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AMK10 Chocolate tempering equipment
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Title | AMK10 Chocolate tempering equipment |
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Acronym | Chocolate tempering equipment |
Key words | Chocolate, tempering, pre-crystallisation, process |
Latest version | 2013/04/16 |
Manufacturer | Aasted-Mikroverk |
Model | AMK10 |
Description | The equipment is used to temper or pre-crystallize chocolate at lab-scale. Tempering means creating fat crystal seeds in molten chocolate from which fat crystals will grow during solidification. Creating right sort and amount of seeds in chocolate during tempering is of outmost importance in order to avoid quality defects during storage such as fat bloom –a greyish haze on the products surface. The AMK10 uses a multi-step shear and temperature treatment to create correct fat crystal seeds. Thus, first the chocolate is under-cooled to induce formation of the seeds followed by re-heating in order to melt out unstable seeds In order to do this, the AMK 10 has three different temperature zones which can be adjusted separately to achieve optimal temper of chocolate.
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Weblink | http://www.sp.se/en/units/fb/Sidor/default.aspx |
Possibilities and limits | Batchwise production. Up to 8 kilos of chocolate at the time can be processed. |
Application | |
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Application fields | Chocolate (dark, milk, white) and pure fat systems to be crystallized in a controlled manner. |
Application examples | Dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate |
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Accessibility & Support Service | |
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Access conditions | |
Access conditions further comments | The equipment is located at SP in Gothenburg and is operated by trained SP personnel |
Languages | English, Swedish |
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Training | |
Training further comments | No training necessary as the equipment is only available as service |
Technical help | analytical specific staff is dedicated to this infrastructure |
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Contact data | |
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Contact person | Lina Svanberg |
Institute/company | SP |
Country | Sweden |
Address | Box 5401, 40229 Gothenburg |