General Mills, Inc.
Apparatus and Method for Producing Scored Dough Pieces

Abstract:

Scored dough pieces are produced by forming a dough piece, freezing the dough piece to produce a frozen dough piece and scoring the frozen dough piece to produce a scored dough piece having at least one score. The frozen dough piece can be scored with a saw blade, water knife or laser. In addition, a coating or treatment can be applied to the at least one score of the scored dough piece.