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The Ten Most Important Baking Equipment For Local Bakeries

Sep 28, 2010 Bakery Pies

When starting a new bakery business, you will find it is strikingly very detailed in terms of its preparation. You will surely need a guide for the most vital equipments in baking. Hence, being in the bakery type of business is considered as a very industrious kind of business because it entails hard work and patience. Building a bakery that is also based on your home can also stand as a meticulous endeavor.

Being in the bakery type of business is considered as a very industrious kind of business because it entails hard work and patience. Building a bakery that is also based on your home can also stand as a meticulous endeavor. Hence, on the brighter side, you don’t need a whole lot of equipment before you can get your business started. You only need your oven, a few pans, and the main ingredients like flour, eggs, yeast and the like. Of course, the bread and pastries you will make would depend on your own special recipe, your family’ recipe or on what you have learned from a baking class. Depending on the type of bread, pastry or bread you will bake, you will know what kind of oven you will need or what type of ingredients to buy. Thus, for you to get into this kind of industry, quality control of every product and apparatus should be observed diligently.

Some of the things that a baker needs are listed below, along with their uses:

1. Baking pans come in different shapes and sizes depending on the user’s plan of what he or she will bake. This is considered as the most important asset and one of the food service’s largest investments. Some of the most readily available pan styles include:

• Open top bread pans
• Single and strapped Pullman pans
• Hearth bread pans
• Baguette pans
• Bun and roll pans
• Cupcake and muffin pans
• Display case pans
• Specially-constructed perforated baking sheets
• Sheet pans
• Pizza pans
• Cake pans
• Pie pans, and many other types.

They are mainly made from three different kinds of materials like:

• Tin plated steel
• Aluminium coated steel
• Aluminium in either cast or sheeted forms.

2. Measuring cups or spoons is the very source of a chef’s exact mixture. Baking is an exact science, where in, you need to have an exact amount of every product which you need to add and make sure that they are added at the right time.

3. Slide bread rollers are very useful in trying to flatten or to thin out your dough. This roller is usually utilized in order for you to have enough amount of dough that you need.

4. A baking sheet is always used for practical reasons that only baker understands. They usually use wax paper but if it is too costly to buy one. This is why baking sheets are enough because they are a good substitute for the mentioned wax paper.

5. Sifter or a substitute for this could be a fine sieve. This is chiefly used for sieving your flour off the dirt or the tiny solid portion of your flour.

6. A timer which can ring very loudly is preferred because inside the baking room there is some unavoidable noise that can hinder your ears from perceiving the sound of your timer. It is mainly used for determining the right time that the breads or other products will obtain their exact degree of heat.

7. An oven is of course the most imperative of all the equipments. This, as all of us know, is the heart and soul of a bakery, aside from the baker of course! Maintenance of such a machine is also demanded and should be strictly imposed.

8. A bread cutter, as the name implies, is utilized for slicing bread products into the desired thickness and form. You can somehow set the right size for your bread if you use this tool.

9. A mixer is intended for beating, whipping, mixing food ingredients that comes in two major variations, hand mixers and stand mixers. Hand mixers, as they are named, are hand-held mixing devices. This is usually mounted over a large enclosure that contains the motor, which has either one or two beaters. A stand mixer is almost the same as the hand mixer but it is mounted on a stand which is larger and more powerful than their hand-held counterparts. They usually have a mixing bowl that is fixed into place while the mixing process is ongoing. Thus, heavy duty models have the capacity of about 95 litres. The typical home models can accommodate about 4 litres.

10. Refrigerators are mainly used for storage of unused or some left over ingredients in order to preserve their freshness.

Bakery equipments are good investments for starting a bakery business. By filling up your list and contemplating on the needs of your store, you will be able to assess when you can get your return of investments.

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Out like a lamb cake

Sep 26, 2010 Bakery Pies

Out like a lamb cake
Like thousands of other Chicago area residents, Catherine Lambrecht of Highland Park decided to have a lamb-shaped cake for her Easter table last year. The cakes, a venerable tradition that symbolizes the sacrifice of Christ, are sold in scores of bakeries throughout the Chicago area, but Lambrecht, being a do-it-yourself type, decided to make her own.

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Baking Up Profits

Sep 15, 2010 Bakery Pies

Has anyone ever told you to sell that delicious pound cake? Have friends and family insisted you could be making a mint selling your delicious sugar cookies? If this sounds like you, then you could be baking up profits from your kitchen. All over the country there are countless home-based bakeries delivering heavenly baked goods throughout the community.

There are many responsibilities that go with starting a home-based bakery. You will first need to have a Food Regulatory Specialist/Food Compliance Officer come to your home and inspect it. In most cases the Department of Agriculture is the governing agency that will oversee your compliance inspection. Your kitchen will need to be inspected to assure that it is clean and in proper condition to produce baked goods that are suitable for human consumption. Although a license is not required for a home-based bakery, and a separate kitchen is not needed, you will have to comply with special conditions set down by the Department of Agriculture or your local regulatory agency.

There are currently 11 states that allow home-based bakers to sell their baked goods/candies to the public. The states are: Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia ; all others should check with their local (county) health departments or food safety agencies.

Operating a home-based bakery means finding your niche. Do you cake decorate; make custom cookies or a fabulous dry jerk rub? Years ago when the country was predominately rural there were many home-based bakers and home cooks and bakers sold their jams, preserves and jellies, along with homemade breads, pastries, cakes, pies and cookies.

Three years ago the Raleigh Farmer’s Market asked home-bakers to sell their goods at the Crafters Shed away from the main market area. Today there is a specific area for home-based bakers and the public is flocking to their tables. The baked goods are fresh, delicious and offer a variety not available in grocery stores.

Let there be no mistake, operating a home-based bakery is hard work. It means long hours and a commitment to quality, but for those who take on the challenge it is by far the best job in the whole. You set your own hours, you provide the public with delicious goods that can only be duplicated by you and for those with families they are their when the children get home from school.

The down side of the profession use to be the isolation, but a home-based bakery forum has been created to help bakers stay in touch with one another and support one another building camaraderie among home-based bakers that never existed before.

Baking for a living is an honorable profession, plus Internet access offers many bakers the opportunity to sell their products online. For example, Diane, the owner of Maine’s Cakes and Cookies, has been baking from home for more than five years. She loves what she does and proves the public with incredible baked goods. This is also a wonderful way for those who cook for a living, e.g. personal chef’s to offer their clients a little touch of something fresh from the oven.

The next time someone say’s, you really should think about selling that pie or cake or cookie. Look into operating a home-based bakery. You never know where the journey will take you and good home-baked goods are like jobs, hard to find.

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