Steamed baked products from the Netherlands The Trade Factory Bakery in the Netherlands specializes in producing bapao. These illed, steamed bread rolls are popular with young consumers. The baked products can be bought in the food retail, either fresh in a chiller display or as a frozen product. ++ Three Rheon plants put the various illings into the dough In Asia, the subject of steamed baked goods brings to mind jiaozi, baozi, gyōza or mandu. These filled, steamed dumplings are very popular. In China there are said to be more than 40 jiaozi, also called Chinese dumplings, differing in size, shape, filling, wrapping type and cooking methods. The dough for gyōza, Japanese dumplings, is somewhat thinner compared to jiaozi/baozi. The crescent-shaped, baked dumplings are often served as a side-dish. However, there are also steamed and fried variants. The version from Korea is called mandu. It involves a steamed product served with or without filling. These Asian dough foods resemble Eastern European pelmeni, which are also boiled or steamed. Dumplings are another European product that can also be steamed or boiled. In Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and the Czech Republic there are dumplings as a side-dish, main dish or even as dessert and for adding to soups. www.bakingbiscuit.com 04/2016 There are also bigger variants of steamed baked goods, both in Asia and in Europe. Germknödel, for example, a way of preparing yeast dumplings, are very popular in Austrian and Bavarian cuisine. Here again there are different variants, e.g. with plum or blueberry filling (South Bohemia/regions in the Czech Republic). Butter is poured over the warm germknödel, or they are served with a vanilla custard sauce. The dishes can also be sprinkled with ground poppy and icing sugar. In China, hom bao are described as steamed buns. These are sold filled with sweet red bean paste, for example, but savory fillings are also possible. Bapao for the Netherlands The Trade Factory Bakery B.V., CX IJmuiden, the Netherlands, has found a special niche: the company produces Bapao, a kind of steamed bun with various fillings. However, there is no particularly large Asian community in t

Netherlands that would create a demand for such products. The baked goods are bought especially by young consumers who want to eat a snack quickly and easily. Trade Factory manager Erwin Koopstra explains that this is why Bapao can be bought in many supermarkets as frozen products or as fresh goods. into a pre-portioner. Conveyor belts then take the yeast dough into one of the three Rheon Corncopia KN400 encrusting machines. The Rheon has two hoppers. The dough for the steamed buns goes into one, and the filling goes into the other. Manager Erwin Koopstra says “For example, this can be chicken,...

++ The illed dough pieces are deposited onto trays. Input and removal take place automatically. The entire project was designed by the Kortlever company The steam oven The filled dough pieces now leave the Rheon plants and are aligned. A conveyor belt carries the dough pieces forward to the deposition station, where a station provides prepared trays covered with baking paper. A tray can accommodate thirty dough pieces each weighing 120 grams. The full trays now pass automatically into a rack trolley. One of the two production staff then pushes the fully filled racks into the final proof. This...