Bakery Equipment & Supplies

PastPastries or cakes. Pizzas or breads. Croissants or baguettes.

Cooking is an art and patience is a virtue. You can patiently hone your culinary skills and become a master chef, especially if you have the right tools at your disposal.

You could be hosting guests who are hard to please. Or, you may want to whip up hot chocolate cookies for your kids.

Regardless of what you want your baked delicacies to do for you, as a baker, you need to be sound with your choice of kitchen equipment, whether it is an oven or a mixer, or a cake pan, or even a whip. But, how would you decide it fits your requirements the best? We will help you make that choice.

A lot happening inside:

The Oven
A baker's business revolves around the oven. That is where he makes his bread, and earns his money from. So, choosing an oven is a decision you should make after careful thought and assessment of your kitchen needs. Now, ovens come in all makes and sizes.
At AppleRestaurantSupply.com, we give you a host of brands in kitchen supplies to choose from as well. But, first you have to decide what kind of oven suits your needs best.
A conventional oven is a thing of the past. It may make you nostalgic about your childhood days, and grandma's cookies. But, it is definitely not something you should settle for when you have to do business, and when more efficient and modern versions of the oven are available, at competitive rates.
Ovens are one-time buys. Maintaining consistency in your product quality is essential to any business, and if you are in the business of selling baked items in your restaurant, you should consider the following:
1.    The first criterion should be the kind of bakery products you want to prepare in the oven. The range of products will determine the requirement for different heating levels.
2.    The second criterion is the load on the oven depending on the baking activity. How much production do you aim for? The capacity of the oven should match your supply needs.
3.    Thirdly, consider carefully the space available in the kitchen. Can you afford to bring in a huge oven and compromise on other space for kitchen equipment?
4.    Finally, the cost of running and maintenance of the oven is another consideration. This would include fuel costs. Both gas and electricity-run ovens are available at AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

Pile it on

Bakery Racks
Kitchens in restaurants usually stack up food items like buns, dough balls, cakes and breads in trays on huge racks, stacked on wheels, for easy mobility around the space. AppleRestaurantSupply.com gives you a choice between racks from Dough Xpress, Gold Medal, Johnson-Rose Corp., Cres Cor and WinCo.

The Inside Story:

Baking/Dessert Pans
It is your son's birthday, your parents' anniversary, or a promotion at office. Whatever the occasion, if it is time to bake a cake, head straight for the oven, armed with the right ovenware.
There are a variety of cake pans that you can choose depending on the size of your oven, and the number of guests you need to cater to. You could even experiment with the shape of your cake pan – keep it round or go in for a rectangle-shaped cake pan. Usually a 10-inch diameter pan works for regular cakes, but you could choose the depth of the cake pan according to the size of your cake.
Do you like your cakes to be round? Or would you rather have the option of a rectangular dish to bake? You can explore the range of options available from Johnson-Rose Corp. and Carlisle.
Cake pans are customized for the kind of baking activity you need to perform. Baking a bread loaf will need a loaf pan, a pie will need a pie dish, and cookies would need a flat dish.
Of course, a baking dish that you have to scoop your cake out of is rather annoying when you are looking for the clean, finished look. Go for the Spring Form Cake Pans, which are regular cake pans split into two, with the bottom disc and the ring-shaped diametric pan coming apart when detached.
It helps retain the shape and crust of the cake.

Can't do without it:

Baking/Pastry Supplies
Knick-knacks around your kitchen may go unnoticed, but these kitchen equipment items are as essential to getting that cake or pie on your customer's plate as the ingredients you use. Try getting by without a spatula or a scraper. These come in sizes ranging from 10 inches to 16 and a quarter inches.
Take for instance; you're going to prepare an apple pie. Try and list out what all pieces of small-sized kitchen equipment would you end up using.
Something as small as a pie may entail a series of small-sized kitchen equipments like the pie-cutter, pie-cover with rack, pie-marker and a pie server. The range from Johnson-Rose Corp, Carlisle and Mundial is exhaustive in this regard.
A pastry on the other hand would need a pastry blender, a pastry brush, a pastry-decorating comb, and a pastry tray cover. Pineapple or chocolate, regardless of the flavor, your pastry will win favor with your customers only if it manages to catch their eye, presented well in a pastry display case.
Attractive presentation will attract customers. To help you do that, AppleRestaurantSupply.com presents you with a range of cake decorative sets from Johnson-Rose Corp.
Once the cakes are ready for display, display them together on a cake display stand, or individually with the cake cover. These are available in different sizes from Carlisle.
The icing on the cake, of course, will be ready with the help of the icing grate and the icing spatula. And if you want to give a personal touch, pipe your sugar-cream mixture through a pastry bag, and write a message as the host.

