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Chef’s Essential Appliances and Equipment to Open an Artisan Bakery in Australia

Jinal Shah

October 18, 2024
3 min read

Chef’s Essential Appliances and Equipment to Open an Artisan Bakery in Australia

We understand that opening a bakery is a dream to a lot of people, but like most dreams, it can be challenging to make this a reality. From enrolling in the right bakery or patisserie school, looking for a great business loan deal to fund your business capital, to understanding the intricacies of opening a bakery—it’s definitely not a walk in the park when you’re trying to fulfil your lifelong dream of owning a bakeshop. So, we’re here to help you out.

This article takes you through all the essentials needed in your startup artisan bakery. Here we list down all of the appliances you could possibly want or need to make sure your bakery is ready to go and become a household name in Australia.

Stand mixer – This is the number one appliance you need on your bakery equipment list. It’s an important machine that lets you combine ingredients and follow recipes for various baked goods, pies, cakes, and pastries. It’s a multi-purpose mixer with the capacity to handle different tasks, from whipping light-as-air buttercream frosting, kneading and mixing raw cookie dough, to slow mixing pie crust and yeast dough. Mixers are definitely a must-have in any bakery kitchen.

Pie warmer – Where else are you going to store and display your apple pie, cinnamon crumble pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and the other pies to entice your customers? You definitely need a pie warmer for your bakery as a convenient way of storing and displaying pies. This food display cabinet keeps the food warm without making it soggy or moist. It retains just the right amount of heat temperature, perfect for maintaining the integrity, crispiness, and warmth of any pie recipe.

Oven – Choose a convection oven with advanced features such as fine-tuned temperature settings, cooking timers, and triple levels with twice the volume capacity so you can do more baking work. Find an oven that also remains consistent in relative temperature across the different compartments to make sure that the baking process is uniform all throughout. An oven is the most basic equipment to have in your bakery because this essentially transforms all your raw recipes into sumptuous mouth watering baked goods.

Baking pans – You need a variety of shapes and sizes already stocked up in your kitchen before you even think about opening your bakery to the public. Different-sized pans give you versatility in terms of the volume of orders you will bake for the day, as well as allow you some legroom for when you try out different pie recipes and cookie recipes. The more varied your cookware and bakeware items are, in terms of shape and size, the more you can experiment with different baked products.
Piping tools – If your bakery will also feature cakes and pastries, you definitely need to have piping tools to be able to create intricate designs, shapes, and decorations on your cakes, pastries, pies, and cookies. You need icing or piping bags, various piping nozzles, and icing spatulas. Once you have these, you can offer sweet treats in your bakery with your beautifully decorated and frosted cakes, pies with cream frosting, sugar cookies with fun designs, and biscuits or pastries filled with creamy or custard filling.

With all of these things in your kitchen and your bakery store, you’ll be that much closer to achieving the dream of being the best bakery store in the city.