It’s time for another Freddie blog post and video! In this post, I sent a multiple cookies job to Freddie for the first time.
It’s time for another Freddie blog post and video! In my previous posts, I unboxed, calibrated, and iced my first two cookies. This time, I sent a multiple cookies job to Freddie for the first time. Not familiar with Freddie? He’s Primera Technology’s newest machine in their Eddie ecosystem and he ices any cookie shape! Primera is currently building and delivering their first 100 units and I was fortunate enough to get one of the first ten. I’ve been an Eddie owner for over two years and other generous Eddie owners were so helpful to me when I started out, I’ve decided to share my experience learning how to use Freddie.
Much like when I first got Eddie, I started out only sending one cookie at a time, but I was especially interested to see how Freddie would do if I sent multiple cookies to him in one job. I’m a one woman show and I’m not ready to hire employees yet, so the promise of Freddie flooding my cookies while I make dough, print with Eddie, or respond to clients is one of the reasons I decided to purchase him.
At this point, I hadn’t read the manual or had my training with Primera, so this is a real look at what you could expect to be able to do on your own in your first hour of Freddie ownership. If you watch the video, you’ll see, for example, that I had problems such as a gap in the icing on one cookie or the icing not going evenly to all the edges. However, I also quickly fixed these with my scribe (and later learned from Primera in my training that all this could be addressed with settings).
For these cookies, I was using a little looser flood. During the icing calibration process, Freddie told me the icing was too thin for the default outline and flood pressures, and provided me with recommended ranges so I could fix the pressure without having to make new icing. Since the flood was a little thin, I chose to have Freddie flood to 0.05 inches from the edge. That’s not as close as I would get by hand-piping, or even if I dipped the cookies, but I thought it was a good distance for while I’m learning to use him. Plus, this way the icing was less likely to spread and fall off the edges.
Overall, Freddie completed the three cookie job with no errors or problems. The issues I have can all be fixed by changing settings and each cookie took about a minute to flood. Once I master the icing consistency and Freddie’s settings, I think he will definitely save me time. I can’t wait to try sending him 6, or 12, or even 50 of a shape!
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