Cookies Vs Biscuits

Cookies and Biscuit  have difference in taste , bite  and as well as  in production process . It starts with dough the cookies have  batter or short dough where as  biscuits  are made of tighter dough which are subjects to more machinability with laminators , gauge rolls and  cutter / moulders .

Biscuits

Cookies

Most people confuse cookies with biscuits. The truth is when it comes to Cookies

and biscuits, there really isn’t much to compare. Cookies are softer and tastier than traditional biscuits. Cookies use wire cut technology that allow them to have a soft and chewy texture. Biscuits on the other hand, due the high compression of the dough piece in between the rubber roller and the die roll cavity, give a denser texture. When it comes to chocolate chips and fruit ingredients, cookies allows the inclusions to embed themselves in the midst of the rich dough, to give fantastic flavour and taste. Biscuits on the other hand, run a risk of burning the inclusions while baking, which is why most ingredients end up on the bottom of the biscuit.

Biscuit  production line 
Cookies production line 

Sugar Grinders - Major Bakery equipments

Sugar  is a major ingredients  for  all bakery products   whether in  bread , biscuits , cakes or wafer biscuit along with flour and fat . Addition of  sugar can be done in

• Crystals or Granules
• Powdered Form
• Sugar Solution
• Invert Syrup

All above mentioned  types of  sugar additions are done as per the requirement of  bakery products .. Mostly powdered  sugar are used to enhance the taste( sweetness )   of the product due to better mixing in dough stage  .

Powdered sugar are obtained  from Sugar Grinders  which  grinds sugar granules into powder form and  are basically of two types

Basic Types of  sugar grinder  are

Hammer types mill
Pin types mill

Particle  sizes of  these powdered  sugar can be altered through mesh   size

Capacity of Sugar Grinder/Pulveriser  : 500kg/hr - 1000kg/hr

Normal components of Sugar grinding systems  apart from  Sugar grinder  are

Screw conveyor  Or  Spiral conveyor -  Operators need to keep in mind the hygroscopic  nature of sugar  which may clog these conveyors frequently hence any wet sugar or high moisture sugar should be avoided  for grinding .

Dust Collector Bags : These are required to collect sugar dust  as huge amount  of sugar dust is generated while grinding  . These dust collector bags traps the dust  and these could be used in production . Dust collectors reduces the waste and keeps  the  environment dust free which very important for any bakery unit . Filter bags need replacement after  bags starts choking .

Safety precaution -  Sugar being hygroscopic in nature has tendency  to get fire on higher temperatures  hence  we should always ensure electric arrestors to the sugar grinding components such as mill, filter bags ( critical) etc.

One should always place  permanent magnets bar s into infeed hopper  for metal detection in the sugar .


Major Sugar Grinder supplier are

International
Bauermeister
Stephan Machinery

Local
Kaps Engineers
Mangal machinery