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EDi washers go green
Industrial Washing Machines’ latest EDi range of utensil washers has been added to the government’s Water Technology List, which recognises products that protect the environment by saving water.Its inclusion on the list means that the range qualifies for the Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECA) scheme operated by Defra (the Department for ...
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Pepsi talks entertaining on the phone
Britvic and PepsiCo have announced that Pepsi will be incorporating quick-response (QR) codes across its brand in a bid to provide entertainment on-the-go. Using mobile phone technology, the codes, which will appear on more than 400 million packs, will enable consumers to gain access to content provided by Pepsi via ...
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Fresh from the farm
We bake our cakes with eggs fresh from the farm, which gives them a really good colour," says Liz Hedges of Bryngwenyn Farm, who hand-collects eggs from her brood of hens daily. "We believe in proper free-range chickens, which can make it a bit harder to locate the eggs!" she ...
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Festive fir
Easy-to-make edible breads over seasonal periods are a sure-fire winner. I demonstrated this technique at the Bakers’ Fair and everyone was amazed at how simple, but effective these breads were.Decorative breads should have centre stage in bakery window displays. They are fantastic added-value, considering the dough could ...
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Firefly finds a way to Recharge
Firefly Tonics has launched its new drink ’Recharge’. Available in Pomegranate & Echinacea and Rosehip & Ginseng flavours, it contains fruit juices (white grape, pomegranate, plum, blood orange, rosehip), with botanical extracts, including kola nut, elderflower and chilli. The drink contains no added sugar or artificial ingredients and has been ...
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Fine for ’light’ loaves
Northern Irish bakery Irwin’s, has been fined £1,500 for selling underweight bread, after launching a 600g loaf ahead of next year’s EU directive that lifts historical UK bread weights.The underweight loaves were found during a routine weight check by a Trading Standards officer in a supermarket in April. Thirty-eight ...
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Fresh grounds for growth
At the European Coffee Symposium held in London recently, Paul Ettinger, head of international food and beverages at Caffè Nero, said Britain’s coffee shop sector needs to look at new ways of minimising the impact of the recession, including attracting more evening trade, selling more iced drinks and, possibly, ...
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Sandwich guru
We have recently been developing a range of ’open sandwiches’ for a chain of excellent gastro-pubs we supply, writes The SoHo Sandwich Company’s Adam Gilbert.Technically these are not really sandwiches. Layered and stacked on a crisp bread pedestal, they’re more closely related to the canapé. But whereas canapés call for ...
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Lincat makes rapid toast
Lincat has launched a new conveyor toaster.The CT1 has adjustable temperature and conveyor speed and can produce up to 340 slices of toast per hour.Both upper and lower elements are adjustable in order to control browning and it features a one-sided toasting function which can be used for products ...
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Mouthing off
"If you think Islington is all air-kissing, cocaine-snorting, gym-going, Guardian-reading, latté-slurping, organic, free-range, GM-free munching fashionistas, think again. It’s worse than that - much, much worse than that"- a new report titled ’Invisible Islington: The Dirty Secret of Café Society’, by poverty charity Cripplegate Foundation, lifts the ...
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The Princi principle
A long-time destination for anything from gay bondage wear to, well, gay bondage, pockmarked with seedy snaking stairways and haunted by trench-coated gents shuffling into ribbon-stripped doorways, Soho is the scene of many a piquant fancy. Not least of these is Alan Yau’s altogether more salubrious fetish: opening eating holes.The ...
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Reporting in
== Gordon Polson ==Director, The Federation of BakersThis year has certainly been eventful so far for plant bakers. We still do not know the full picture following the harvest. Although the UK wheat crop produced a healthy amount, the bulk of the wheat seems to be low-grade. Without adequate amounts ...
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Seasonal seller
Although available all year round in frozen or dried form, fresh cranberries are in season now. Native to North America, they are the fruit of low-growing, creeping shrubs that grow in acidic bogs. When the fruit turns red in early October, the beds are flooded and a harvester removes the ...
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== Premier’s debt talks ==Hovis owner Premier Foods has confirmed reports in the national press that it has hired advisors to help push through a speedy reduction in its debt burden. The company’s principal bankers - Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland - have appointed accountancy firm Deloitte to ...
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== Charity at BIA ==British Baker can announce that the total amount raised at the Baking Industry Awards for the Bakers Benevolent Society is £5,577.50.== BBS tea ==The annual Bakers’ Benevolent Society Afternoon Tea for the residents of Bakers’ Villas in Epping, will take place on Sunday 23 November, in ...
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== Bakery rise forecast ==A new report from Datamonitor has predicted that the UK bakery and cereals market will grow by 1.7% by 2010, to reach £8.15bn. Bread & rolls was the biggest category in 2007, it reported, at 37.4% of the market, followed by: cookies/sweet biscuits, 19.1%; breakfast cereals, ...
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== Finsbury increase ==Finsbury Food Group has released its Annual Report 2008. It states the first 10 weeks of the year to June 2008, have seen its upward sales trend continuing. Like-for-like sales have grown 13% and adjusted profit before tax increased by 68% to £7.7m, compared to £4.6m in ...
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Study reveals high salt content in baked goods
Many croissants, pastries and muffins that are commonly consumed for breakfast contain more salt than a rasher of bacon, it has been claimed. The revelation followed research conducted by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH), which looked at more than 200 food items. It found that that many sweet ...
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The latest boozy bakery products
A range of new festive bakery products have been launched using branded alcohol from culinary alcohol supplier, Thomas Lowndes - part of Beam Global Spirits and Wine. Tesco are now using Courvoisier VS Cognac for the first time in its Finest Mince Pie range, including its Tesco Finest 12 Mini ...
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Survey reveals coffee shops are more popular than pubs
Latte is the new lager, according to new research commissioned by Costa Coffee. The survey conducted by market research agency, Opinion Matters, revealed that coffee shops have overtaken pubs as the UK’s favourite social hang-out. Of the people surveyed, 72% were said to prefer coffee shops to pubs for catching-up ...