Texture Analyzers, Texture Analysis, and Texture Measurement Instruments
Dough Inflation System
Texture Technologies offers the bread, cereal and commercial bakery industries a dough inflation attachment that complements the Stable Micro Systems' family of texture analysis instruments, providing accurate and reproducible texture and dough-based product testing results.
The D/R Dough Inflation System inflates a sheet of dough by volume displacement of air using a piston which is driven by a Stable Micro Systems' TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzer. Pressure during inflation is measured by a pressure transducer and the volume of the inflating dough sheet is calculated from the displacement of the piston. The D/R Dough Inflation System enables the rheological properties of both dough and gluten to be measured during biaxial stretching, which is the relevant deformation in the cell wall material surrounding an expanding gas bubble during proof and baking. The system together with dedicated software, combines ease of use with automatic data collection and rapid project based data analysis.
The procedure requires minimum handling of the dough when preparing samples - there is no contact of the sample when transferring to the D/R Dough Inflation System. This sophisticated system is a very comprehensive test tool for research, Q/C, production or process monitoring. The test, display of the result and calculation of index values are fully automatic.
Tools are provided to make measurements, such as drum distance, pressure ratios, area calculations, volume changes and deformation energy between two points as well as simple spot values. Plus, The Exponent software has built in macro and spreadsheet facilities to aid automated data collection and analysis. The spreadsheets support a range of mathematical functions that enable results to be derived from the basic data. Charts are easily created to conveniently present spreadsheet results
Contact your regional Texture Technologies representative to ask any questions or learn more about the Dough Inflation System at Stable Micro Systems.