Opinion – Page 8
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‘Sugar reduction doesn’t happen in isolation’
Amy Jackson, bakery technologist at Tate & Lyle, discusses the challenges facing bakers in sugar reduction and reformulation of bakery goods
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Bread and camping: PX+ Festival in a nutshell
Last weekend I camped, for the first time ever, in the name of British Baker. And, lying awake at 2am on Saturday, in a freezing cold tent in the middle of a field in Essex, it felt like a mistake.
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Great British Bake Blog 2018: Episode One
Has the world gone topsy turvy? Biscuits in week one of Bake Off? This is madness.
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Legal: ‘The issue with using insect-derived products is its status as a novel food’
John Mitchell, partner at law firm Blake Morgan, looks at the legal issues around enriching flour with insect protein
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’We hope to help preserve the traditional craft of Cornish baking’
Dave Williams, training advisor and bakery lecturer at Truro and Penwith College, on the work undertaken by Truro and Penwith College and local businesses to deliver a new Bakery Apprenticeship
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‘The Blue Planet series has mobilised businesses’
Speciality Breads managing director Simon Cannell on how the frozen baked goods business is working to address its plastic use.
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GDPR: What next?
John Mitchell, partner at law firm Blake Morgan, looks at what firms need to do to ensure they are, and remain, GDPR-compliant
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‘Organic pastry enables positive life choices’
Hamish Renton, managing director of food and drink industry consultancy HRA, looks at whether launches such as an organic bakery case from Pidy could represent a tipping point for organic baked goods in the UK
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‘We’ve had some brilliant successes using GPS tracking’
Steve Millward, general manager of bakery equipment company Bakers Basco, explains why bread baskets now come with chips
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Bake Off: The Professionals – Episode 10
‘Can I have counselling after this?’ wondered contestant Bharat Chandegra at one dramatic point in the final of this year’s Bake Off: The Professionals.
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Bake Off: The Professionals – Episode 9
If you like piña coladas you’re in for a treat this week as they feature in two of the contestants’ recipes on Bake Off: The Professionals.
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Bake Off: The Professionals – Episode 8
We’re going back to childhood in this week’s episode of Bake Off: The Professionals with fairy tales, lollipops and, er… macaron cakes.
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Bake Off: The Professionals – Episode 7
Cue the madness – the craziness that Bake Off: The Professionals induces in its contestants and the musical stylings of Suggs and crew.
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‘Retailers demand pack security to prevent pilfering; if it wasn’t required, plastics usage would reduce’
Graham Kershaw, managing director of supplier Macpac, addresses recent consumer and media concerns over packaging waste
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‘Compared to conventional ways of generating electricity, CHP plants can reach efficiencies of 80%’
Nigel Thompson, sales manager for gas power solutions at Finning UK & Ireland, looks at why more bakery producers are opting for combined heat and power systems
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Bake Off: The Professionals – Episode Six
This episode of Bake Off: The Professionals is brought to you by the letter ‘f’. What does ‘f’ stand for? Friendship, of course.
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Bake Off: The Professionals – Episode 5
The judges aren’t messing about this week. Armed with a ruler, they are expecting nothing less than perfection. With their often unattainably high standards, they may be a little disappointed.
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Bake Off: The Professionals – Episode 4
From Eton mess to actual mess – things went awry in the kitchen this week as a new batch of six professional teams were put to task by judges Benoit and Cherish.
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Bake Off: The Professionals – Episode 3
Forget Bake Off: The Professionals, it’s the Liam Charles show this week. I feel he has been overlooked in the previous two episodes, but this week his upbeat personality shone through.
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The wholemeal truth?
John Mitchell, partner at law firm Blake Morgan, looks at what constitutes ‘wholemeal’ flour under EU regulation