The farinograph was invented in the 1930s the first of the physical dough testing instruments Janssen et al., 1996; Walker and Hazelton, 1996) and it is the most popularofthe empiricalrheo- logical instruments. The farinograph is one of the most widely used recording dough mixers. The two Z-shaped blades of the farino graph mixer rotate at constant speeds and subject the dough to mixing at constant temperature. The farinograms generated from