Scored Frozen Dough Using Edible Adhesive for Score Integrity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Scoring bread dough before proofing is difficult to maintain during freezing, thawing, and baking, leading to challenges in producing consistently scored bread products in commercial operations.
Innovation Solution
Applying an edible adhesive to the scored regions of bread dough pieces before or after freezing, which stabilizes the scores during thawing and proofing and allows the dough to expand along the score marks during baking, ensuring a uniform appearance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If scoring is done before proofing, then the dough can be scored in advance for commercial operations, but the changes the dough undergoes during proofing makes it more difficult to maintain the score integrity
Solution Approach 1:
An edible adhesive is applied to the scored dough to act as an intermediary substance that bonds the scored surfaces together. This adhesive maintains the score integrity during proofing and freezing, allowing pre-scoring to be done in advance without compromising the final appearance. The adhesive melts during baking to allow proper expansion.
Solution Approach 2:
The dough is scored and adhesive is applied in advance before proofing and freezing. This preliminary action allows commercial operations to prepare dough ahead of time while maintaining score integrity through the adhesive, resolving the contradiction between advance preparation and maintaining score quality during subsequent processing.
2Productivity
If dough is frozen after scoring, then the dough can be stored and transported, but the scoring becomes difficult to maintain through freezing and thawing
Solution Approach 1:
The edible adhesive serves as a protective intermediary that holds the score together during freezing and thawing cycles. This allows the dough to be frozen after scoring for storage and transport while maintaining score consistency, enabling commercial production efficiency without sacrificing manufacturing precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive's physical properties change with temperature - remaining solid and adhesive at freezing temperatures to maintain score integrity, then melting at baking temperatures to allow expansion. This parameter change enables the dough to be frozen and stored while maintaining score consistency.
3Manufacturing precision
If adhesive is applied to maintain score integrity, then consistent scored appearance is achieved, but the adhesive must be removed or melted during baking
Solution Approach 1:
The edible adhesive undergoes a phase transition from solid to liquid at baking temperatures. During freezing and proofing, the adhesive remains solid to maintain score integrity. During baking, it melts to allow dough expansion along the scores. This natural phase transition achieves consistent scored appearance without adding complexity to the baking process.
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive serves a temporary function - maintaining score integrity during storage and proofing, then being discarded (melting away) during baking. This disposable approach achieves manufacturing precision without permanent complexity in the final product or process.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The adhesive maintains the integrity of the scores during thawing and proofing, enabling the production of consistently scored bread products with a traditional appearance.
Implementation Method 1
applying an adhesive in a score region of each scored dough piece... the adhesive would initially function to maintain the integrity and cut nature of the scoring region
Implementation Method 2
the adhesive would melt during cooking, enabling the dough to expand into the score(s)
Data Source
AI summary
A bread product is produced by forming a dough piece, creating at least one score in the dough piece, applying an adhesive to the dough piece with the adhesive extending across the score, freezing the dough piece to produce a frozen dough piece, and baking the dough piece, causing the adhesive to melt while establishing a bread product having, in a central region of the bread product, what was once a score held together by the adhesive during the early stages of baking, an internal exposed region. The outlined production steps can be re-arranged, so long as the scoring and adhesive application is performed prior to thawing of the dough piece.