Drying usualy takes atleast 3 days? How can someone dry faster? They set in 30min or so.
Iv seen them freeze dried before but they blow up like a cheeto lol
Id definately take tips if someone can dry faster. I use a dehumidifier and still takes me 3 days min
Latenite at lab another 2am nite . in case im rambling 
You’re right, I meant setting.
That’ll depend on your formula, cooking SOP and environment you are drying in.
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Usually the first molds made are ready to demould by the time the last ones are made and can be demoulded in that order. Atleast my mo.
Iv seen ppl dry in the molds but i prefer to demould and let dry. All so labor intensive
I think it’s all about the recipe. We used to dry for several days, now our gummies dry for the length of time it takes to get all batches poured and popped and crammed into packaging.
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Impressive.
I do a geletin based recipe. I based mine off diamond delight edibles youtube vid and made it better with a few tweeks giving longer shelf life
I based mine off of @MillerliteRN but tweaked it a bit and added pectin. We haven’t had any issues with shelf stability, but our products move so fast that it’s not an issue anyhow.
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Do you know what the relative humidity % is in your cure room?
You’re doing it right. You want them to “set” in the molds i.e. dry enough that they can be efficiently demolded, but you always want your gummies to do the bulk of their “cure” outside of the molds. This allows for air access from all sides, which is why people use perforated trays, and results in more even desiccation.
We sell a semi-auto free standing depositor, but its more of an investment than a tabletop setup (significantly higher output too). @MillerliteRN is right that you can generally wipe the floor with any tabletop depositor using flood & scrape tech that’s properly dialed in. Forces you to understand your recipe too, which is a good thing. Posting some F&S screenshots from various client projects for some higher volume inspo. If anyone, wants to see an actual video, DM and I’ll text it to you.
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I wish I could view that video… my device want play it…
I’m 1000000000000% sure I could kill any desktop machine…
I still have a few kinks to work out and they have nothing to do with the recipe. I need a few items custom made.
My bottleneck is the batter… I need to mix 5-10k gummies at a time…
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Word. What about the batter/slurry is holding you back? Are you saying you need a bigger pot/kettle?
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So the pour and scrape method uses special molds? Who carries those molds?
That looks easier than the squeze bottle method
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Some molds dont work with some recipes… bottom line
Referring to pour and scrape
@mgucci and @darkcitymolds both offer these molds
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The best thing for flood & scrape is flat bottomed “slab” style platinum molds with hard corners to prevent loss, ideally using a geometry that is tightly tessellated to cut down on the dead space between cavities - slurry can lose its heat to these areas. Our 192 and 234 piece square molds are two of the most popular in the industry for flood and scrape, but all of our molds can technically be flooded (coins, gumdrops, etc). @MillerliteRN is right though that some geometries are just not as conducive.
Also, the denser the material, the firmer it is, which contributes to the mold supplying better counter pressure against the scraper, which prevents mold deformation and cuts down on “skinning,” the thin layer of buildup over the top of the molds that can counteract easy demolding.
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Strictly the process of getting the mixture into the mold, you are probably right. pour and scrape is probably fastest.
entire production start to finish, I promise you 1000/hr ain’t the fastest out there.
But for your batter bottleneck - Do multiple batches/pots and stagger their start times on your burner so once you are finished pouring/scraping the first pot, the second one is ready to come off.
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get a bakery dough proofing cabinet. it’s basically like a rolling low temp convection oven that takes sheet pans.
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Yep. Staggering the cook is key, You can theoretically roll continuously as long as you have empty molds to fill. No machine to break down, clean, and reset. Just pots.
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This is what we do. Works well. 1,300 gummies / pot.
What did you change about the recipe?
Dry / set / cure time is our only issue left to resolve. Our environment is good.
Yesterday we started waiting until 78 brix to add citric & pour (up from 74). Hoping that does it. PH is already good.
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