If you're like me, then you've often wondered how in the heck they make a Triscuit. It's much more complicated than your everyday cracker. It has a formed shaped with ridges on both sides, but more than that the individual "fibers" are striated parallel to each other.
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Well today I found a little surprise at the bottom of my Triscuit bag. One of the Triscuits was not properly formed and there was an air pocket between the two halves. When I separated it I noticed there was a uniform mesh on each half. I hypothesized that this orthogonal mesh was pre-made out of soy or some other organic material. It is this mesh that is used as a backing for the fibers. The fibers are laid uni-directionaly on the mesh and then it is formed and baked. Check out the mesh...
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Well, that is my guess at it anyway. Maybe the TV shows "How It's Made" or "Unwrapped" will feature it one day. Yes, I am bored...epidural tomorrow!!
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Well today I found a little surprise at the bottom of my Triscuit bag. One of the Triscuits was not properly formed and there was an air pocket between the two halves. When I separated it I noticed there was a uniform mesh on each half. I hypothesized that this orthogonal mesh was pre-made out of soy or some other organic material. It is this mesh that is used as a backing for the fibers. The fibers are laid uni-directionaly on the mesh and then it is formed and baked. Check out the mesh....jpg)
Well, that is my guess at it anyway. Maybe the TV shows "How It's Made" or "Unwrapped" will feature it one day. Yes, I am bored...epidural tomorrow!!
Nabisco makes its Triscuits in much the same way it makes its shredded wheat. (Both were invented in the 1890's by Henry Perky, a middle-aged lawyer in Denver.) Wheat is slightly softened with water and steam so that it can go through a shredder and come out looking like ''fine spaghetti,'' according to a company spokeswoman, Caroline Fee.
ReplyDeleteFor shredded wheat, the strands are piled up, all strands running in the same direction, and then put through a cutter that forms the biscuits. To make Triscuits, the wheat is piled first in one direction and then in another. ''They're not woven,'' Ms. Fee said firmly.