Burger Buns Molds/Pans - Looking great!
Hello guys,
I'm from Romania and i run a Burger restaurant. We make the brioche/patato buns in house. I use baking rings to form perfect round buns, but i'm not happy with the result. The side walls of the buns where the ring is, are not forming good crust and this is a problem for the structure of the bun. The baking equipment in Romania is nothing special and you cannot find specific things here. I looked everywhere in the USA to buy baking pans or molds for the buns, but i don't know what to choose. Pretty much there are no specific molds for buns - what i get is cupcake molds, specially the 4.25/3.75/1.5inch pan of USA pan. I really like the buns looking like the pictures below. They are smaller at the bottom and bigger at the top. If i bake the buns in a cupcake mold is the result going to be the same as the pictures or the bun will look like cupcake? I guess it depends how deep the molds are and how much you let the bun proof. I wonder what they use for the dark color of the bun as well - they are not using eggs for sure.
Hi. perhaps you could try large-sized empty tuna fish cans. I use them for crumpets and English muffins but maybe they would work for burger buns too.
Chris
King Arthur Flour sells a hamburger bun pan:
https://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/items/hamburger-bun-and-mini-pie-pan
If that is too wide or deep for your purposes, muffin top pans work well for buns as well, and there are a variety from 3" to 4" in diameter:
https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=muffin+top+pan&i=garden&_encoding=UTF8&hvadid=77859221302220&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&tag=mh0b-20&ref=pd_sl_38y23wb7kw_e
Hope you don't need too many -- they're pricey for volume work, but maybe you can find a better deal if you look around. The USA hamburger bun pan has smaller wells than the mini cake pan that you described above, but it is manufactured exclusively for King Arthur. You could try calling them to see if you can get a volume discount or wholesale pricing. Not sure if anyone makes a larger pan with more wells for professional use. It might be worth calling USA as well.
I could fond a burger joint here on USA that bakes their own buns save for some crazy high end fine dining restaurant that serves it on Kobe beef and truffles. I want a romanian hamburger !