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And how do they make it? Rice crispies are an example of a puffed grain cereal, and the three puffed grains that you commonly see in the cereal aisle are rice, sweet, and corn. There are also a lot of puffed dose cereals in the United States. You see tricks kicks, cheerios, cocoa puffs, and so on. Puffing is a very common process in the breakfast cereal industry. In the case of a rice crispy, you pop the rice in a way
similar to the way you pop popcorn. If you have read how popcorn works, you know that you need three things to make popcorn. You need moisture inside the kernel, starch inside the kernel, and a hard shell to contain the pressure. Normal rice is missing the moisture, but if you condition it with steam to get enough moisture inside the kernel, you can either oven pop rice or oil pop it. It's not as dramatic a transformation as popcorn,
but it pops using the same mechanism. Rice crispies are oven popped, which gives them the right texture to snap, crackle, and pop when milk is added. Another common puffing method for rice, as in quake puffed rice, corn as in sugar pops, or wheat as in sugar smacks, is called
gun puffing. You cook and condition the grain to get the right moisture inside, and then pressurize it too something like two s I. When you release the pressure instantly, the pressure stored inside the kernel puffs the kernel when the pressure is released. If you have ever heard of a cereal ad that talks about shooting the cereal out of a gun. This is what they're talking about. In the case of puffed dough, you can create tiny dough
balls and then air pop those dough balls. If you heat a dough ball fast enough, the moisture in the dough flash boils and puffs the ball. A cereal like Captain Crunch, is extruded, cooked, cut, pressurized, puffed, and dried in a continuous process, which is why you can see that the ends of each piece look like they've been squeezed. That's an artifact from the cutting process. For more on this and thousands of other topics, visit how staff works
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