April Meeting - Confections Competition

About AACTAACT is a premier professional group of individual technologists, operations personnel, educators, students, business staff and others dedicated to the advancement of the confectionery industry.HistoryAACT has its origins at the first PMCA Conference that was held in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at Lehigh University in 1947. At the time, the PMCA was a regional association, based in Pennsylvania, USA. During this conference, candy makers, candy technologists and persons interested in candy making met to discuss the idea of organizing a national technical association. Hans Dresel, the chairman of the PMCA conference was also present at this meeting. As part of this meeting they discussed simple problems encountered in candy making such as the boiling and inversion of sugar, why the candy was sticky, dark candy, dull chocolate and everyday problems that still exists even today. Scientifically, they did not know the reason for a problem or what caused it or how to eliminate it. They did not know what to call this group, but the candy technologists were to continue to meet and exchange ideas on candy making using a more modern approach to benefit candy technologists from all over the country.Back in the early days, candymaking was virtually all art and very little science. While it is true that a good candy maker knew what various ingredients did for the candy, very little was understood about why things worked. It was felt that the industry as a whole could benefit from a scientific approach to candy making, pooling the efforts across the industry.For the first few years, the topics centered on sugar, corn syrup, starch and chocolate. From these meetings came the American Association of Candy Technologists (AACT).

Milwaukee AACT

Join us for dinner at the Machine Shed and then lend your taste buds to judging our entries in the Confections Competition!

Machine Shed Restaurant Pewaukee

<p>Our theme this year is Rhyming Flavors and our teams will be innovating and creating confections based on this theme. The confection can be whatever best shows off the skills of the competitor and each confection will be judged on flavor, technique, and utilization of the theme.</p><p>We need your tastebuds to judge these confections after you enjoy some networking and delicious food!</p>

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April Meeting - Confections Competition

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Machine Shed Restaurant Pewaukee

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