The fast pace of modern life, which is constantly growing year by year, requires the maximum return of physical and moral strength from humanity. It’s hard to stay afloat while sitting at home on a soft sofa. So people have to rush, run and hurry, without looking around and sometimes not having time to have lunch.
Snacks - A Popular Fast Food
An active lifestyle has created a need for products that you can eat on the go without spending a lot of time on it. So snacks appeared and quickly gained popularity (from the English. Snak - a light snack). They are small dry food, packaged in small portions in convenient packaging.
Among the fast food products were potato chips, cereal flakes, various nuts, salted fish, dried fruits and, of course, crackers. This snack product was not a big discovery for the Russian consumer. He simply moved from domestic kitchens to a civilized market, where he quickly gained popularity and love of a large number of fans.
Making snack crackers is a profitable business
The technology for the production of crackers is not very complex and provides a high economic effect. The raw material for the production of snacks is bread baked from wheat or rye flour. Depending on the initial product, the production of one hundred grams of ready-made crackers will require about one hundred and forty grams of bread, some spices and vegetable oil. Even for an uninitiated person, it is quite obvious that the benefit from the production and sale of crackers is quite large.
Equipment for the production of crackers affordable for any budding entrepreneur. Starting capital of one hundred thousand dollars and a production space of up to one hundred square meters will be sufficient for successful work. It is very important that the company has a cracker production technologist. The quality and taste of the products largely depend on their experience and skill level.
Having established regular sales of goods, constantly supporting an aggressive advertising campaign, you can return the spent money in six months.
Customer focus
Any bakery is faced with a constant problem - the need to process unsold or low-quality products. Equipment for the production of crackers is the best way out of the situation. The basis for the production of a popular product is ready-made bread. Dry baked goods are best suited for this purpose.
The disadvantage of large-scale production of popular products is the complexity of improving the process. Tastes of consumers are very variable, and therefore, to achieve success, manufacturers need to constantly focus on changes in taste preferences.
Large enterprises are not very agile in operational changes in production orientation. Regular study of demand and quick response to new trends in food fashion are possible for small mobile enterprises.
The line for the production of crackers consists of a machine for slicing bread, an oven for drying semi-finished products, equipment for introducing food and taste additives and a packaging machine.
Process steps
To cut blanks in the form of cubes or small sticks, a bread slicer is used for the production of crackers.By repeatedly passing bread slices through knives, it is possible to obtain semi-finished products of the desired shape and size.
Heat treatment of crackers is carried out in frying ovens, maintaining the temperature within two hundred degrees.
So that snacks get a specific taste and smell, they must be processed with food additives. In order to better fix spices on semi-finished products, the surface of the bread is first sprayed with vegetable oil. If the production is small-scale, then the aromatization process can be carried out manually. In spacious containers, with the help of special blades, crackers are mixed to uniformly envelop flavorings.
For large volumes, a special coating machine is used for the production of crackers. It is a deep, spacious container or drum in which, with the help of wide blades, mixing of bread snacks is performed.
Finished products cool to room temperature, and then sent to the packaging machine.
What are crackers
By type of flour, snacks are:
- light - wheat;
- dark - wheat-rye;
- black - from Borodino bread.
The rapidly growing interest in crackers required manufacturers to constantly search for fresh ideas and develop new recipes. The product range is due to the variety of flavors. Here, the search for food preferences and interests is unlimited. Today crackers with the taste of meat products, fish, caviar, cheese, sour cream, vegetables, mushrooms, herbs, fruits are in great demand among consumers. Snacks can be salted or sweet.
Who buys crackers
Foamy drink lovers respect salty snacks very much. The production of crackers for beer required the development of a separate line of a popular product aimed at people spending free time on vacation with family and friends.
Consumers of snacks are equally women and men of different age categories. But fast food is most in demand among young and active people.
