Baked Snacks Home › Products › Baked SnacksBaked Snacks Typical Production Line Scroll Left Scroll Right High Speed MixerHigh Speed MixerDough is mixed with a unique, shafless mixing blade that ensures good dispersion of ingredients. Mixed dough is automatically discharged into a dough feed system or tub. In many facilities, the mixer is located on the floor above the main line: mixed dough is discharged into the dough feed through a floor chute Read More ✕ Laminator LaminatorA sheeter and two gauge rolls produce a continuous dough sheet that is cut and then laid down on a continuously moving conveyor feeding the first gauge roll. Read More ✕ TruClean™ Gauge RollsTruClean™ Gauge RollsAchieve and maintain the desired thickness of a sheet of dough. Read More ✕ TruClean™ Rotary CutterTruClean™ Rotary CutterA pair of engraved rolls emboss then cut dough pieces from a continuous sheet. Read More ✕ Oven OvenDirect Gas Fired Oven: radiation heating plus optional turbulence TruBake™ Oven: convection heating Hybrid Oven: combines the most appropriate heat transfer method Read More ✕ The conventional baked snack production process uses the sheet and cut process plus baking technology adapted from the cracker industry to offer options including shaped, savoury, crisp, oyster and pita snacks. Meeting demand for healthier foodsAs an alternative to higher fat frying, baking maximizes the flavour and colour potential of low-fat ingredients, while the forming process offers ample opportunity to create appealing textures, plus attractive shapes and patterns. Opportunities for new ideasThe use of local and/or sustainable ingredients such as lentil, pea, and haricot or faba beans rather than the customary wheat or corn creates products with new textures, tastes and colours. High-protein snacks meet a variety of needs, including balancing diet, satiety and weight loss.A unique production processA standard Baker Perkins extrusion system can be extended to create a range of innovative, high value sheeted baked snacks by adding a sheeting die and rotary cutter to the line. The die produces a very wide, thin sheet of dough, which is rotary cut before being baked and flavoured. Suggested Product Opportunities Baked Crisp Snacks Baked Snack Crackers Extruded Sheeted Snacks Oyster Crackers Pita Snacks Savoury Cracker Snacks Shaped SnacksRequired Equipment High Speed Mixer TruClean Laminators Truclean Gauge Rolls Truclean Rotary Cutter Trubake Oven