Various examples are related to making flatbreads such as, e.g., a compact machine for making flatbread in a residential kitchen-type environment or other countertop, tabletop, or space limited applications. In one example, a machine includes a hopper including a mixing chamber configured for bulk addition of raw materials for preparation of flatbread pieces; a mixing assembly configured to blend the raw materials into a flatbread dough mixture; a dough piecing assembly configured to generate a dough piece from an extruded portion of the flatbread dough mixture; a lower platen configured to transfer the pressed flatbread dough piece to a cooking zone on the dough contacting surface for cooking; and a flatbread ejection station configured to remove a cooked flatbread piece from the machine. A second cooking zone can be included to further cook the pressed flatbread dough piece prior to ejection from the machine.

The present invention relates to a food forming drum (1) comprising a multitude of rows (2) of product cavities, each row comprising a multitude of product cavities, wherein the product cavities are provided as one or more at least partially porous members (78) made from a porous material with interconnecting pores. The present invention further relates to a food forming apparatus comprising a food forming drum and a porous member. Additionally, the present invention relates to a movable unit to transport a drum and a method to change a drum or clean the food forming apparatus.

The present invention relates to a device for providing a dough piece on a movable substrate, comprising a substrate, movable in a transport direction for dough pieces with a substrate speed, at least one dough supplier, configured for continuously supplying a dough stream in a supply direction with a supply speed to at least one dispensing opening, arranged above a movable substrate; wherein the plane of the dispensing opening has a directional component perpendicular to the transport direction, a knife, arranged movable with respect to the dispensing opening, with a directional component parallel to the plane of the opening for cutting the dough stream into pieces and a directional component in the supply direction of the dough for moving along with the dough, a controller, for controlling the movement of the knife, and configured to repeatedly move a cutting edge of the knife along the dispensing opening for cutting the dough stream into pieces; and move the knife with a directional component in the supply direction of the dough with at least the dough supply speed, during a predetermined interval directly succeeding a cut.

The invention relates to a device and a method for processing dough, in particular a dough divider, with a pump device and an adjoining tube. There is at least one ventilation device arranged in a region between the pump device and the outlet opening of the tube and can introduce a gaseous medium between the tube inner wall and the outer skin of the dough.

The invention relates to a device and a method for processing dough, in particular a dough divider, with a pump device and an adjoining tube. There is at least one ventilation device arranged in a region between the pump device and the outlet opening of the tube and can introduce a gaseous medium between the tube inner wall and the outer skin of the dough.

A device for longitudinal cutting and/or stamping of dough strips, wherein the tool-receiving shaft thereof is mounted rotatably with both of its ends in bearing cheeks arranged vertically displaceably in recesses of side panels of the device. The bearing cheeks are vertically adjustable by means of an adjustment screw drive that is arranged in each case on the two anchoring boxes of the clamping lever and that adjusts the cutting depth. The clamping lever is equipped with an anchoring mechanism which is arranged inside its connecting strut and reaches into the anchoring box thereof and which has anchoring elements that can be actuated by means of one-man/one-hand grips arranged on the connecting strut and that are able to engage in the side panels. By means of the screw drives arranged on the protrusions of the anchoring boxes, the receiving shaft and the dough-processing tools arranged on the latter can be fixed at a precise height and operating position to give the respectively desired cutting and/or stamping depth.

A device for longitudinal cutting and/or stamping of dough strips, wherein the tool-receiving shaft thereof is mounted rotatably with both of its ends in bearing cheeks arranged vertically displaceably in recesses of side panels of the device. The bearing cheeks are vertically adjustable by means of an adjustment screw drive that is arranged in each case on the two anchoring boxes of the clamping lever and that adjusts the cutting depth. The clamping lever is equipped with an anchoring mechanism which is arranged inside its connecting strut and reaches into the anchoring box thereof and which has anchoring elements that can be actuated by means of one-man/one-hand grips arranged on the connecting strut and that are able to engage in the side panels. By means of the screw drives arranged on the protrusions of the anchoring boxes, the receiving shaft and the dough-processing tools arranged on the latter can be fixed at a precise height and operating position to give the respectively desired cutting and/or stamping depth.

An apparatus and method for automatically removing dough pieces from overhead dough proffer, weighing the dough pieces and reinserting them back in to the process stream. The weight information is analyzed to determine whether it represents the weight of pieces or the empty scale weight, and may be used to provide a signal proportional to the weight of a dough portion, or group of dough potions in order to automatically adjust the rate at which dough is fed to the dividing mechanism, thereby increasing or decreasing the dough piece weights to maintain the desired amount of dough per piece.

An apparatus and method for automatically removing dough pieces from overhead dough proffer, weighing the dough pieces and reinserting them back in to the process stream. The weight information is analyzed to determine whether it represents the weight of pieces or the empty scale weight, and may be used to provide a signal proportional to the weight of a dough portion, or group of dough potions in order to automatically adjust the rate at which dough is fed to the dividing mechanism, thereby increasing or decreasing the dough piece weights to maintain the desired amount of dough per piece.

Provided is a method and device for shaping dough to produce baguettes, long loaves, elongate rolls or the like. Starting with a laminated dough strip being spread out over a conveyor belt the laminated dough strip is cut in the longitudinal direction into a plurality of smaller strips, transversely spacing the smaller strips apart from each other, and cutting them to length by a transverse cut so as to define smaller dough strip portions extending longitudinally over the conveyor belt in transverse rows substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the conveyor belt. At least one transverse row of longitudinal smaller dough strip portions is shaped, driven by an alternating transverse movement of a shaping plate extending transversely to said conveyor belt and located above said row(s).