Bakery Review — February-March 2018

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Equipment & Other Necessities
Some jurisdictions allow you to operate
a bakery from home. In such cases, using
your home kitchen to launch your business
can save you costly overheads. Once you
have passed initial health department
inspection, you can begin baking goods to
sell wholesale or retail. The equipment you
need depends on the type of baked items
you intend to produce and on your expected
sales volume.
Some of the equipments that you would
need for running bakery operations are:
Commercial Electric Mixer: For
preparing cake frosting and other pastry
fillings.
Mobile Cooling Racks: You can
remove baked goods from the oven
quickly by keeping a rolling cooling rack
nearby when you are baking. Being able
to set down hot baking pans and sheets
immediately also reduces hand burns.
Refrigerator: To avoid spoilage.
Ovens: Convection ovens use fans to
circulate hot air inside the oven, which
results in even baking. 
For starting a bakery you would also
need flour, leaveners, sugar, salt and butter
(unsalted butter is the default choice for
baking, unless your recipe specifies salted
butter), oil and shortening, extracts and
flavourings, spices, mixing bowls (you
will need at least two mixing bowls for
the cake — one for wet and one for dry
ingredients), measuring cups and spoons,
electric mixer, cake pans, parchment paper,
kitchen scissors, pastry brush, toppings,
baking pans, dough hook, food processor,
plastic wrap/kitchen towel and rolling pin
among equipments and ingredients.
Besides these, for cake decoration the
aspiring baker would need some more
equipments. They are cake pans, sharp
knife/X-Acto blade, cake boards/drums,
off-set spatula and/or bench scraper,
turntable, powdered sugar or cornstarch.

Professional Training

For those who want to be professionally

trained as a baker can join short-term

certificate or diploma courses in bakery

and confectionary.

The duration of these courses in India

generally varies from four to six months.

Most baking and confectionery courses

cover topics such as nutrition, food service

safety and sanitation, baking principles,

operating and maintaining of machinery,

production processes and establishment

and management of bakery unit, etc.

There are also individual teachers

like Padma Renjith who, after returning

from Dubai four years ago, has taught

more than 500 baking enthusiasts in

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala.

She claims that almost three-fourth of

them are doing roaring business from their

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