Como é FEITO o SALGADINHO? #Boravê

Today we came here to Pouso Alegre, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, to show you how snack chips are made. The history of snacks begins in the warehouse and is made with a single ingredient, which is corn. Of course, it's not the whole grain, they will use two different things, the cornmeal, which is a fine powder, looks like cornstarch, and the grit, which is a little thicker, looks like beach sand when you hold it in your hand. . The good thing about gritz is that it will give the chips texture. If it were made only of corn flour, it would look a little like Styrofoam.

The semolina and corn flour arrive in these 25 kg bags and will be placed here in the appropriate proportion. This machine mixes the ingredients so that they are very homogeneous and will transfer them to another. And this is where the secret of the alejadinho will happen. The flours will be mixed with water, and this dough will be heated and compressed. At the end it will pass through special holes that will shape it into snack chips. And a knife goes through everything. At this point, the snack will expand. He was under a lot of pressure and hot and all of a sudden he lets go.

It happens more or less like making popcorn. Let's put some in the waterfall that just came out of the extruder. It's really hot. What does it taste like at this stage, huh? It tastes like corn. It's also stickier, it doesn't break down in your mouth. But if you put a little salt on it, I would eat it. They just dismantled a machine so we can see what it looks like inside. Look how cool, this screw will push the dough. This whole machine is called an extruder, so here at the end there will be some pricked pieces through which the dough comes out, as if they were more or less those syringes that we put dough inside, we squeeze it so that it comes out. in the specific way.

Here at the end there is a knife that rotates and cuts the snack. From this stage onwards, the snack is already fragile, so it is necessary to transport it through these tubes using a fan. Coming here to the oven, there is this cyclone that works as if it were a brake. You can't hit any hard surface because it will be damaged. It then slowly spins until it lands on a conveyor belt and enters an oven. The idea of ​​this oven is to remove all the moisture and also give the snacks crunch. It uses natural gas and the temperature is around 180 to 200 degrees, but the snacks only pass through there for five seconds.

And yes, it is roasted. It's not fried. Here it is much crispier. Completely different. Melt in your mouth. Then you feel the difference the oven makes, it makes an absurd crunch. It tastes less like corn too, it already tastes like something different, which is more toasted. It's time to give snack chips a differentiator by adding aroma. Here comes the salt, the flavor, the smell... At first the aroma is a powder, and it is an industrial secret, we do not know exactly what is there, the amount of each thing, but this is mixed with olein, with oil of palm, to be able to stick to the snack and distribute evenly.

The mixture of the aroma with the snacks will be done inside this machine, which is the flavoring drum, this will rotate very slowly so that the mixture is perfect. Every hour a sample is taken from the production line and brought here to the laboratory to do an analysis, to see if it is crispy, if there is the right amount of ingredients, but a sensory analysis is also done. So Tamiris tries the snack every hour. What do you have to realize when you eat? We see if the salt and crunch are evenly distributed and we also do chloride and moisture analysis.

And when you're outside the factory, do you also eat snack chips? Yes. Then let's try it. It has nothing to do with what I experienced at the beginning. Now it has flavor! But I won't know if it's really crispy, if it has moisture, nothing... Anyone who doesn't work with this can't do it, right? No, You can not. I better get out of here, otherwise I'll eat everything. How many snacks do you have to try at each stage? 3 I see that I am not good for this profession. And finally, here on the other side, we will have a mountain of snack chips ready.

But wait, it doesn't end here. The product still needs to be packaged. You'll go through a scale that works in a really cool way. So, imagine that each flake has a different weight, so how are you going to weigh it accurately? There are 16 cups, the snacks fall into these cups and the machine makes a calculation. You will add the weight of 3 different cups to give the ideal weight in the bag. When you reach that number, you will open three cups while the others fill. Then you will take three more cups, calculate, see what the ideal weight is and let go.

Thus, at all times these little cups are filled and released. It can weigh one hundred bags per minute. The scale has to be super synchronized with this vertical filling. Here a roll releases the packaging that looks like a ribbon, at the same time, the validity, the batch, everything else is printed on the packaging, then it will be assembled into a tube and the snack will fall inside. At the same time, the machine is already sealing the gap between bags and cutting. Many people complain that the packaging is full of air, but this is important to protect the snacks inside.

It works like an airbag. Here, at the end of the production line, a robot will pick up the vacuum packages and separate them into batches of 36. They will put everything inside a box, which will be closed, and then several boxes will form a pallet, which will be transported on trucks. . Look, you can't see it, but there are like 25 people here behind the camera telling me not to try the plain aroma that way, because it's made to put very little in the snack, to eat with corn. Not to take this straight, but I know there are people who are watching this video and haven't given it a thumbs up yet, so don't forget, because I'm going to try this. .

I thought it was worse. It's good. I was imagining something horrible. Another really interesting video that we also made in a food industry is the one in which we show how chewing gum is made.