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In category of small businesses bakery plants are popular for their high demand products and good returns on the investment .Bread are of various types such as Sandwhich bread , white bread , whole wheat bread , brown bread ,kaboos , toast bread , roti ,naan etc . Bread s have very short shelf life of three to four days .In some country breads are major staple food for the populations .Bread plants are of 25000 loaves to 100000 loaves per day capacities .Manpower required for such plant varies from 8-16.Different shapes and sizes are available for breads .Different flavours are available in the market.
Bread Plants have following processes
Mixing- ingredients
Mixing-dough
Dough dividing
Rounding up
Prooving
Moulding
Final Prooving
Baking
Depanning
Packing
Raw material used in bread manufacturing are following
Flour ,Fat ,sugar ,salt ,yeast,gms powder ,sodium stearoyl lactilate,smp solution,bread improvers,ascorbic acid,potassium bromate,calcium propionate,acetic acid and other additives.
Plant and machinery required for bread plant
Spiral Mixers , silos , sifters , conveyors ,bowls,dividers,hander up , interproover , moulder , final proovers , baking ovens , depanners , cooling racks , cooling tunnels ,slicers and sealers and plastic trays .
Utilities like chilling plants , air compressors , boilers and cold storage rooms are required for different applications .
Bread process requires followings timings to complete the process
1. mixing- 5-10 minutes
2. travel from mixer to final proover- 15 min
3. final prooving - 75min
4.baking -30min
5.cooling - 60-90min
6. packing -15min
Bread once packed are stacked into plastic trays which are then loaded in vans for distribution in morning .These are then collected in evening and again loaded .
Defective breads are replaced with fresh ones
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