Ovens

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Professional Baking
Professional Baking

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2008

  • About
Ovens are, of course, the workhorses of the bakery and pastry shop and are essential for producing breads, cakes, cookies, pastries, and other baked items. Ovens are enclosed spaces in which food is heated, usually by hot air (except in the case of microwave ovens, which are not especially useful in a bakeshop). Several kinds of oven are used in baking.

Steam is important in baking many kinds of breads, as discussed in chapter 6. Ovens used in bakeshops, including deck ovens, rack ovens, and mechanical ovens, may have steam injected into them during part of the baking cycle.