Properly showcasing your baked goods is essential to any successful bakery or cafe. Enticing customers with beautiful displayed cakes, pastries, sandwiches, and other baked goods will compel them to purchase your items. Baked items contain eggs, milk, cream, and other ingredients that are prone to spoiling if left at room temperature (around 25 degrees Celsius) for too long. For baked goods to retain their delicious taste, form, and water content, they need to be stored in a specific humidity setting.
The optimum temperature of a bakery display fridge for most baked items ranges from 0 to 4 degrees Celsius. The temperature will vary depending on whether the bakery display case is for displaying delicate cakes with a higher moisture level, which do better kept slightly cooler than more dense baked goods such as sandwiches and breads with a lower moisture level.
Delicate cakes and pastries will freeze if kept below 0 degrees Celsius, which can lead to a loss of moisture and a change in texture. Any temperature above 4 degrees Celsius may encourage the growth of bacteria and mould.
It’s important to monitor the temperature of your display fridge regularly. Familiarise yourself with the control panel on your unit to make it easier to set and check the temperature required. The temperature of the bakery fridge should be checked at least once a day, and any changes should be addressed immediately, to ensure the integrity of your baked goods.
Ambient bakery displays, or non-refrigerated bakery cases, are perfect for storing breads, bagels, and other goods that don’t require refrigeration.
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