How Oreo Cookies Are Made – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.in 1898 several baking companies merged to form the National Baking Company also called Nabisco this was the birth of the organization that would eventually create the Oreo cookie today Oreo cookies are produced at factories in 18 countries all over the world these factories help produce a whopping 40 billion cookies per year so how do they do it for Oreo cookies hand making isn't an option since the sheer amount each Factory has to produce is impossible to do by hand for this purpose the Oreo Factory is full of heavy duty Machinery equipped to churn out more than one billion cookies each year the Main Ingredients essential to the cookie making process are flour sugar cocoa powder vegetable oil leavening agents such as baking soda and baking powder salt flavorings and vanilla cream filling these are sourced from different producers and are approved by a quality troll team after they arrive at the factory the next step is preparing the batter a worker unloads heaps of sugar into an industrial grade mixer next he adds two kinds of cocoa both types are processed beforehand to make them milder and smoother the cocoa gives the Oreo cookies their signature look and taste pre-mix of salt and other ingredients follows a specially formulated canola oil mixture will help these dry ingredients form into a batter as huge beaters blend everything together water is added and the batter starts to look like a bubbling chocolate mixture then dry ice is added to lower the mixture's temperature this is important because when flour is added the dough will turn out to be less crumbly than it would have been if it was kept at room temperature a pre-mix of leavening ingredients goes in next one Final Mix and the chocolate dough is ready to go the workers then shovel the cookie dough into a grate and press them through the grate into a molding machine this helps portion the large clumps of cookie dough into individual pieces that are crucial for the molding process the molding machine then forms the dough into biscuit shapes it also has the intricate design and Logo engraved into a roller that presses it onto the cookies this machine churns out an impressive 5 000 cookies every hour for the baking part of the process the cookies move from a silicon conveyor onto a steel one this is because the excellent thermal properties of the belt deliver efficient baking and a crisp attractive base while the hard smooth surface ensures Easy Clean product release the cookies then travel through an 85 meter long industrial grade oven for several minutes and receive an even baking while the cookies are being cooled the vanilla cream filling is prepared The Filling is made from a mixture of powdered sugar vegetable shortening vanilla flavoring and sometimes other ingredients to achieve a desired taste and texture once the vanilla filling is prepared it is loaded onto a pump the pump is a device that allows controlled and precise dispensing of the filling the filling is poured into a hopper or container attached to the pump on the other side once the cookies are cool to the desired Christmas they are ready for assembly they move to another conveyor which feeds into a series of shoots the biscuits travel over ramps designed to make them fall into a certain orientation one side lands plain side up while the other one lands with the engraved side up this puts them in the correct position for the all-important cream filling a centrilical pump deposits the vanilla filling onto the plain side of the biscuits these biscuits then travel to a station where Machinery presses the top biscuit onto the bottom one once the cookies have been assembled mechanical fingers separate them into bunches then grippers swing into action and move each Bunch forward and then release it into plastic trays the entire cookie making process takes about 90 minutes churning Out 3 000 cookies every minute the trays now full of biscuits move on to the quality control station at the QC station the Oreo cookies undergo quality control checks to ensure they meet the company's standards once approved they are packaged into larger boxes or containers and shipped to distribution centers where they are then sent to retailers for sale this iconic cookie is available in more than a hundred countries around the globe and approximately 34 billion are sold each year if the whole process has you craving something sweet don't worry we've got your back check out our video on how chocolate is made