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Professional Baking
Professional Baking

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2008

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Retail bakeries include independent bakeshops as well as in-store bakery departments in grocery stores and supermarkets. High-end supermarkets, in particular, have provided many new opportunities for creative bakers and pastry chefs. A few grocery stores have even installed wood-burning hearth ovens for baking handcrafted artisan breads.

The head baker is the worker in charge of the production in a retail bakery. The head baker is in charge of a staff that may range from a few bakers who share most tasks to, in a larger bakery, many specialists who work in different departments, such as breads and yeast goods, cakes, and decorated items. Even bread-making tasks can be divided among different workers, with some workers mixing, proofing, and making up the doughs and others baking the items and managing the ovens.

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