All British Baker articles in February 2006 – Page 2
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NewsCF system keeps an eye on quality control
CF Controls (Avonmouth, Bristol) has deve-loped a system for checking the colour and height of products including buns, biscuits, cakes, pizza bases and bread. The system measures and records heights to an accuracy of 1mm, while software analyses the colour of each product and categorises the results into one of ...
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Rational’s Center makes oven-baking foolproof
Rational (Luton, Beds) claims perfect bake-off results are easier than ever with its SelfCooking Center. The user selects the food to be baked and pushes a button; the oven selects the programme and controls the bake-off climate.The SelfCooking Centers monitor and adjust the oven cavity’s moisture/heat balance, enhancing food quality ...
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NewsNisbets caters for complete
Nisbets’ (Bristol) selection of next-day catering equipment includes a new planetary mixer, a range of stainless steel prep tables and three sizes of Bistro aprons.The Benbo Planetary Mixer is a 20-litre bench model mixing machine with a 0.5hp motor and three-speed gearbox. It features a lever-operated bowl lift, a safety ...
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Greggs worker guilty in cancer hoax
A GREGGS bakery worker has been given a nine-month suspended prison sentence after conning colleagues and her employers out of £2,400 by pretending to have terminal cancer.Judge Alistair McCallum ordered Mrs Karen Marriott, now 33, to repay the money at the rate of £30 per week at Leeds Crown Court ...
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NewsGinger Chelsea buns
Dripping with sharp lemon icing, these chewy, fruit-studded ginger Chelsea buns will introduce your customers to one of the more unusual grain varieties in Britain.Spelt is one of the oldest traditional crops and when milled into wholegrain flour gives a sweet nutty taste. It produces a dense loaf on its ...
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Strong line-up for BSB event
BAKERY industry giants are lined up to address the British Society of Baking’s (BSB) two–day “Golden Jubilee” Spring Conference, taking place, mornings only, at the Food & Bake 2006 exhibition in Birmingham. Sir Michael Darrington, MD of Greggs, Tony Reed, bakery director of Tesco, and Brian Robinson, chief executive of ...
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In Brief
- British Baker is taking a stand at the Food & Bake exhibitiona at Birmingham’s NEC on March 19 to 22. Come and see us on stall P70 in hall 7.- Milling, agriculture and engineering group Carr’s said challenging UK agricultural market conditions may temper the strong performance it ...
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RHM focuses on seeded breads rather than GI
RHM bread bakeries is evalua-ting the Glycaemic Index diet system and any weight management benefits it offers, but has so far decided against promoting it.Speaking as Hovis prepared for a £1.1m relaunch of its Granary range this week, marketing manager for Hovis Granary Stephen Davis told British Baker RHM Bread ...
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NewsMultiseed brown bread
This is a very earthy, crunchy but simple bread using multigrain seeds. It will appeal to the health-conscious customer or anyone looking for a wholesome nutritious loaf.Makes six 400g loavesStrong wholemeal flour - 600gStrong white flour - 525gMultigrain seeds, such as pumpkin, sunflower, linseeds and sesame, plus some more for ...
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NewsBread Roll Company rolls out specialities
The Bread Roll Company has launched its first new product after winning £20,000 of Home Grown Cereals Authority Enterprise (HGCA) funding last year.The grant is helping fund a £52,000 project to develop a new range of speciality ‘healthy” breads. The St Albans-based independent craft baker is set to increase grain ...
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NewsFiggy brack
Figgy brack is an easy-to-make rustic classic. This particular recipe is a variation on the traditional Irish brack, a rich moist heavily fruited cross between a cake and a type of bread.There are several definitions of how the name barm brack came about.One of these is that it evolved ...
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Brace’s changes bread’s identity
Welsh bakery Brace’s is to drop its ‘Brace’s...Bread for all Seasons’ slogan and launch the tag line ‘Where Premium Quality is the Standard’, as part of a tranche of marketing activity.Marketing director Scott Richardson said the Brace’s brand needs to “move with the market”. He commented: “Premium quality is always ...
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Belt system manages the cold
A new plastic conveyor belt has been added to Starfrost’s (York) freezing and chilling equipment range. Sourced from supply partner Ashworth, the belt has an all-plastic contact surface to give good product release and easy hygiene. It is suitable for spiral and straight tunnel freezers. The Advantage belt combines blue ...
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Brains behind a boulangerie
Cathal O’Connor, MD of Amandine (Dungarvan, Waterford) has invested in a rack oven from Double D Food Engineering. Double D’s Revorack Ovens bake 25 racks of French confectionery a week. “Once you’ve perfected the baking programme for each product, you can enter baking parameters into the controller,” he says. The ...
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Sole power in Polin’s versatile baking oven
European bakery machinery manufacturer Polin (Farnham, Surrey) says it produces almost every type of oven, from small bake-off units to comprehensive tunnel oven installations.Among its latest products is the Stratos Electric Modular Deck oven, which can be fitted with different soles, including fibre-composite for bread and pastry or armoured cement ...
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Degree course for Irish National Bakery School
The Irish National Bakery School is finalising details of a new degree course for the next academic year, writes Ann Marie Foley. It is also advertising short bakery courses for chefs in Ireland’s top catering magazine. This follows the popularity of last year’s short courses among people from small catering ...
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NewsA simple country baker
How often we are given so-called facts, which are often nothing more than guesses or wishful thinking. For example, some film star was quoted in the newspaper the other day. She said: “I was voted the sexiest woman in the world.” But by whom? At my grammar school we would ...
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NewsPotato Baker for the perfect jacket
Jacket potatoes are popular in the takeaway market, and Rational (Luton, Beds) says its Potato Baker accessory for its SelfCooking Center means food outlets can produce perfect potatoes in less time than traditional potato ovens.The Potato Baker is a rack comprising heat-conducting spikes, which transfer heat to the centre of ...
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NewsSalva’s Kwik-co reproduces deck-oven crusty quality in a bake-off
A bake-off oven designed to bake bread normally produced in a deck oven is being marketed by JBS Master Baker (Market Deeping, Peterborough).The gas-fired oven is part of the Spanish Kwik-co range from Salva. It features sole plates, which replicate the deck oven’s ability to produce crusty bread, rolls and ...
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NewsFruit bagel bar
Who says bagels have to be round? Sales of cereal bars have rocketed in recent years, as people grab a snack on the way to work.These fruit bagel bars could work in a similar way and contain an array of healthy ingredients, including fruit, seeds and nuts.Don’t forget to ...