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This article is a follow up of previous article titled If you have not read about my other article on How to bake Bread, I advise you read it up
The following are the basic equipment you need to start your micro bread baking business.
1.
Food measuring Scale: Scale is needed to measure correctly
your ingredients. It is important as this will give you the right combinations.
Never mix ingredients with assumptions, as this will not give you the desired
taste result. This will give you the right baker’s percentage and it is not a
joke.
2.
Oven Thermometer: This is important to measure the
thermometer of your baking oven. Fortunately, this can be added to your Oven as
a built-in. Never mind as this cost just N1000 or $5 or GHc20 extra. The
thermometer is used in measuring the temperature of your oven for maximum
baking.
3.
Bowl: You need a bowl for mixing of your dough and
ingredients when starting out. It should be a bowl that can mix manually half
to one bag of flour.
4.
Knife: You need a kitchen Knife for cutting your bread.
Very essential
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5.
Bread Pans: Bread pans are just the very essential for
bread baking. Without the bread pan, you cannot bake. Fortunately, bread pans
can be manufactured almost everywhere. It is fabricated locally and you should
have your own unique bread pan shape that will make your bread unique. To
achieve this, you need to work with your pan makers to achieve the shape. I use
the bread pan style of Ghana as I gave my sample that I was using earlier to my
pan maker and he did a wonderful job by producing a nice one. I was also to get
another bread pan shape from South Africa which my pan maker showed me and I
had to also add that to my line of bread shape. Agege bread has the same shape
and if this is the type of bread you want to go into, then you do not need any
variations. Also, pans for Dinner and bread Rolls as well as Ghana or French
long bread is different from then normal pans and are easier to produce.
Finally, pans for SPECIAL BREAD and Sliced Breads are smaller than the normal
ones used for Agege Bread. You have to be mindful of this. You need to tell
your pan fabricator what type of bread you are making so he will understand.
6.
Table: You need a table for cutting and molding your
dough into bread shape. Never start a bread baking without your table. Note
that we are not talking about a large table, but just a small table that occupy
a normal space for your business. It could be in the kitchen, backyard or mini
factory
7.
Oven: Your oven is an integral part of bread baking
business. Fortunately, you do not need to break the bank to have an oven. You can start your
business with micro oven that is also locally fabricated to standard. Bread
oven cost just N40,000 and you can start your own bread baking business. In our
bread baking class, we take you through how to construct the same oven that we
use. You do not need to panic as this is the easiest necessary requirement you
can have easily no matter where you live in your country. We will work with you
and assist you in getting your own personal oven. However, you can read up how
to start your own bread baking business without an oven of your own.
8.
Bread Nylon: Bread Nylon is essential in packaging your
own bread products. You have two choices here. If you are baking the normal
Agege or local bread, then you can used the low cost nylon which you can buy
just a lot that is enough for less than 500N or GHc10 or $3. But if you are
going into special type of bread where you want quality consumers to have your
product as well as making your product to compete in the market place, then you
need branding your bread with a quality nylon. Note that the nylon you will
also use should be according to the shape of your bread in this case. You can
go to places where you cut nylon and they are made into your own bread size
fittings.
9.
Account Book: One thing I have added to my business is
using the principle of going the extra miles. I do this by offering my bread
distributors and shops the knowledge of Financial Reporting in their business.
I ask them very simple question such as “do you have a simple account book
where you record both your sales and expenditure?” But the answer I get at all
time is something like this “I know them off by heart as they are all on my
head”. I will always then show them the need to know about the financial health
of their business. This way, they improve and when I come back again, they get
happier with me and even buy more products from me. From experience, my advice
is to have an account book for supply of your bread, recording of materials and
cost of food ingredients you bought as well as money spent in baking your
bread. This way, you are able to know the health of your bakery business. I
advise you do this right from the beginning.
10. Distribution Mechanism: This has been one of
the areas people see as challenge when starting their bread baking business. My
mentors all started with no carriage facilities. Start your own baking now.
Once you have a great product, start packing them in small cartons and giving
out to people in your areas, supply to shops in your areas and they will soon
start calling you on phone and even coming over to collect from you once the
product is ready. You can progress from here to getting means of carriage such
as Motor Bikes to Car/Van. If you have one already, then you have no reason for
excuse.
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