Do you know why the biscuits are the holes?

@ekoytyas (4679)
Indonesia
September 28, 2011 10:14am CST
guys, maybe some of you not so care or interested to know about this. but my friend that work at bakery tell me the reason why biscuits have hole on it. this is the explanation. Holes found on dry biscuits turned out to have a reason, not just a decoration or to facilitate the manufacturing process, as many people expect. Without these holes, will not dry biscuits baked properly. These holes allow steam to escape during the roasting process. This will make the biscuits remained flat, and not expand the hole up so it helps to keep crackers crisp and crunchy. In contrast to the usual sweet biscuits, they do not have a hole to make it a biscuit a little fluffy and feels soft. When the crackers are made, trim the dough to form a flat sheet. These sheets are then run under a mechanism that contains the pins to put the holes in the dough. The position and number of holes varies depending on the size and shape of dry biscuits. Holes are also positioned such that the number of hole not too much and not too close to the hole position. Because if the holes are too close or there's too much, dry biscuit dough will be very dry and hard, because too much steam comes out. Conversely, if the holes are too far away or there's too little, the dough will expand slightly to form small bubbles on the surface of the biscuit. so, do you like biscuits guys??? i like it very much.
2 responses
@WakeUpKitty (8691)
• Netherlands
28 Sep 11
I love biscuits, we have all kinds of them, all kinds of shapes and none of them have a hole in it. Our biscuits dry to so I don't think this can be the reason. To let a biscuit dry has to do with the kind of dough you use, the shape, the way you bake it (once or even twice). The dutch sailers already had biscuits ages ago and no holes in it eiter. So I think this is just an other way of baking biscuits but not the only way. If the dough expand slighty and gets bubbles also this has to do with the kind of dough you use (we only have that if we bake cake). So if you change the recipe you don't need to make holes in your biscuits at all.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
28 Sep 11
Yes.Even without holes, biscuits can be crunchy. It depends on the dough, the way you mix it, the proper measurement and the proper temperature in which you bake them.
@ekoytyas (4679)
• Indonesia
28 Sep 11
maybe it depend on the country that make biscuit it self. on my country most of biscuit have hole.
@Jenith (1381)
• Philippines
28 Sep 11
I love biscuits. I always have it in my bag whenever I go out and even at home. Easy to grasp every time I feel that my stomach is already empty.
@ekoytyas (4679)
• Indonesia
28 Sep 11
that's right, when feel hungry i always eat biscuit at my office.