Explore the complete range of Reading Bakery Systems industrial mixing equipment and find out what the advantages are of continuous mixing over batch mixing. We can help you reduce labor, cut costs, and produce consistent, high-quality products.
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) is a long-time global leader in the snack food industry. We serve the biscuit, cookie, cracker, pretzel, potato chip, bread and bun, sweet goods, and pet treat industries. Our range of innovative equipment, expertise, pioneering R&D, and legendary customer service are unrivaled in the industry.
Continuous Mixing vs Batch Mixing
Batch mixing is not precise and can lead to dough variations. Even if the dough is perfect when it leaves the batch mixer, changes often occur to the dough while it waits to be processed. This is called the batch cycle, and the variations can negatively affect the consistency of your finished products.
Continuous Mixing solves these problems by:
- Preventing undesirable variations from batch to batch
- Consistently dispersing ingredients
- Promoting even dough hydration
- Producing consistent finished weight, size and texture
- Producing large quantities of uniform dough
- Improving recipe control and repeatability
- Offering dough production rates of 50 to 10,000 kg/hour
- Eliminating chances of dough contamination
- Eliminating mixer loading errors
- Automating the process to use less labor and energy than batch mixing
- Achieving verifiable kill temperatures for non-baked products
Exact Continuous Mixers
Exact Mixing offers the most advanced continuous mixing technologies available today, including
The Exact EX Continuous Mixer is ideal for pretzels, crackers, pie crusts, pizza, pet treats and a variety of other wheat-based products. It uniformly mixes products with a variety of dough moisture levels. This mixer offers dough production rates from 100 to 10,000 kg/hour.
The Exact FX Continuous Mixeris ideal for hydroscopic powders such as potato flakes used to make fabricated potato chips or any other low moisture mixtures. It evenly distributes small amounts of moisture into large amounts of powder using a specialized liquid injection system and a revolutionary mixer shaft design.
The Exact HDX or High Development Continuous Mixer is ideal for ultra-high absorption doughs, such as buns, breads, English muffins and similar products. It is designed to first mix all ingredients into a uniform mass with a twin screw mixer and, in a separate section, knead the dough to the proper development level with a single screw mixer, all at low temperatures.
Science & Innovation Center
If you are interested in which equipment may be right for your products, consider working with our team in the Reading Bakery Systems Science & Innovation Center.
The fully equipped and licensed research and development facility features pilot versions of all types of Exact Mixers along with an automated bulk handling system, a horizontal dry blender, gravimetric dry feeders and mass flow liquid systems, as well as complete processing lines capable of producing a wide assortment of snack food products.
Collaborate discreetly with us to:
- Develop new processes
- Validate new ingredients
- Conduct shelf-life studies
- Test new machinery and processing techniques
- Research profitable innovations in mixing, forming, baking and drying
- Produce market samples for evaluation and testing
To learn more about what advantages you can expect from Continuous Mixing over batch mixing, contact Reading Bakery Systems today at (01) 610-693-5816 or contact us online.