June 1, 2015 - 6:55am
oven and hi
hi all
we are just starting out on our micro-bakery journey in a small town outside Nottingham. We have already out grown our oven and so need to take the next step with purchasing a new oven for bread and cakes. we only have a small budget and I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on the best way to go in terms of middle ground type oven? I guess deck ovens are the best or a wood fire oven but we aren't quite there yet :)
we have been looking at Burco convention oven which might fill our needs, but we are loath to get it wrong.
so, any advice would be truly helpful.
Many thanks Belle.
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Down in deepest darkest Devon!
Look at Rofco - although I don't have one myself. It will all depends on the daily load - and electricity supply.
I have a Lincat EC08 - comes with a 13A plug. The biggest Rofco needs 13A too, so that's easy to plug in. Brook food are now importing them into the UK, so that will give you an immediate indication of price. The Lincats are cheaper than the Rofcos, but if I'd known more about the Rofcos a year ago I might have saved up for one. (Downside for me though is that my bakery is up a set of stairs and it was hard enough getting the Lincat and mixer up them!)
http://www.brookfood.co.uk/rofco
I have "upgraded" my Lincat with the addition of 3 x 10mm thick steel shelves. Made a huge difference to the way it bakes bread. My limit right now is 12 small loaves in that (or 6-9 large ones) plus what I can get in a standard domestic oven - although on busy mornings I do up to 3 runs through each oven, budgeting 45 minutes per oven run.
Good luck with your bakery! Do drop me an email if you want more info, etc.
Cheers,
-Gordon
(edit to change 100mm into the correct 10mm!!!)
I just took delivery of a Rofco B40 last Friday and baked my first breads in them today. So in terms of real experience I can't add anything just yet (my only bread baking experience is in a DO in my home oven).
The Rofco is quite heavy with the stones still parked in them, but you can easily take these out and the weight of what's left is the same as a small fridge I would say.
There are plenty of reports on the Rofco on TFL as well as on on a Dutch site weekendbakery.com (google them).
Ah, the Rofco set me back €1785 (excl. VAT).