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List of Essential Commercial Bakery Equipment
How to choose complete commercial bakery equipment to start a baking business? Here you will find a comprehensive list of equipment that can be used in efficient combinations to not only enrich your menu, but also bring great profits to your business.
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What types of bakeries are there?
There are several different types of bakeries that have their own advantages and disadvantages. Perhaps you are already interested in one of them, so please learn more about the other types of bakeries that will help you make your choice.
1.Counter bakery
The typical retail format bakery consists of a kitchen and a front room with display cases, where all products are packaged and taken away by the customer.
Since no dine-in space is provided, this type of bakery requires only a small storefront to house the commercial bakery equipment and a few display cases, which can be a great rent saver, and many stores are not even designed to allow customers to enter the store when they are decorated, as customers shop and take away the pre-made food directly from the display cases at the front of the store.
2.Dine-in bakery
The main difference between a dine-in bakery and a counter bakery is that it will provide an area for customers to eat (just like any other regular restaurant), which raises the rent and requires more thought in terms of decoration. In addition, a dine-in bakery will offer other beverages and snacks to enrich the menu, such as coffee, juice and ice cream to accompany the bread and pastries.
Usually the food sold in these stores is more expensive than in the street retail stores, and many of the products are not prepared in advance for the customer to choose from, so in a dine-in bakery the customer needs to order and wait for a certain amount of time.
3.Wholesale bakery
A wholesale bakery does not sell food directly to individual customers, but produces large quantities of food to order and wholesales finished or semi-finished products to other bakeries, schools, businesses and hospitals. It provides a service similar to a central kitchen, with the advantage of not having to reserve space for a storefront and saving on renovation and front-of-house equipment costs.
But at the same time, because it has to supply a very large number of other businesses, there are high requirements for the size and quality of commercial kitchen equipment, so the initial purchase of commercial bakery equipment is more expensive, but also a lot of cost and effort in transporting large amounts of food, an important aspect.
4.Food truck
One of the biggest advantages of food trucks is that they are very mobile and not restricted by fixed storefronts. Food truck owners can sell their food in various parks, plazas and commercial areas with high traffic flow, and the food can be sourced from their own production or wholesale from bakeries, all with the aim of providing food to customers as fast as possible.
If you choose this business model, the focus is on the target group and the choice of location, whether to provide breakfast for office workers in commercial areas, or to provide food for people playing in parks and squares, this is a delicate matter, you may need to try and adjust after a period of time to conclude that the food is more popular with which type of people.
5.Home bakery
Home bakeries may be subject to different laws and regulations than other types of bakeries, so it is important to check local regulations in as much detail as possible before starting your business. For example, some countries and regions restrict home bakeries to equipment intended for home use only, meaning you cannot use industrial-grade heavy equipment or appliances for your home business, and you cannot sell food as your primary source of income.
So the advantage of a home bakery is that the cost of trial and error is relatively small, and the disadvantage is that the profits earned are often limited by local regulations.
6.Wedding cake store
You can get high profits from this kind of cake store business, and in contrast, it also comes with high competition.
Due to the singularity of the business, operators need to constantly explore their unique side or develop business by undertaking business such as birthday cakes and anniversary cakes that are also commemorative, or by introducing unique celebration cakes for some holiday celebrations.
List of bakery kitchen equipment
Building a bakery kitchen requires sound planning. Please note that all commercial bakery equipment should be selected to fit your menu. We recommend that you select the necessary large equipment first, determine the basic framework for placement, and then add smaller equipment later.
As with any kitchen, the services provided by a commercial bakery kitchen are divided into these sections: storage, preparation, cooking and cleaning. The following commercial bakery equipment list can help you learn more.
1.Freezer / Refrigerator
More than a freezer, a bakery needs a refrigerated cabinet to keep cream, dough, fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, butter and cheese, because for a bakery, the main ingredients (such as flour, baking powder and eggs) can be stored at room temperature, and there are fewer things to freeze.
You can choose individual refrigerator, or cabinets with multiple refrigerated and frozen sections, with separate storage to prevent the odors of ingredients from affecting each other.
2.Display cabinets
Display cabinets are a link that bakeries should pay more attention to than other types of restaurants, and it directly connects to the sales chain.
Customers will be interested by the variety of products placed in the transparent glass cabinets. Non-refrigerated display cabinets are suitable for most dry pastries and breads, and display cabinets with refrigeration function are more suitable for cream and fruit products.
3.Mixer
An essential food preparation equipment for bakeries, it has various functions, whipping cream and egg whites, mixing fillings and batter. There are two types: immersion and stand, while the stand has more functions and convenience than the handheld.
Mixers are available in both gear and belt drive types, with belts having the advantage of being low-noise and easy to repair, and gears having the advantage of being more powerful and the disadvantage of being more troublesome to maintain.
4.Dough machine
Specially designed to increase efficiency and save labor, the dough machine is perfect for bakeries that need a lot of dough and batter. If your kitchen space is limited, opt for a multifunction mixer capable of mixing, whipping and doughing instead.
