Method for fabrication of dough sheets and systems, apparatuses, and products thereof
AssigneeAjinomoto Foods North America, Inc.
InventorKoichi KUNISHIMA
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a dough sheet, comprising providing a batch of dough, introducing the batch of dough to a pair of rollers, processing the dough through the pair of rollers to produce the dough sheet, and outputting the dough sheet from the pair of rollers. The pair of rollers is configured to transform the dough into the dough sheet, wherein a surface of each of the rollers of the pair of rollers is a grooved surface having a plurality of predetermined grooves. The predetermined grooves can run in a same direction as a direction of rotation of the roller, and the grooved surface has a predetermined surface roughness formed by the predetermined grooves.
Claims20
A method of manufacturing a dough sheet, comprising:
- providing a batch of dough;
- introducing the batch of dough to a pair of rollers;
- processing the dough through the pair of rollers to produce the dough sheet;
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- outputting the dough sheet from the pair of rollers,
- wherein the pair of rollers is configured to transform the dough into the dough sheet,
- wherein a surface of each of the rollers of the pair of rollers is a grooved surface having a plurality of predetermined grooves, the predetermined grooves running in a same direction as a direction of rotation of the roller, and
- wherein the grooved surface has a predetermined surface roughness formed by the predetermined grooves.
An apparatus for manufacturing a dough sheet, comprising:
- a roller pair, the roller pair including two rollers configured to form the dough sheet from a dough mixture, a surface of each of the two rollers of the roller pair having a plurality of topographical features therein,
- wherein the dough mixture is mixed inside a mixer from a recipe of dough ingredients, and
- wherein the dough sheet has a predefined thickness.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.