Continuous mixing equipment from Reading Bakery Systems enables bakeries worldwide to simplify their processes and enhance the overall quality of their final products.
Headquartered in Robesonia, Pennsylvania, Reading Bakery Systems puts more than 120 years of commercial baking experience to use to design and engineer innovative solutions that meet your production needs.
Our primary mixer brand – Exact Mixing – is the global leader in continuous mixing technology and has made us an industry leader in the pretzel, baked snack, sweet goods, pet treat, bread and bun, pizza, tortilla, cookie and cracker industries.
What is Continuous Mixing?
Continuous Mixing is the process of continuously metering ingredients directly into the mixing chamber and as a result, generating a continuous stream of mixed product at the exit of the mixer. The mixing may be done in stages to ensure all ingredients are incorporated properly. The Continuous Mixing process eliminates the problems associated with batch cycles and produces a consistent product all day, every day.
Advantages of Continuous Mixing
Batch mixing has been the mixing method in the bakery industry for many years. However, it can lack precision and lead to variations in dough, impacting the consistency of your finished products.Even if the dough is perfect when it leaves the batch mixer, changes often occur to the dough while it awaits processing.This is known as the batch cycle.Continuous Mixing solves these problems.
The advantages of continuous mixing include:
- Produces large quantities of uniform dough
- Prevents undesirable variations from batch to batch
- Consistently disperses ingredients
- Promotes even dough hydration
- Improves recipe control and repeatability
- Dough production rates from 50 to 10,000 kg/hour
- Eliminates chances of dough contamination
- Eliminates mixer loading errors
- Operation can be automated, reducing labor costs
Exact Continuous Mixer models include:
- Exact MX Continuous Mixer is our most versatile mixer and is suitable for a wide range of products including pizza, cookies, snacks, batters, icings, and pastes.
- Exact EX Continuous Mixer is an excellent choice for low-absorption, stiff, wheat-based doughs, such as crackers, pretzels, bagels, sweet goods and pet treats.
- Exact HDX Continuous Mixer is well-suited to ultra-high absorption doughs for buns, breads, rolls, English muffins or tortillas.
- Exact FX Continuous Mixer is a high-intensity mixer that can be used to produce potato-, corn- and rice-based products and specialty baked snacks, such as fabricated potato chips.
RBS Science & Innovation Center
If you are interested in learning how our commercial bakery equipment and innovative techniques can increase productivity in your operation, we encourage you to conduct confidential trials in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center and duplicate conditions you might encounter in full-scale production.
No one has solved more complex challenges for commercial bakeries than Reading Bakery Systems. To learn more about our continuous mixing equipment, call us at (01) 610-693-5816 or contact us online.