Rusk is light weight dry piece of biscuit or bread. The main ingredients of rusk are wheat flour, sugar, kimed milk, vegetable oil gluten soya, yeast and water. Rusk Making Plant has everythig that you need to make rusks. A well-maintained rusk making plant machineries has all the required tools. Besides, infrastructure, staff is also required to run the plant successfully.
There are manual and fully-automatic rusk plant. So, you can arrange machinery according to your capacity and suitability. Reasonably, you can run a manual rusk making plant for small scale production. Let’s learn more about Hindchef small scale rusk making plant.
Things required to run a rusk making plant
Here are some important machinery and tools to run a small scale rusk plant:
- Rotary Rack Oven: You need a rotary rack oven to bake ladi (rusk dough). The recommended rotary rack ovens for the small scale rusk making are 44 tray, 88 tray or 132 tray. for large scale production you can consider 198 tray rotary rack oven.
- Spiral mixer: Spiral mixer kneads rusk dough. These are available in different capacities. For the above-mentioned rotary rack ovens, you can use spiral mixers of 30kg, 50kg and 60kg, respectively. Further, Hindchef’s spira mixer comes in two single and double speed. Power load is available in single and three phase, so the customers should purchase according to their power consumption requirement.
- Double Arm mixer: Alternatively, you can replace the above-mentioned spiral mixers with 50 or 90kg double arm mixers.
- Rusk cutter/slicer: You need a single rusk cutter for small scale production.
- Trays and moulds: The number of trays depends on the capacity and production of rotary rack oven. For example, in 44 tray rotary rack oven, there are 44 trays.
- Further, we keep dough in moulds of 12 inches. For Hindchef moulds, you can use 12 inch long and 2 inches thick ladi. We keep ladi in moulds for proofing and baking. Chef keep moulds inside the rotary rack oven and fix the temperature at 22 degree Celsius.
Staff required
- Small Scale business: For scale rusk making, you need three to four staff members. You need to hire one chef, one co-chef, and one or two helpers.
- Large-Scale business: For large scale rusk making, you need more than four staff members.
Rusk making Process
Once you are ready with the machinery and tools mentioned above, you can start making rusk.
Here are the steps of making rusks:
- Use spiral mixer for preparing dough.
- When dough is ready, keep it in moulds for two-hour proofing.
- After proofing, trolley is ready for baking. Keep baking trolley or ladi inside rotary rack oven. The baking consumes 2-2.5 liter per hour.
- Now take out ladi from moulds and keep it for cooling in ladi cooling rack.
- After cooling, cut into pieces and leave it for 15-20 miutes final baking.
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FAQs: Rusk making plant
q1.What is margin in rusk making business?
The businessmen can get a profit margin of 10 to 15%.
q2. How much space do you require to run this bsuiness?
You need 2000-2500 sq. ft. area to run this business.
q3. What is the cost of raw material used in making rusk?
The cost of rusk making raw material is up to INR 80- 85 PER KG.
q4. What are the approval or licenses required to run this business?
You need FSSAI license, GST number and udhyog adhaar. Also, you need fire and pollution NOC.