Moguls are great as long as you get a good one and are doing large amounts of gummies. I have customer that want 6-12k pieces of 10 different flavors and stuff like that it wouldn’t be feasible to do that on a mogul
But yea if you’re trying to do 120k+ of a single sku they’re hard to beat especially because the only labor is really doing the cooking and sugaring after
You can get creative with your setup and feed that same back end of the mogul with as much as you’d be making on the truffly depositor too… it’s obviously just expensive on the mold side if you want to do a ton of different shapes and time consuming changing them out / recalibrating for different sizes
The cleaning is what I always wondered about
I’m sure everything before the injectors would clean easy it’s just the molds I’ve always wondered about
I almost feel like you’d need 2 sets of molds to really be able to have minimal down time on a mogul I feel like getting those molds clean would be a bitch but I could be wrong
The depositor I just put really hot water in and wipe the sides a little and turn on the over head stirrer and it dissolves everything in the hopper and in the depositor itself
Idk how well that would work on a mogul
We have steam bars all along the line and in the tunnel for after the run is over, the molds / belt keep going around and are CIP. Got 3 basin sinks right next to the depositor for pulling the molds off and disassembling for ultrasonic cleaning on the pins etc. We do have a few sets of molds though as redundancy.
Sream bars are enough to get everything off the molds for the next batch? I figured you gotta be using some kind of mold release which would take more then steam to clean
since we’re already OT, has anyone tried flour gelatinization/licorice?
I’d like to make something like rips sour licorice belts
There’s brushes and steam on the automated side, and we wipe down as they go with microfiber cloth as a finishing touch… the release agent is actually pretty thin and real easy to clean off. Nothing ends up outside of the depositing zone of the molds on a good day so there’s not a ton of mess to speak of that would require pulling them off the track and deep cleaning after each run.
We disassemble and run the parts through our ultrasonic console because the pins start to get a little gummed up after awhile
We got them for LESS THAN $50.00 PER MAT… do you want to know what THEY WANTED.? lol…Im guessinG, THEY BOTH SHOULD BE ASHAMED…