Before you can dunk that delicious piece of biscotti in your latte it must be twice-baked and sliced to perfection. The process to bring a piece of biscotti from the bakery to your table is age old and has grown beyond its medieval Italian roots to become a modern worldwide [...]
A commercial kitchen asked our engineering team to design a durable wire cheese slicer that wouldn't break or get damaged in the high impact environment of an industrial production facility. The result is the FMC, a heavy duty stainless steel table top wire slicer. Our customers use the FMC to [...]
Tofu has become an increasingly popular product in food production facilities, and while FoodTools specializes in dessert portioning equipment, we've adapted several of our solutions to be used for cutting tofu cubes. Cutting Tofu Cubes The tofu cube cutting process is not unlike slicing desserts. Tofu's consistency lends itself to [...]
If you search "how to remove a cheesecake from the pan" on the internet you'll find a myriad of instructions involving springform pans, plastic wrap, oils, stove tops, and even blow torches. Wowza! While these methods can be effective for home bakers, commercial bakeries need something more consistent and efficient. [...]
In this tutorial, Sergio Caballero is changing a horizontal slicing blade on a slabbing machine (CS-8 Series). Blades can be replaced for wear and tear, removed for cleaning, or to install a different style of blade to slice a unique product line. Follow these easy steps and watch the video [...]
FoodTools hosted the BEMA Tortilla and Flatbread Panel discussion during the 2017 BEMA Convention in Southern California. The flatbread industry has been experiencing incredible growth in recent years, so the panel discussion was well attended and interactive as participants from tortilla and pita companies got involved. Sergio Caballero moderated the [...]
Last week we received a message from a baker that reaffirmed why we started building cake cutting machines more than 30 years ago. In addition to making the cakes more professional reducing waste and improving quality, mechanized portioning helps with preventing arthritis in bakers and their employees. Hello. I own [...]
While soft and semi-hard cheeses can be sliced with a knife blade, a wire cutting solution is often better suited for consistency of size, quality of cut, and the safety of the operator. We noticed many bakeries and cheese manufacturers struggling with lower quality bench top cutters and created an [...]
We often think of the automotive industry as a hotbed for robotic technologies and intelligent automation, but in recent years more bakeries have begun using robots for food processing as well. Robots and automated machines first began appearing in packaging and shipping lines of food production facilities, but recently prototype [...]
Bonnie and Clyde, Ben and Jerry, Cheech and Chong...some of the greatest duos of our time still can't hold a candle to one of the most delicious bakery pairs ever...ice cream and cake. While it isn't known who first combined ice cream and cake, we're sure that without this innovation [...]
