If there’s one thing that became apparent food-wise over the last year it’s that bread was, is and always will be a staple food. Along with toilet paper and flour, it was one of the items that most supermarkets were running out of.

This is great news for anyone with a talent and love for baking. No matter what happens, or how many healthy food and diet trends come and go, a bakery is a profitable business because there’s going to be someone needing and buying bread at one point or another – be it a whole wheat bread, focaccia, ciabatta, or multigrain.

If people love what you bake, then it’s about time you ventured into the baking business and started earning your living out of your passion. To get started, you’re going to need a suitable bakery food machine collection to produce tasty baked goods.

Good bakery machinery is essential for both small and large bakeries alike. Moreover, such equipment is so useful that it also comes in handy with opening up patisseries, cafes, as well as restaurants where they serve a variety of baked products.

Baking Equipment 

A Reliable Oven

As the heart of a bakery and the most basic component, the oven has a role in a bakery’s success because it’s to do with baking consistency and efficiency which are crucial for the quality of the baked goods. The wide range of options of oven designs can be overwhelming but it shouldn’t be too hard to make your decision taking your baking needs and budget into account.

Depending on the volume and size of the products, the choice comes down to modular and convection ovens. The first ones are a custom solution and are an especially great investment for large bakeries as well as those that are expected to expand in the future.

Whereas the latter type of ovens is most common out of a variety of commercial food equipment for the affordability and outstanding repeatable results such as even baking and heat distribution – perfect for a variety of bakery products. On the more expensive end for the larger bakeries, there are two other options: the rack and the revolving ovens.

Rack ovens are meant to cut down on labour and material handling as they work on the same concept as roll-in refrigerators, while the revolving ones are similar to the rotisserie ovens. To consider the purchasing decision solid, besides the type and capacity, it’s also necessary to give the space of the bakery itself some thought, along with whether you prefer electric or gas.

Dough Preparation Equipment 

A Suitable Mixer

Before you even get a product that makes it to baking, you need the food machine created to mix the dough; it all starts with the dough in a bakery! Sure, you might try doing it the old way, using your own hands and physical labour to mix but if you care about the production volume and you plan on expanding, then certainly you’d benefit from investing in a commercial mixer.

You’ve got the chance to pick from planetary and spiral types, having in mind the first ones are ideal for a variety of doughs, while the latter are only good for bakery goods.

If you plan on baking any pastries, cakes, pizzas, then you might want to get a beneficial stand planetary mixer which is perfect for many attachments and tools, and leave the spiral for the variety of breads only. 

Another option to consider is the hand mixer, but when compared with the other two, it’s much less powerful and has less capacity.

The Essential Proofer

Another necessary food equipment piece related to the dough, the proofer is designed to keep the dough in the needed warm and humid conditions in controlled temperatures thus encouraging the fermentation process. It’s needless to point out, such a piece of machinery comes in handy with increasing the bakery’s efficiency, but if you’re up for even more efficiency and control, perhaps you should consider investing in a retarder proofer.

This machine is both retarder and proofer in one, as it consists of a refrigerator and proofing cabinet, allowing you to store your dough overnight and it will start to rise at the time when you set it. Thanks to this ingenious design that makes for slow proofing and smoother dough, there’s less water evaporating, and more dough rising that results in the use of less yeast – about 50% less to be exact.

Furthermore, you’d also benefit by ensuring the quality of the bread as slow proofing cuts down the risk of crust separating from the inside throughout the baking process. Not to mention, there’s a more intense taste and aroma unlike when you force the proofing process. In other words, besides producing baked delicacies of quality, you’d also save up on space, time and money with such a piece of equipment.

A Handy Divider and Sheeter

Yet another food machine that has to do with dough, the divider is considered a necessity if you want to increase productivity while reducing physical effort and getting a more uniform dough texture at that. As you might guess, it’s a machine created to divide a large batch of dough into equal balls of dough, perfect for bakeries, cafes, and pizzeria businesses where uniform results are required.

The sheeter is used to roll and stretch the balls of dough to flatten them in the needed thickness. Thanks to this, it’s useful also for bakeries that specialise in various types of pasta. As both are high-performance machines, they’re ideal for bakeries with large scale daily production. In case you want to invest in them even for a small bakery, perhaps you should purchase floor designs instead.

Display Equipment 

A Stylish Case

Okay, the ingredients and food machines make for tasty and aromatic baked goods, which is part of the success of a bakery, but the other part is how you sell them. That’s why display cases are more than essential when you plan on opening a bakery.

Along with being able to show off your baked goods, such an equipment piece is helpful with preserving the freshness for long considering it’s closed off to outside air – perfection same as you’d get from an upright fridge freezer.

As there are various models to choose from, you can base your decision on their size, features and price, as well as on the kind of goods it is you want to store and showcase since they don’t all need refrigeration – as in the case with breads, croissants, and pasta.