-place system, "
said Ruud van Mer, mixing specialist,
Bühler Group.
Many artisan bakeries use preferments
to reduce labor for creating Old World
breads.
" Liquid pre-dough and sourdough fermentation
have been added to the artisan
bakery process to avoid a lot of manual
work and to save space and time because
the fermentation process with liquid predough
is much faster at the same result, "
said Ronald Falkenberg, regional sales
director USA & Canada, Diosna.
In a larger operation, he noted, one
mixing operator can rely on robotics to
shuttle mixing bowls on tracks from the
fermentation storage area to various mixers
at rates up to 20,000 lbs per hour.
To automate gentle mixing with extended
fermentation times, high-volume
artisan bakeries can integrate fork, spiral
and other mixers with multiple dough
rest stations, said Melanie Gay, marketing
manager for products and services,
VMI. While adding preferments makes the
mixing process more complex, combining
automation and process controls allows
bakeries to produce artisan baked goods
on a consistent basis.
" The bowls can be easily transferred
for resting, fermentation or other steps in
the mixing process, " she explained. " The
use of buffer tanks for these fermentation
steps, automatically managed by a
monitoring system, makes it possible to
implement batch technology to enable
flexible and scalable processes. The batch
technology allows a complex and long
process of mixing and fermentation while
keeping a high productivity from 15 to 16
bowls per hour. "
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