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Professional Concerns

Concerns and comments for and by professional bakers.

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Convection and Deck Ovens

May 30, 2017 - 11:30am -- Rebenja86

I am the pastry chef at a bakery opening up soon and I'm starting to look at equipment. I will be doing a lot of breakfast pastries and breads, so ideally I'd like a deck oven, but could also use a convection oven because of the better capacity. Has anyone seen a smaller deck oven that stacks with a convection oven? I haven't come across one anywhere but thought I'd ask here. If not, are convection ovens going to produce a much worse quality of breads and pastries? I'm mostly concerned with not being able to steam it. Thanks a lot for your help!

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Croissant frustration!

March 27, 2017 - 12:00pm -- GarlicandOnionBagel

Hi guys!

This is my first post, so forgive me if it has ever been discussed. I couldn't find a specific post about it, and honestly I can't really get a straight answer on the why of it from anyone at work. I've been working in the industry for 6 years now, mainly in American pastry including pies and cake decoration. This is my first job with bread, and I'm about 3 1/2 months in, now.

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Baking Sourdoughs in Alto Shaams

March 23, 2017 - 8:49pm -- Clairelivia

Hi! I sell my Tartine-style sourdoughs at farmers markets, and they turn out beautifully at home, when I bake them in a dutch oven. At the commercial kitchen I use though there are Alto-Shaam ovens, which provide great air circulation, high heats, and a steam option. But my breads pancake out everytime. Has anyone else found a solution for this? Other bakers I know have had the same problem, but no one I know has a fix.

Thanks so much for your help!

 

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Tartine-style in Convection Oven

March 2, 2017 - 7:57am -- rfayepowers

I am starting a micro-bakery, baking 400g tartine-esque boules in a convection oven, so using a Dutch oven is out of the question. Baking stones are also not feasible right now for various reasons but perhaps you can convince me. Tenting with foil and adding water to the bottom of the oven is working pretty well for steam but I'm still finding that to get them JUST cooked in the middle, the outside (including the bottom)is getting over done. I have lowered the temp to 450 (oven is accurate) and still have this problem. Solutions?

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Hygiene code based on HACCP? Anyone has something set up?

March 2, 2017 - 12:49am -- alefarendsen

Hello all,

I've been baking on a small scale for the last year and have been selling occasionally. We're making things a bit more professional and scaling things up a little bit coming months.

As part of this, I want to make sure I'm conforming to (European) HACCP regulations (which the hygiene . The bakery association here in The Netherlands charges (a few hundred €) for a hygiene code based on HACCP, which I'm not willing to pay (at least, not yet). HACCP is fairly generic, so doesn't offer clear and concise guidelines or anything.

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