Baked Biscuit on Guitar Cutter?

[dhardy123]

Hi All

I want to make a chocolate bar with a baked biscuit base, caramel middle and marshmallow top. I would like to assemble as one and then cut on my guitar cutter. Does any know of a thin baked biscuit recipe that can be cut on a guitar cutter without crumbling or breaking up or breaking my guitar strings?

[AAQuesada]

Stupid question but I take it that you mean biscuit as in crisp cookie and not biscuit as in cat's head? 

[dhardy123]

8 hours ago, AAQuesada said:

Stupid question but I take it that you mean biscuit as in crisp cookie and not biscuit as in cat's head? 

Yes I am thinking like a sable breton or something similar

[Jim D.]

I would not risk my guitar on a baked biscuit (if you ever had to replace a wire, you know what I mean).  I also think cutting the biscuit risks having it break into bits.  Instead I would make a "praliné" (as some people call it).  This technique requires a bar mold.  Bake the biscuits, grind them into crumbs, add some melted cocoa butter and whatever kind of chocolate that fits with the flavors in the bar.  Pipe that into the bar mold on top of the other fillings.  If your proportions are correct, the crisp layer will firm up.  This way you have your desired layer without endangering the guitar, and you also get the flavor that was in the biscuit.  If you don't want to use a mold, you can pour the crispy layer onto a flat surface and wait for just the right consistency to cut it into the same size as you want the finished product to be.  I can send you a recipe showing the proportions for the crispy layer if you need that.  I realize this is not exactly what you were aiming for, but it does avoid endangering wires.

[dhardy123]

3 hours ago, Jim D. said:

I would not risk my guitar on a baked biscuit (if you ever had to replace a wire, you know what I mean).  I also think cutting the biscuit risks having it break into bits.  Instead I would make a "praliné" (as some people call it).  This technique requires a bar mold.  Bake the biscuits, grind them into crumbs, add some melted cocoa butter and whatever kind of chocolate that fits with the flavors in the bar.  Pipe that into the bar mold on top of the other fillings.  If your proportions are correct, the crisp layer will firm up.  This way you have your desired layer without endangering the guitar, and you also get the flavor that was in the biscuit.  If you don't want to use a mold, you can pour the crispy layer onto a flat surface and wait for just the right consistency to cut it into the same size as you want the finished product to be.  I can send you a recipe showing the proportions for the crispy layer if you need that.  I realize this is not exactly what you were aiming for, but it does avoid endangering wires.

Thank You Jim

 

I definitely don't want to risk my wires. I was just wondering if anyone has ever used their guitar to cut a thin baked cookie. If not I can cut by hand

[curls]

Not to say that it doesn't exist but I can't imagine a crisp biscuit / cookie that you could cleanly slice with a guitar cutter. A water jet would probably do the job perfectly. Don't know if they sell small scale water jets for hobbyists / small business.

 

Update, just did a search and a desktop waterjet does exist. 

https://wazer.com/waterjets/desktop/

 

And here are a few that are built for the food industry.  https://www.waterjetcorp.com/en/products/gourmet/

Edited 19 hours ago by curls
Added water jet link. (log)

[dhardy123]

13 hours ago, curls said:

Not to say that it doesn't exist but I can't imagine a crisp biscuit / cookie that you could cleanly slice with a guitar cutter. A water jet would probably do the job perfectly. Don't know if they sell small scale water jets for hobbyists / small business.

 

Update, just did a search and a desktop waterjet does exist. 

https://wazer.com/waterjets/desktop/

 

And here are a few that are built for the food industry.  https://www.waterjetcorp.com/en/products/gourmet/

I watched an instagram story where they used a guitar cutter on a biscuit. I just might need to try it and see what happens

 

Water jet would be cool but my chef's knife is a lot cheaper

[curls]

2 hours ago, dhardy123 said:

I watched an instagram story where they used a guitar cutter on a biscuit. I just might need to try it and see what happens

 

Water jet would be cool but my chef's knife is a lot cheaper

Please report back on your experiments. It would be great to include a biscuit in a candy bar. Even better if it was easy to cut everything to the size you want.

 

Understand the cost issue... my dream chocolate kitchen has a lot more equipment than my actual chocolate kitchen. 🙂

[dhardy123]

1 hour ago, curls said:

Please report back on your experiments. It would be great to include a biscuit in a candy bar. Even better if it was easy to cut everything to the size you want.

 

Understand the cost issue... my dream chocolate kitchen has a lot more equipment than my actual chocolate kitchen. 🙂

It is this video. It sure looks like a baked biscuit at the start...

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGIU8oRuGaJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

 

[Jim D.]

26 minutes ago, dhardy123 said:

It is this video. It sure looks like a baked biscuit at the start...

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGIU8oRuGaJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

 

 

Watching the video, I can certainly see why you want to make something similar.  You can see the difficulty of cutting the marshmallow--it has to be just the right texture for the wires to go through it (mostly) cleanly.  The video's caption states that the layer is a biscuit.  Just in case...somewhere on this forum @pastrygirl has posted a video showing how to replace a guitar wire.   She helped me through my first (and so far only) guitar crisis.