Q: We’re baking garlic knots in our air impingement oven, proper together with our pizzas, however the backside of the knots are getting too darkish. Other than pulling them out of the oven slightly earlier than they totally exit the oven, is there something we will do that may right this drawback?
A: The issue you describe is because of the extreme backside warmth, which is required to correctly bake your common pizzas, so except you have got a break up conveyor, it isn’t sensible to cut back the baking time by dashing up the conveyor, and adjusting the baking circumstances is out of the query as you wouldn’t be capable of bake your pizzas whereas the garlic knots are being baked. The most effective resolution will likely be in both of the 2 following approaches:
1) Double pan the garlic knots for baking. This implies inserting an additional pan beneath the knots while you place them into the oven. The second pan will assist to cut back warmth to the underside of the baking pan, therefore decreasing the underside warmth (and, hopefully, no extra excessively darkish bottoms).
2) You would possibly attempt utilizing an Air Bake pan, out there from any grocery store or low cost home. These pans are constructed with two layers of steel on the underside, thus making a lifeless air area between the product and the underside warmth of the oven. That is similar to the double panning described above.
Query:
Now we have a possible marketplace for our dough at a close-by bar, however they need the dough already fashioned and frozen. What’s the easiest way to go about this?
Reply:
Should you don’t have already got a stroll in or attain in freezer with some further area, you could must put money into a small chest sort freezer, then get a pair dozen expanded aluminum baking screens (they don’t must be seasoned as you gained’t be baking on them) and a pair wire tree racks that you could match into your freezer. Use your common dough, and open it as much as the specified diameter, and place it onto a display, then put the display into the rack, which is within the freezer. When the rack(s) are stuffed, make a remark of the time and permit the dough skins to completely freeze for 2-hours, then switch the frozen dough skins to a meals secure plastic bag, fitted within a corrugated cardboard field, additionally saved within the freezer. Simply slide the dough skins off of the screens and stack-up contained in the lined field. As quickly because the field is stuffed (don’t stack greater than 12 to fifteen skins in a field to forestall damaging the delicate dough skins) twist the open finish of the bag to shut it, and tuck it down, alongside the dough skins to safe it. Shut the field flaps and tape closed. Place an adhesive label on the field exhibiting the product and dimension, manufacturing date, and use by date. The use by date needs to be projected 10-days past the precise manufacturing date. Commercially frozen dough can have a shelf lifetime of 12 to 20-weeks, however these doughs have been frozen at a lot decrease temperatures than your dough was frozen at. Commercially made frozen dough is frozen at -25 to -40 F, and generally even as little as -55 F, however your dough is barely being frozen at 0 F, or barely under that. The upper freezing temperature has a major, dangerous impact upon the yeast. That’s why, on this case, we’ve bought to restrict the shelf life. After you have your dough skins bulk packaged, it’s necessary to maintain them frozen at a temperature as near -5 F as doable. To make use of the dough skins, we advocate that no matter amount is required be faraway from the case and positioned immediately onto the baking tray. Enable it to take a seat at room temperature for about half-hour, then gown and bake within the regular method.
Query:
We presently use two deck ovens to make our skinny and deep-dish pizzas, however we’re considering altering over to utilizing conveyor ovens for his or her elevated manufacturing capability. Will we have to have devoted ovens for every sort (skinny and deep-dish) of pizza?
Reply:
If you say conveyor, I’m going to imagine that you simply imply air impingement ovens.
In case you are planning to purchase any of the brand new, high-efficiency air impingement ovens, there’s a chance that you’ll not must have devoted ovens for every of your two pizza varieties. I’ve personally evaluated all however one of many new technology ovens, and have discovered to my amazement that they do a superb job of baking each skinny and thick (deep-dish) pizzas facet by facet in the identical oven, on the similar time and temperature, utilizing the identical finger profile. Nonetheless, since there are such a lot of completely different dough formulations, pans, topping ideas, and many others., I can not say for positive that the oven of your alternative will bake each of your pizza varieties facet by facet, however I do know that the identical prime and backside finger profile will work for each, so on the very worst, a break up conveyor, permitting for 2 completely different baking instances, concurrently, in the identical oven chamber ought to do the trick. To make certain, I’d extremely encourage you to contact the oven firm you’re enthusiastic about and ask them for those who can check bake your dough/ pizzas of their oven at their check facility. It’s a small expense for the safety of understanding that your new ovens will certainly be set-up and profiled appropriately in your product, and carry out as anticipated proper from the beginning. I simply assisted with a start-up of a brand new, triple deck oven at Kansas State College. We did the homework, and the ovens carried out flawlessly from the beginning.
If, by probability, you might be planning to purchase older ovens, used or refurbished, you’re most likely going to want to go the devoted deck route, with one oven devoted to every sort of pizza. This is because of the truth that generally, the deep-dish pizzas will must be baked at a special time and temperature than the skinny crust pizzas.
A few issues that you ought to be conscious of: After I did the analysis of the brand new ovens, I used the deep-dish pans (darkish, anodized end) and cloud patterned baking disks for all the testing. So for those who encounter issues in baking each pizza varieties facet by facet, you would possibly need to give these a attempt to see if it really works for you. Additionally, I’d extremely advocate that you simply contemplate getting at the very least one, if not each, ovens arrange with a break up conveyor configuration. This may permit you a lot larger flexibility for baking different merchandise alongside together with your pizzas (reminiscent of breadsticks, wings, or calzones.) ?
Tom Lehmann is a director on the American Institute of Baking in Manhattan, Kansas.
