A few days ago, a little cute asked me in the background how to make "milk dates" ….. What are milk dates? I have never heard of them … Then I heard a lot of news about milk dates, and even Xiaojiang took photos to show me, saying that they were very popular snacks recently!
Let’s take a cross-sectional view to show that "milk jujube" is to add almonds after removing the core of jujube, and then wrap a layer of small snacks like milk powder … Although I still stay in the era of jujube with walnuts, it doesn’t prevent me from imagining how delicious this thing is-the soft and sweet jujube, the crispy and delicious nuts, the outer layer of nougat and the rich milk fragrance are simply the superposition of multiple delicacies.
Yesterday, a cute girl who didn’t want to be named summed up the production process of milk dates. Although it was mainly manual processing, I interspersed some machine automation links ~ Come on, let’s start the introduction!
Jujube core removal
The first step in making milk dates is to remove the core. After the cleaned red dates are dried, they can be pitted in batches. Some factories manually use straws, chopsticks and other tools to remove the core, but the speed is not fast, and it is easy to poke yourself.
When the above coring tool is directly pressed down, the plum core is stabbed down. At this moment, the plum meat is still clamped on the pliers to squeeze the tool. After the whole linkage, as soon as it is coordinated, the stone is removed very quickly.
I also found two kinds of nuclear removal machines on 1688. In this seeder, the right press is to remove the core, and the left press is to press the red dates. Only one red jujube core can be removed at a time, so the speed is not very fast. ……
This machine, as shown below, is very similar to the coring machine written before. As soon as the ring cutter falls, it can cut out all the pieces of red dates … The efficiency is more than an order of magnitude higher!
And if you want to make "jujube with walnuts", you just need to change the shape of the cutting knife. As shown in the figure below, let the cross section of the knife be concave into the shape of -O, and cut the stone from top to bottom, so that you can cut the jujube into an opening where walnuts can be placed.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with doing it by hand. I saw a denucleation artifact on Taobao, and I just need to buy one for my mother ….. Put the red dates in, press them gently, and the nuclei can be pressed out, and the function can be easily realized ~
Stuffed almonds
Then put a badamu in the middle of the jujube. This step is basically manual. I searched for dates and walnuts, and it is also manual operation … I guess this step is not easy for machinery. After all, it is more troublesome to set up almonds-find the right direction-and successfully insert them. I feel that it is very expensive to make a machine to replace labor, and the effect is hard to say.
There is a little cute person who completely ignores the almond in Neisai and makes such extravagant behavior. ……
Sugar boiling link
The next step is to start wrapping the jujube in a milk shell. Melt the butter, then add the cotton candy and fry until it melts, add the milk powder and continue to stir evenly ~
Manual stirring
After stirring into a big ball, pour it on the red dates, stir quickly and wrap it with marshmallows as evenly as possible.
Machine stirring
Cotton candy is very sticky after melting, and it is not easy to stir when it is cold, so the labor intensity of this step of stirring is relatively large. If you use the sugar-boiling stirring pot to complete this link, you can save a lot of effort, first of all, melt butter ~
Then put the cotton candy in and continue to heat it.
Add milk powder and stir well, then pour in dried red dates. After the machine replaces the manual work, the raw materials will be mixed more easily, and the jujube will taste better after it is evenly wrapped in a coat.
To tell you the truth, when I saw this step, my mouth began to water … (﹃)
Kneading molding
While it’s hot, pull the milk jujube out of this mass, rub it to remove the wiredrawing, and then throw it into the basin filled with milk powder. ……
Wrap a layer of milk powder to prevent adhesion, and then spread the milk dates into plates to let the excess milk powder leak from the sieve hole.
Let’s look at the past from the perspective of a big scene. This is the artificial sugar boiling-stirring-jujube kneading-powder coating, a one-stop assembly line ~
Individually packaged
After the finished milk dates pass the quality inspection, they can be sent to the packaging ~ First, they slowly leak down through this big turntable.
Then line up neatly and send them to do independent packaging ~ look at the plastic film on the right. After each milk jujube goes in, it will be plastic-sealed.
After you collect the plastic-packed granules, you can send them to supermarkets and grocery stores, waiting for you to buy them ~
Wait! Cast has something to say. ……
A few days ago, the news read that a batch of imported whey powder, a raw material of milk dates from a company in Zaozhuang, was positive for some nucleic acids. Then, for a while, Naizao became the same as cherries, and it was on the news every day, from being hot to being shunned … But I read the follow-up report that experts in related fields were invited to speak out, saying that the virus load was very low and the nucleic acid tests of relevant employees and their families were negative, so I don’t have to worry … …
That ….. What made me stunned for three seconds was that although this batch of milk dates was produced in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, the raw material of dates was Xinjiang, not Zaozhuang ….. Zaozhuang actually didn’t produce dates, which was my stereotype … In other words, is there such a similar name in everyone’s hometown … …
Proofreading: Cast+Jiang Xiaosang
Screenshot: Yang Ge
