A better shelf life is not just the result of ingredients but how they are managed through the baking process. With no one size fits all solution for the perfect bake, Spooner’s knowledge and expertise in the baking industry and our leading commercial provers, ovens and coolers can ensure the perfect bake and maximum shelf life.
Whether artisanal or industrial bread production all breads go through proving before baking. Increasing or decreasing the concentration of a particular enzyme can change its activity during the proving process, to allow you to achieve your desired outcome. Whether it is a crusty baguette with the right chewiness, mouth feel or the soft bite of a floury bap, the right proving method can ensure this, and that your product stays fresher for longer.
Proving with Spooner
The time it takes to prove varies according to the dough, formulation and the temperature, meaning the fermentation process is critical to obtain the sought after volume. When it comes to temperature, it all depends on the bread you are making, the desired flavour and texture you seek, and of course your baking schedule.
Spooner’s range of final Provers deliver exceptional internal conditioning, covering temperature, humidity, time and airflow control providing the best possible start to your baking process.
The Spooner range includes Swing Tray Provers, Tunnel Provers and Static Provers, all of which come with steam, gas, electric or dual fuel (gas/electric) heating options and steam or water atomisation for hydration. Also available are single or two zone conditioning options giving further opportunities to enhance dough development.
An accurate and efficiently controlled single enclosure prover, capable of applying heat, cool air, humid air and de-humidifying all whilst having a variable dwell time, is essential to produce a varied range of baked products.
Want to test or develop your product first?
Spooner’s R&D test centre gives you the perfect environment to test out new or existing products and find out more about how our baking solutions can enhance your product and process.
Our facilities include:
- Provers
- Full-scale industrial oven
- Impingement cooler
- Scales and mixing
- Data recording equipment
With years of heat transfer bakery experience, our team will work with you to explore new possibilities and products, test Spooner equipment, improve processes and conduct product trials.
Our past results are why leading commercial bakeries around the world come back to us time after time, and not just in regard to bread manufacturing.
If you want to find out more about our Spooner Industrial Provers, Industrial Ovens, Industrial Coolers or Spooner Heat Recovery Systems, get in touch with Simon Rowlatt (srowlatt@spooner.co.uk) via email or call +44 (0)1943 609 505.
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