Digi Bites
Suite 2: Produce Right - industrial food production
Digi Bites 2 investigates modern food production methods, particularly highlighting computer control systems, assembly line processes and food safety and quality issues.
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Homemade Cumberland pie
Duration: 5mins 9s
This Digi Bite demonstrates how a Cumberland Pie is prepared in a domestic kitchen. Although on a much larger scale, food manufacturers use big equipment in a similar way to how we we use cooking utensils in the home. The recipe is also very similar to the processes of industrial production.
Suitable for KS4 and 5 Food based courses.
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Cumberland pie
Duration: 2mins 34s
Introducing ingredients of a Cumberland Pie: meat fill with potato topping. Carrots are the distinctive ingredient from other similar products. Seasoning, salt and an industrial thickening agent are added.
Suitable for KS4 and 5 Food based courses.
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Potato cleaning, washing and sorting
Duration: 3min 07s
Removal of foreign objects (stones), rotary washing (removes dirt and flaky skins), steam (removes 90% of skin), Carborundum peeling process (abrasive peeler) and control of colour (video camera detection).
Suitable for KS4 and 5 Food based courses.
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Starch washing and cooking
Duration: 1mins 11s
Removal of starch residue on potato by spraying with jets of water and steam cooking in blancher cooker.
Suitable for KS4 and KS5
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Computer controlled kettles
Duration: 1mins 35s
Computer controlled cooking process of meat fill. Ensures quality control, what happens and when it happens and logs the addition of each ingredient/component. Fail safe system which will stop the process.
Suitable for KS4 and KS5
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Cooling kettles
Duration: 1mins 17s
Meat fill pumped from cooking kettles (low risk area) into vacuum cooler (high risk area). Cools meat fill down to 5 °C in 40 minutes.
Suitable for KS4 and KS5
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Packaging and filling Cumberland Pies
Duration: 2mins 18s
Microbiological count controlled as meat fill deposited into foil trays. Mash potato and cheesy crumb topping piped by computer control. Pies pass through travelling grill and onto spiral freezer before being packaged, weighed and metal detected on assembly line.
Suitable for KS4 and KS5 food based courses
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