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Why using ice in the bakery industry 

-  What is bread: it is production resulting of a mix between water, flour, salt and yeast, mixed together in order to create a homogeneous paste called dough.

- This dough is prone to heat-up quickly as a consequence of both mixing energy and fermentation.

- If the temperature of the dought became too high during the mixing process, the dough would enter into secondary lactic and butyric fermentations causing unwanted bacterial growth and bad taste.

. Refrigeration of the dough is needed during the mix process in order to control the fermentation.

 

Geneglace solutions :

 

Geneglace replaced a simple ice maker and ice bin by a fully automatic system with ice production, storage, weighing and delivery directly into the mixers.

 

Benefits to the bakeries are substantial : less labour required, no handling of the ice, thus more hygiens.

    

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