Kneading Trouble?

Dough Boxes and Proofers
This would be a category of interest mainly for professional bakers and restaurateurs, who need to roll out a lot of dough in a short period of time. Mixing the batter and preparing dough takes time. Though time-consuming, this activity can be managed by anticipating the demand and creating enough supply in advance. Dough boxes store dough balls in big numbers to roll out pizzas. Heat-proofers hold dough trays with the dough balls, and keep the dough from fermenting and going sour. If you are in the food industry, and you mean business, then Dough Boxes and Proofers' range of kitchen supplies would be high on your priority list.

Flatten it out

Dough Press and Dough Sheeter
Once you've got the dough balls ready ahead of time, it's another task to roll them out and toss them to get the right shape. Modern day kitchen equipment manufacturers give you the option to do this dough flattening business on a machine. You could either manually flatten the dough with the Manual Pizza/Tortilla Dough Press or go in for the automatically operated Press'n Toss Pizza Dough Press. Choose from a range of Dough Presses from the kitchen supplies by DoughXpress or Somerset's range of Dough Presses.

Mix and Mash:

You've got all the ingredients right down to the precise quantity of each. Now comes the task of preparing the batter and mixing the ingredients together. But, are you looking for a thick batter or a smooth mixture with a liquid feel? Choose your mixer according to the task at hand. Preferably, go for the bi-function mixers that let you switch between options of mixing and whisking. These come in two sizes, aptly titled Junior and Master.
But, mixers need not only be hand-operated. For bigger kitchen operations, the quantities to be mixed are managed by huge mixers, which come in either Floor or Counter-top models.

Mixers - Floor model
If you are spoilt for choice and have the space to accommodate a stand-alone mixer, go for this model. It is sturdier and usually more efficient with large quantities. At AppleRestaurantSupply.com, you can choose from among mixers with 25 quarter capacity to 80 quarter capacity from Globe's range of kitchen supplies.

Mixers - Countertop
If space is a constraint in your kitchen premises, try going for a counter-top model rather than a floor model. Not only does it help in proper utilization of space, it facilitates cleaning and storage.

Mixers are great time savers in the labor-intensive restaurant business. With improvements in kitchen technology, the days of noisy mixers are passé. Quiet, efficient machines are the order of the day. You can take your pick from Dynamic, Globe, Hamilton Beach brands.

Whip it up

Whips/Mashers
The task bar in the kitchen is never-ending. Begin with whipping the eggs, kneading the dough, mixing the batter, and the list goes on. While you try and whip up a delicacy, make sure you go for the right kitchen equipment – Whip.
Manual whips come in different diametric dimensions. At AppleRestaurantSupply.com, whips are available in the Chef series French Whip and the Chef series Piano Whip, French Hotel Whip, the regular French Whip.
Whipping it up could be a fun task for the adventurous cook in you, but it would take up a lot of time, especially if the quantity to be delivered is going to be large. Depending on how much energy you would want to use on the whipping business, you could also go for a combination whip and mixer.
Choose between the Junior Bi-function Mixer and Whisk (Dynamic) or the Master Bi-function Mixer and Whisk (Dynamic). Or else, you may simply procure an attachment Whip made of stainless steel for Hobart mixers.
While whipping eggs and milk, or dough, the consistency of the batter and the kind of dish (whether it is a soft cake, semi-soft doughnut or a hard-baked cookie) you are preparing in your kitchen, you would need to go for the right kind of whipping action.
Get a Master Whip with variable speed options to tackle different menu items.
Mayonnaise, for instance, can be dealt exclusively with a stainless steel whip (manufactured by Johnson-Rose Corp.)
So, you're not the one to be tied down with cords and cables? Try some whipping action with a Mini Cordless Mixer.

Of course, there are a lot more products that will aid you in the kitchen. An exhaustive list of kitchen supplies and equipments is available on AppleRestauurantSupply.com.
Bon Appétit!