Among baking equipment, the most commonly used one is of course the oven, followed by the chef machine, and then the fermentation box. With these three major pieces, you will have completely crossed the threshold of baking.
Food processors and refrigerators are not baking equipment in the true sense, but food processors can beat and crush ingredients to help you easily make better baked products; and refrigerators are important places to store ingredients. In addition to these common baking equipment, There are also some professional equipment in the commercial field, such as pastry machines, slicers, molding machines, etc. These tools can often achieve the efficiency of one against ten.
Baking equipment
1. Oven (required)
Ovens are divided into Electric Ovens and Gas Ovens. The body of the oven is made of metal, usually cold-rolled steel or stainless steel. The oven door is made of glass to facilitate observation of the baking condition of the food.
2. Stand mixer
The Stand Mixer belongs to the household version of the food mixer category. In the commercial field, there are also dough mixers and multi-function mixers.
The Stand Mixer function converts electrical energy into kinetic energy, that is, the motor drives the mixing head, thereby mixing the food with each other.
3. Fermentation box
Similar to an oven, a fermentation box is also a sealed box that converts electrical energy into heat energy, but the difference lies in the temperature control range and humidity control.
Conventional fermentation boxes are composed of metal boxes and glass door frames, while simple fermentation boxes are made of plastic or insulation cotton.
The main purpose of the fermentation box is to ferment food, including pasta, yogurt, etc. You can also use it to speed up the warming of ingredients, such as softening butter and thawing food. Many load-bearing fermentation boxes also function as oven racks.
4. Food processor
Food processors and chef machines are both machines with mixing functions, but the former has a higher speed and sharper mixing head (blade), which can break ingredients into fine particles.
5. Refrigerator
Although the refrigerator is not directly related to baking, it is an important “warehouse” for storing baking ingredients.
There is another type of refrigerator, which is the console refrigerator.
It is a refrigerator whose top can be used as a console. The top is usually made of stainless steel and is easy to clean.
This kind of refrigerator is very cost-effective, which is equivalent to buying a refrigerator and giving you a workbench.
Other professional equipment
The pastry machine is a professional bread processing equipment. It is very similar to the dough press in terms of appearance and working principle. It is mainly used to make puff pastry dough, such as Danish bread, pie crust, tart crust, etc.
Dough divided with exactly applied pressure;
Moulder is applicable for the degassing and shape repairing of bread such as toast and French roll.
In addition to the common electrical equipment introduced earlier, there are also many kinds of professional equipment. Here we only select some that can be used by small-scale bakeries, such as dough sheeter, slicers, moulder machines, etc.
