UK oven designer and manufacturer, Double D Food Engineering, which is now a division of JBT FoodTech, has developed an industrial bar marker for the retail and foodservice sectors, designed to mark bulk quantities of Panini bread in any configuration.
The Revoband Panini Bar Marker, which was developed in response to demand from Double D customers, is able to produce bar marks on the breads in whatever manner customers require. Double D has designed three specific executions to enable bar marks to be imparted straight across the breads, or at an angle. The machine has also been designed to work with continuous ovens and to accept the breads for bar marking no matter how they come off the oven.
Ian Burns, Double D's food processing development engineer, explains: "On a continuous oven, the product is normally positioned horizontally across the band and the Revoband Panini Bar Marker would mark the breads at 45°. However, if this is not the case, we can adjust so that the bar marking can appear in any required way across the bread."
The technology is based on Double D's Revoband Searer/Grill Marker, which it built for the meat and poultry industry, where a bar marking unit produces an authentic branded effect on meat, burger and poultry products.