Patent ID: 9144243
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: A21D,A23P

Abstract:
1. A method for making a snack product comprising: mixing potato, corn or grain flakes with water and a high water affinity starch using a mixing apparatus configured to tumble, mix and spray water on the flakes and the starch while the flakes remain intact; controlling the mixing step and selecting a quantity of water to form a dough agglomerate comprised of areas of wetted flakes surrounded and held together by wetted starch; controlling the mixing step such that the areas of wetted flakes surrounded and held together by wetted starch increase in size as the mixing step continues; following the mixing step, chopping the dough agglomerate into clumps of dough agglomerate such that the areas of wetted flakes surrounded and held together by wetted starch have a uniform size; compressing the clumps of dough agglomerate using sheeting rolls into a dough sheet comprised of compressed agglomerates; forming the dough sheet into snack pieces; and cooking the snack pieces.