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SUPPLIER SPOTLIGHT
Vegan creams
A S Harrison & Co recognises that a growing market means greater demand for new style, dairy free creamers. The company’s range of UHT cooking creams are blended to attain a full body texture in your product.
The already reduced creams can save time during preparation, with vegan and vegetarian cooking creams also coming in the form of whipping fat.
A S Harrison says it believes in knowing where its product comes from, and is working together with suppliers to attain a fully traceable system of raw materials.
All of these products are ideal for savoury application, pasta, ready to eat meals, pastry
and baking.
Achieving the perfect homestyle coating
HOMESTYLE coating is an increasingly popular trend in convenience products. Traditionally it is a golden, flaky coating created by hand, which is notoriously difficult to produce on an industrial scale. However, the right equipment using an automated process makes it possible to create the perfect look and crunch of homestyle coating.
THE RIGHT FOUNDATION
An accurate flour pre-dusting is key to a crispy bite. To get an attractive, crunchy product, it is vital to keep the flour condition consistent and get optimum coverage of the product. That may sound simple, but working with the fine particles of flour is a science of its own.
MAXIMISE THE PICKUP
Tempura batter is the ideal base for a flawless layer of coating and controls the pickup of breading. The challenge is to get optimum coverageoftheproduct.
The better the batter coverage, the better the pickup, and the better the yield.
GET THE AUTHENTIC LOOK
Homestyle’s textured look is formed as flour breading and batter fold into layers on the product’s surface. The best way to authentically create this effect is using a drum. When it rotates, the product drops from a height, creating a controlled mechanical force. This force and the length of time in the drum is essential to building the layers of coating and creating the flaky texture. Handlingbetweencoatingand
frying is also critical to ensure products do not stick together and the delicate layers of breading are preserved.
TALK TO THE EXPERTS
Many factors combine to create the perfect homestyle coating. Marel offers an integrated, full line solution that makes the most efficient use of ingredients and delivers consistent, high-quality homestyle coated products. At the heart of the solution is the RevoBreader, which guarantees the ultimate coverage and optimal handling ensuring the very best product everytime. ✷
UHT SOY CREAM (VEGAN)
A vegetable-based alternative cream to dairy cooking cream. It is dairy and gluten free, as well as already reduced and designed to not split in processing. Its creamy texture is designed for cooking applications and savoury pastry.
UHT DAIRY FREE
WHIPPING CREAM
An excellent sugared, gluten-free, non-dairy topping. Its formula is a perfect blend of performance, taste and value in decorating, coating and filling your cakes and desserts. It is also available as Gluten Free and Unsweetened GlutenFree. ✷
MEASUREMENT technology helps a user ensure impeccable food quality while taking HACCP regulations into account. For those involved in food manufacturing, food processing, food preparation and serving, it is important to understand the different measurement methods and suitable instruments.
For instance, automated climate monitoring reduces the manual effort and increases security thanks to versatile alarm functions while a combi thermometer can prove to be a real time-saving miracle with Incoming Goods.
WHICH INSTRUMENT
IS BEST?
Spot-check measurement with hand-held measuring instruments play an important role, particularly in Incoming Goods and during food preparation. If you are looking for a portable measuring instrument, you should ask the following questions:
● can you penetrate the goods, or does the measurement have to be taken non- intrusively? Penetration measurement determines the core temperature so is more accurate but it does damage the packaging; and
● are you out and about a lot with the thermometer in your pocket? Then a folding thermometer makes sure you do not injure yourself.
NON-CONTACT, NON-INTRUSIVE
In Incoming Goods, non- contact infrared measurement is used often as it provides fast results without damaging the product or the packaging. However, an infrared thermometer measures only the surface temperature.
In order to record the core temperature of foods, penetration measurements are
The right measure
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