If you’ve upgraded to a new oven, have you thought about how it will affect bake times? Running thermal profiles is the most reliable method for objectively adjusting the baking time and establishing the optimum bake temperature for different baked goods when using the oven for multiple products. High-speed ovens may not be as [...]
There's a lot going on in the heat of the bake. That's why your oven has so many settings! But understanding how the oven temperature relates to the product temperature is a big one. Product temperature vs. oven temperature When a product is placed in the oven, the internal temp is quite lower than the oven temp [...]
The oven is perhaps the most critical step in the baking process. Yet, over baking is easy to do, and happens more than you realize. So it's important to get it right to avoid waste or a low quality product. For a precise bake, you need to understand the three crucial oven zones: Oven [...]
While your products are busy baking in the oven, they need available moisture, or humidity in the air. Without it, heat isn’t transferred to the product so starch gelatinization and other reactions can't take place, and moisture migration can't happen properly. That's why it's crucial to control oven humidity. Factors that influence it are: Oven Load: Humidity [...]
I don't need to tell you that oven temperature is important. It's how chemical reactions take place that transform your product. That's why temperature needs so much attention—so many things are happening at once! Oven Temperature has a key roll in 3 areas: Development: Killing of yeast cells: 50–60°C (122–140°F) Maximum enzymatic activity: 60°C (140°F). Start of [...]
To accurately produce high-quality, high-yield baked goods, replace guesses and opinions with hard data. Thermal profiling dough and oven temperatures with an in-transit, portable data recorder has many benefits to the commercial wholesale or retail bakery. Here are 5: 1. Consistent dough proofing The importance of proofing must not be discounted. Maintaining the consistency [...]
Thermal profiling equipment is a key tool to know how heat transfer equipment, such as ovens, dryers, proofers or freezers, operate. It doesn't really matter what type of product you make, or if you have a small or large operation. What really matters is that you are sure that your heat transfer equipment provides [...]
Brought to you by ECD Thermal profiling is an essential procedure for any top-quality bakery that optimizes baking processes. Ensuring that ovens are performing properly and that dough is reaching the desired temperatures, the thermal profiler is a must-have tool for modern bakeries. But, with the temperatures these devices will see inside the oven, protecting [...]
Why should you fine-tune your oven? Because that means you're fine tuning your product. Texture, moisture, volume, color and shelf life are all tied to how your product bakes in the oven. To fully optimize your product and process, there are parameters to monitor and control: Four Oven Baking Parameters Temperature: The most understood and [...]
Oven Air Velocity Also known as oven convective airflow What is Oven Air Velocity? Oven air velocity is defined as the flow rate of air in an oven chamber and is expressed in m/sec or ft/min. Measuring air velocity along with other oven parameters such as heat flux, humidity and temperature can [...]
