Apparatus and method for manufacturing bread

Abstract

A method according to this invention is comprised of a forming step to form a sheet from a block of bread dough that is kneaded from the raw materials for bread, a further forming step to form a bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheet, a cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and a placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough that were cut at the cutting step into a baking mold so that at least one cutting plane faces upward. If there are air bubbles between layers of the bar-like pieces of dough, the air bubbles can escape from a cutting surface of the bar-like pieces of dough when they rise and expand at the fermenting and baking steps.

Description

[0001] This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for manufacturing bread. Particularly, it relates to an apparatus and a method for placing bread dough in a baking mold.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION[0002] Usually, in manufacturing bread, bread dough is cut in a suitable size and placed in a baking mold. Then it is baked in an oven after a final fermenting of the bread dough with yeast.[0003] Generally, the quality of the internal structure of bread that is baked in an oven is dependent on the form and direction of the bread dough that is placed in a baking mold. Thus, research has been continued to improve the methods of placing bread dough.[0004] Various placing methods are well known. For example, after a block of bread dough is extended and shaped into sheets, these sheets are rolled cylindrically (a bar-like form) by a molding machine, etc. Then, the rolled bread dough is curved and formed into a V-shape (disclosed in reference No. 1) and is placed in a baking mold. Placing ...

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Benefits of technology

[0014] The present invention is intended to overcome these disadvantages and to provide manufacturing methods without any air holes being formed in the baked bread.

[0020] As explained above, since the present invention includes the forming step to form the bar-like dough by rolling or folding the sheets of dough, includes the cutting step to cut the bar-like dough, and includes the placing step to place the bar-like pieces of dough in the baking mold so that at least one cutting plane of them faces upward, if there are air bubbles between the layers of the sheets they can easily escape from the bar-like pieces of dough, and high-quality bread may be manufactured efficiently.

Problems solved by technology

In this case, air bubbles may rise between layers of the rolled bread dough when layers of a formed roll are slackened or gaps are generated between them.

As a result of the air bubbles in the rolled bread dough, large air holes may occur in baked bread and degrade the quality of it, because the air bubbles cannot escape from the rolled bread dough.

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