Methods For Producing Elbow-Shaped Crackers
AssigneeKraft Foods Global Brands LLC
InventorsKenchu A. Tham, Edward Kevin McHugh, Steven Peter Zubanas
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Abstract
A method of forming elbow-shaped crackers using a die cutter is provided. By one approach, the method includes first preparing a cracker dough, and then sheeting the cracker dough to form a dough sheet having a thickness. Next, the formed dough sheet is advanced through a die cutter to form a plurality of elbow-shaped dough pieces from the dough sheet. The formed dough pieces have a non-symmetrical degree of curvature between top and bottom sides thereof so that the formed dough pieces have a recognizable elbow-shaped configuration and the plurality of formed dough pieces are nested together by the die cutter so that there is no sheeted cracker dough remaining between adjacently nested dough pieces.
Claims12
A method of forming elbow-shaped crackers using a die cutter, the method comprising:
- preparing a cracker dough having a moisture level between about 2 and about 3 percent;
- sheeting the cracker dough to form a dough sheet having a thickness;
- advancing the dough sheet through a die cutter to form a plurality of elbow-shaped dough pieces from the dough sheet, the formed dough pieces having a non-symmetrical degree of curvature between top and bottom sides thereof so that the formed dough pieces have a recognizable elbow-shaped configuration and the plurality of formed dough pieces are nested together by the die cutter so that there is substantially no sheeted cracker dough remaining between adjacently nested dough pieces;
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- baking the dough to form an elbow-shaped cracker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.