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A healthy debate? Organic baker Andrew Whitley on plant bread and health
T he milling and baking industry’s responses to my book Bread Matters (British Baker, 6 October) are reminiscent of Nelson’s tactics when he put a telescope to his blind eye and declared, "I see no ships." Much of the evidence I assembled is based on recent scientific research, that shows ...
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Bakers Oven’s winning ways
Greggs’ Bakers Oven division has announced the results of its annual in-house bakery competition.First prize overall went to Richard Haydon, relief baker for Bakers Oven Midlands, who was assessed on 10 products that he baked on a day-to-day basis. Second place went to Paul Norman, a bakery manager at the ...
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Health claims call to bakers
Manufacturers are invited to submit health claims about their products so they can be considered for inclusion in new European laws.The European list of permitted health claims aims to increase consumer protection on health claims made on food.To be eligible, claims must be based on generally accepted science and relate ...
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Bakers Ross Dea and Michael
Costello recently enjoyed a course at the House of Bread in Asten, Austria, after winning the Piero Scacco award (arranged by the Worshipful Company of Bakers).They baked products including yoghurt bread, Nordic fruit bread, pretzels and Danish pastries during the week. Here Dea (centre) and Costello (right) discuss handling ciabatta ...
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Newcastle bakery under review
RHM-owned British Bakeries is nearing the end of a two-week review of production at its Newcastle bakery, which produces Hovis and Mother’s Pride bread.The Westerhope bakery’s 250 staff have been told the company is looking at shifting production to its other bakeries in the south, to reduce supply chain costs. ...
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The Bread Basket Bakery
Lowestoft-based The Bread Basket Bakery uses a rack oven from Tom Chandley (Denton, Manchester).The firm uses the Compacta Rack Oven to bake breads, rolls, pastries, sausage rolls and pies for the local hospital and nearby retail stores. The air-flow system and automatic rotating rack lifter allow even distribution of steam, ...
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Home baking gets second wind as shoppers buy premium mixes
Nostalgic consumers are driving a revival in the home baking sector, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.Sales of home baking products, including flour, dried fruit, cake decorations and dough, have risen by 25% over the last five years to £429m this year, and are expected to ...
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Brown flour boost on Carrs’ birthday
Carrs Flour Mills is celebrating 175 years in the business by opening a £500,000 brown flour blending plant.MD Duncan Monroe told British Baker that increased sales of wholemeal and brown bread had prompted the investment. "It gives us better quality wholemeal and brown flours, and also enables us to add ...
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Regional focus for Breakfast Week
This year’s Farmhouse Breakfast Week campaign from the Home Grown Cereals Authority features a competition to find the ’nation’s tastiest baker of regional breads’.Entry forms can be downloaded from [http://www.hgca.com/breakfast]. The closing date for entries is 10 November 2006.The week will run from 21 to 27 January 2007 with the ...
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Briefs
n Shopping centre café operator BB’s Coffee and Muffins has launched a Christmas menu including Cranberry & White Chocolate Muffins, and Christmas Crumble, which is a muffin mixed with mincemeat. There is also a Ginger Reindeer Biscuit and a Cranberry Flapjack. Christmas baguette fillings include: turkey breast, salad & cranberry; ...
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Smooth growth from bump-in-the-night
Halloween has become a short but often lucrative sales opportunity in the UK, bakers have reported.The annual festival has become well established with bakers reporting significant sales spurts that can last several weeks.Jason Jobling of WT Warren & Son, based in Penzance, Cornwall, said Halloween gave a welcome boost to ...
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Candy shop opens in Cirencester
Bakery entrepreneur and British Baker columnist Tony Phillips has branched out into confectionery with a chocolate shop in his home town of Cirencester.Chocolate and Candy was opened just over three months ago and is based on an American-style candy shop. Phillips said: "If it is successful, and we won’t know ...
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Consolidation is inevitable as costs rise, says Cooks chief
There will soon be significant consolidation in the bakery sector, the chairman of the UK’s third largest retail bakery chain has predicted.Cooks’ chairman Geoff Peppiatt said that bakers’ rising costs and falling profit margins meant that consolidation in the sector could not be avoided."It is something that needs to be ...
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Systematic development
IBA is the world’s biggest bakery show. Comprising 10 halls, there is no other show on earth where you see stands offering hospitality to customers - and those customers number upwards of 100 at a time.The fantastic variety of breads and rolls form beautiful spectacles and the cakes, though delicious ...
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Distribution watch
An example of how bakers can benefit from quality logistics services can be seen in the way that Christian Salvesen handles the UK distribution for Belgian bakery firm Vandemoortele.Christian Salvesen is one of Europe’s largest providers of logistics services, operating at over 200 sites in the UK, France, Benelux and ...
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EPP
Epsom-based EPP, has just brought out its sixth-generation MIWE ovens, recently seen on the company’s stand at IBA.Fuel consumption is fine-tuned by an energy saving heating element, a well-balanced circulator fan, and precision nozzles, which distribute the exact amount of heat into the baking chamber.The ovens can be heated with ...
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IMA Food Equipment
Since its appointment as exclusive UK importer for Zucchelli Forni of Verona, IMA Food Equipment (St Albans, Hertfordshire) has installed a number of their rack and deck ovens in bakeries in the UK.The rack ovens can be supplied with a choice of turntable or top suspending rack. Good insulation means ...
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Eurobake
The Mondial Forni Rotor Wide rotating rack, forced convection oven, from Eurobake (Bolton, Lancashire), features a rotating rack and bottom-to-top air distribution to give consistent baking, says the company.The load rack system can handle single or double racks up to 80cm x 100cm with a baking surface from 6.3 ...
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Presenting a united front
The Irish Association of Master Bakers’ conference, which represents both the plant and craft sectors, takes place every two years. It reviews what changes have taken place and predicts what may lie ahead.While one area of concern was the repeal of the Groceries Order six months ago, which no longer ...
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Making sense of the future
The key players in the baking industry must form a coalition to change the public’s perception of the baking industry as "early starts, long hours and poor wages". That was the key message from champion surfer and international rugby coach - and MD of bakery supplier Rich Products in the ...