5.Dough dividing and rounding machine
Just adjust the set cutting or rolling size, this machine can cut the dough to a regulated size so that the dough can reach the same maturity in the same baking time. It can cut bread dough, tortilla dough, pizza dough, cookie dough, and even some sausages.
6.Dough sheeters
A dough sheeter is an indispensable piece of commercial bakery equipment for almost all bakeries. It allows you to adjust the thickness of the pressed dough and quickly press the dough into a thin, even layer of pastry that achieves a wonderful crispness during baking, which is the core of many baked goods.
It is important to note that dough sheeter are generally large, and you will want to consider whether its conveyor belt can be folded to save space when it is put away.
7.Pizza preparation table
This table is usually needed when preparing a large number of pizzas, it consists of a refrigerated storage cabinet, refrigerated spice portion tray and preparation table top, the tray has a liftable lid to ensure easy access and no loss of cold air. In addition to the number and size of the trays, the width of the kneading table should also be taken into account when choosing.
8.Proofing cabinets
Fermenting the dough at a constant temperature and humidity is very important for the quality of the baked products. The door of the proofing cabinets is usually designed as a transparent glass door, which allows you to observe the state of fermentation of the dough at all times.
The higher-end proofing cabinets now have additional refrigeration and appointment scheduling features: you can make the dough the night before, set the refrigeration mode and the time to start fermentation, and this industrial bakery equipment will store the dough at refrigeration temperature and start heating and fermenting at the set time (imagine seeing the wonderfully fluffy dough when you start working in the morning).
9.Bread slicer
The slicer can cut the finished toast or baguette into standard thickness bread slices, as well as ham slices and bread sticks. The high quality slicer can keep the cut of the bread slices intact without dropping the crumbs, and the bread with beautiful appearance will be more liked by customers.
10.Work tables
Among the various materials, stainless steel work table is most suitable for placement in the kitchen, not only because its silver appearance is more coordinated with other equipment, but also because it can avoid water and grease corrosion, which helps a lot in food safety. Double operating table to store items more space.
11.Tray trolley
You need a special baking tray trolley to hold trays full of food so you don’t have to carry them back and forth between the oven, the worktop and the finished display.
12.Oven
Choose the size of the oven according to the actual situation. Countertop ovens have a smaller capacity and save space, floor ovens can bake more food at once, and the common number of layers is 1-4. If you have multiple types of baked goods, you can choose an oven with multiple cavities and each part can control the temperature independently.
Finally, it is also important to make a decision between the gas or electric types with reference to regional energy prices. In addition to this, there are a number of other types of commercial oven available.
• Hot air circulation oven: direct internal heating sometimes causes uneven heating of the dough, hot air convection is a way to evenly heat the food by constantly circulating hot air, the disadvantage is that dry hot air may dry out the surface of the food, so if you want to purchase one, please choose the additional with a spray steam humidification function.
• Deck Oven: This commercial bakery equipment uses a stone slab instead of a grill, so you can place the dough or pastry directly on the slab without the need for an additional tray. There are several materials of stone slabs, such as cordierite, ceramic and volcanic stone, and cordierite is cost-effective, with even heating and water-absorbing properties that make the bottom of the food crispy, so the common deck ovens are basically chosen for this material.
• Universal Steam Oven: This multifunctional oven has three modes of baking, steaming, simultaneous steaming and roasting, and is more often used in restaurants and hotels, bakeries rarely use steam cooking methods, but if your menu has desserts that need to be steamed or braised, you can choose whether to add them depending on the planned output.
• Rotisserie ovens: These industrial bakery equipment have built-in rotating shelves that rotate during the baking process to allow the food on the trays to be heated evenly and taste better. In many cases, it has a glass door so that the operator can see the food ripening as it rotates.
13.Pizza oven
Similar to ovens, pizza ovens are available in two types: direct heating of the internal surface and hot air circulation heating. Tracked pizza ovens can deliver the pizza directly after the baking is over. Specialized pizzerias prefer kiln-style pizza ovens and choose open fire heating methods like wood or gas, believing that it gives the pizza more flavor.
If you require a higher quality of pizza, choose an oven dedicated to baking pizzas, while if pizza is a low portion of your menu, a multifunction oven can be used to make it without the need for additional purchase.
14.Burner /Induction range
For bakeries, the oven is more useful than the burner, but many times you also need a gas or electric stove to simmer syrup or fry fillings. Please choose according to the requirements of your area and the price of gas, generally do not need to use to more than one number of burners.
15.Dishwasher
Clean all the tools used in the preparation and cooking process, including knives, trays, dishes, etc. If your bakery serves dine-in and beverages, it is even more important to use a high-temperature dishwasher to quickly clean and sanitize cups and dishes.
16.Hood
Baking process rarely produces fumes, but often use gas baking kitchen will need a ventilation hood to purify the air, because gas and open fires will produce a lot of combustion exhaust, deal with these exhaust gases can make the kitchen air fresher, while reducing the kitchen temperature.
Summary
After learning about bakery kitchen equipment, do you already have a kitchen idea of your own in mind? You can pick up all the commercial bakery equipment you need at Chefmax, or you can tell us your idea for a one-stop bakery kitchen and receive your own one-stop design drawings.