If you are interested in the optimization of the temperature profile in your bread and bun manufacturing process. look no further than the leading Reading Thermal SCORPION® 2 Profiling System and Data Logger as well as our various sensors and sensor arrays.
Reading Thermal, a Reading Bakery Systems brand, has researched and investigated the commercial baking process since 1999. Our team of heat transfer experts developed the SCORPION® 2 Data Logging Measurement System, now an industry standard, which measures and maps the essential baking parameters of temperature, air velocity, heat flux, and humidity.
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When you manufacture bread, buns, artisan bread, rolls, cakes, biscuits, or other bread products, you know that several stages are temperature-dependent, including oven-spring, drying/dehydration, and color formation. However, large bread and bun ovens like BakeTech, AMF, and Turkington present some challenges with regard to the placement of the SCORPION® 2 Equipment in the oven.
Unlike biscuit and cracker tunnel ovens where the SCORPION® 2 can simply ride on the conveyor, bread and bun ovens necessitate a specialized carrier. Placement is critical in order to produce accurate and repeatable data collection.
Specialized carriers are available for SCORPION® 2 Equipment to provide easy loading and unloading on endless conveyor ovens and tray and grid conveyor ovens.
Also, long bake times and the need to produce the Bake Cycle S-Curve have led Reading Thermal to design a set of solutions just for bread and bun bakers:
Reading Thermal’s Temp+Airflow Sensor Array profiles temperature and airflow simultaneously across the width of large tray and grid conveyor ovens. There are nine Temp+Airflow sensors spaced evenly across the length of an aluminum bar. The array comes in three sizes to match the most popular bread oven conveyor widths.
Reading Thermal’s Pan+Dough Probe™ is a dual probe unit that is placed under the bread or bun dough and simultaneously captures the pan/dough interface temperature and the dough core temperature.
A copper spade is pressed against the pan by the weight of the dough and measures the critical pan/dough interface temperature. A vertical stainless steel probe penetrates the dough, to a fixed distance from the pan, measuring the dough core temperature used to produce the Bake Cycle S-Curve.
The Pan+Dough Probe™ provides accurate, repeatable results that are impossible to attain with hand-placed thermocouples. It connects to the Temperature Interface device that can accommodate five dual probes.
Bakeries around the world depend on the Bake Cycle S-Curve Analysis to optimize their baking profiles. The analysis provides the critical insight they need to adjust ingredients, zone temperature settings, and bake time. SCORPION® Software Version 8 (SV8) will automatically calculate the three key S-Curve data points – yeast kill, gelatinization, and arrival.
Reading Thermal can help you resolve optimization of the temperature profile in your bread and bun manufacturing process and give you the critical information you need to correct problems and maintain optimum process conditions. Get in touch with our headquarters in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, at (610) 678-5890 Ext. 2, or contact us online to explore our innovative products.