A recent survey suggested that the average Briton can make 10 meals from scratch without having to look at a recipe. The meals were: spaghetti Bolognese, roast dinner, chilli con carne, lasagne, cottage or shepherd’s pie, meat or fish stir fry, beef casserole,...
When working on a product brief it is no longer enough to put one’s personal ideas down on a sheet of blank paper. A more in-depth, rounded approach is required.
As a great believer in giving consumers a mix of culinary pleasure and technology-led products, I am encouraged by the investments being made in the UK’s food manufacturing industry.
As the sophistication of infrared (IR) cameras increases, so their usefulness in food processing as part of automated machine vision applications also grows.
Ghanaian entrepreneurs Lloyd and Adwoa Hagan-Mensah of Raymond's Blanc's BBC2 series The Restaurant have launched London's first Ghanaian cookery school.
Greencore Chilled Sauces and Soups has boosted the efficiency of cooking vessels at its Bristol factory with new electro-pneumatic pressure reducing...
Phyt Foods, founded after a research project with Reading University, is launching baked dough products with fruit and vegetables in August.The firm...
Current industrial practice for the production of mashed potatoes involves energy intensive steps using water as the heat transfer medium to pre-cook...
The new Food Creation Centre at National Starch sees culinary and technology experts joining forces to help the firm offer a more streamlined approach to development. Sarah Britton reports
The Amcor VentValve from Amcor Flexibles has been chosen by the Dutch company Vion for the launch of its frozen ready meals. It uses a valve which is...
Holmesterne Foods has taken on development chef Kevin Hacking to work on a range of new products for the Richmond-based company.Hacking, who used to...
US-based machine vision supplier The Value Engineering Alliance has introduced HueView for the colour analysis of food.HueView can measure colour and...
A wide variety of brat pans, kettles and other specialist cookers are manufactured by BPT Skerman at its site at the former Brooklands racing circuit...
