Peanut Buuter Filled Pretzels
April 19, 2005 8:19 AM   Subscribe

Could someone please explain to me the factory process of making peanut butter filled pretzels?
posted by askmatrix to Food & Drink (7 answers total)
 
They make the outer pretzel shell, and then fill it with peanut butter with an apparatus that looks like a big needle, the needle pokes through the shell, fills it, and moves on to the next. If you look closely they will all show where the needle has poked through to fill it up.
posted by riffola at 8:30 AM on April 19, 2005


If you can find this video at a library - it might help you:

How to Create a Junk Food
Julia Child introduces NOVA's behind-the-scenes exploration of two new snacks in the making. Originally broadcast on the television program Nova, 1988. 58 min. Video/C 1244
posted by mildred-pitt at 8:41 AM on April 19, 2005


Response by poster: Is it injected while it is soft and then cut and fried?
posted by askmatrix at 8:54 AM on April 19, 2005


Extruder Alert!
posted by dfowler at 9:03 AM on April 19, 2005


Best answer: I think most of these kinds of snacks are made by co-extrusion in which the outer bread and inner coaxial filling are extruded simultaneously. The extrusion is chopped to length and pinched to seal in the filling and then baked or fried to cook the outer bread layer.
posted by caddis at 9:07 AM on April 19, 2005


dfowler, you beat me to it, and included links.
posted by caddis at 9:08 AM on April 19, 2005


Actually, I like your explanation better than my links, caddis. Great answer.
posted by dfowler at 10:43 AM on April 19, 2005


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