Quality inspection example

A quality inspection example. Bakery Academy is showing how such inspection example would look like, there is however much in ‘the eye of the beholder’. Which says as much that values chosen here might actually be quality complaints of certain customers: the difference between how the product is intended and how it is received. In the end you can take this example and change it to your own attributes and scores/grades and define your AQL. In the example we use a puff pastry product:

Apple Turnover (Apple Triangle)

Topic	Maximum points	Remarks	Score given
Length	8	Target: 5.7-6.2
Width	8	Target: 10.3-10.8
Height	8	Target: 2.5-3.5
Baking nature	8	Evenly Uneven oneside Uneven 2-side
Layering	8	Gradual and visible Unclear Distorted (part visible, part not)
Crust Colour	8	Golden brown Dark edges Burnt/ overcaramelised sugar
Crumb Colour	8	Slightly pale to light brown White Golden brown
Filling position	7	Center Towards one of the edges
Bake out	8	No One side 2 sides 3 sides
Flakiness	8	Easy Flakyness Tough Elastic
Crispiness	7	Sound upon (soft) bite Requires hard bite for sound (crunchy) No sound at any bite
Flavour	7	Apple, Caramel and Butter Apple Butter Caramel None
Tenderness	7	Dry Melting Uncooked Thick crust
Total points	100

How to score and grade once above a certain absolute number depends on your personal interpretation: a higher puff pastry might appear great, but might not fit the packaging and thus resulting in a negative customer experience. A slightly lower turnover might still be consumed, with slightly less satisfaction, but still fulfilling most part of customer experience.

Every Attribute you can support with a picture or sometimes with a self designed test, e.g. for judgement of flakiness you could rub for 10 seconds on the bottom of the turnover and judge if the flakes are small, big or perhaps even not there.

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