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Understanding Food Production

Calculating the time it takes for a pie to cook – Fourier’s law

Cooking a pie in the oven is always a delicate balancing act. You don’t want the pie to dry out and become tough. But under cooking is probably worse, with raw liquid filling being left in the pie. Imagine how...

October 26, 2019

7 min read

Understanding Food Production

Calculating the temperature of food cooling down

How cold does your freezer need to be for freezing that piece of fish in less than 2 minutes?How fast does your cooling water need to flow to keep a pipe full of soup at temperature? If you’re designing food...

October 26, 2019

9 min read

How Food is Made

How maple syrup is made – visiting Maple Row Sugarhouse

It’s still a mostly brown and grey world, with just a light dusting of snow covering the fields and forests. The grass hasn’t started to grow yet, the trees haven’t yet budded and people only come...

May 27, 2019

16 min read

Food Physics Basics

The science of distilling liquors

We know how to make spirits (we discussed that here), and we know that to make spirits (or liquors) you need to distill fermented grains. Distillation isn’t just used in spirits production though. It is one of any...

March 4, 2019

6 min read

Understanding Food Production

Food Science in large scale catering – Netflix’ Mega Food

Making food in a factory and making food at home are two very different and unique disciplines. The advantage of making food at home is that you’ll only do it for a few people. Food made in a factory is for a lot...

June 30, 2018

8 min read

Food Packaging Science

The basics of food labels

Labels on food generally have two very important functions: 1) make the product look appealing and make people want to buy it and 2) tell the (legal) details of your food. You both want to make sure people know what...

May 20, 2018

9 min read

How Food is Made

Batch vs Continuous – Scaling up a food production process

When scaling up your production process you’ve got to cover a lot different topics: how to transform your kitchen recipe into one suitable for a small factory/food business, what to consider when scaling up the...

May 20, 2018

7 min read

Food Packaging Science

Choosing appropriate packaging – Scaling up food production

Dreaming of scaling up your grandmother’s cupcake recipe? Or are you running a food production company and looking into a new product? Chances are that you will have to scale up your recipe or any new product...

May 20, 2018

7 min read

How Food is Made

Shelf life determination – Scaling up food production

How long do your home made muffins remain fresh? When does the home made sausage start to spoil? Or how long can you store that cheese? When you make products at home you tend to use common sense and experience for...

May 21, 2018

9 min read

How Food is Made

How to scale up a food production process?

Chemical engineers love scaling up, but cooks might not have such a scale up itch in them though. Coming up with recipes and great products might be more their cup of tea. However, if you’d like to sell and market...

May 20, 2018

8 min read

Tag - scaling up

Calculating the time it takes for a pie to cook – Fourier’s law

Calculating the temperature of food cooling down

How maple syrup is made – visiting Maple Row Sugarhouse

The science of distilling liquors

Food Science in large scale catering – Netflix’ Mega Food

The basics of food labels

Batch vs Continuous – Scaling up a food production process

Choosing appropriate packaging – Scaling up food production

Shelf life determination – Scaling up food production

How to scale up a food production process?

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