How does a bakery schedule work?

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Anyone with experience/knowledge of general bakery schedules? Places like Fourno's, etc.

Do they bake a fresh batch of breads/pastries/cakes early morning before the shop opens, or do they keep the 'leftovers' from the previous day and bake later in the day when stock start running low ?

I guess what I am really asking is when is the best time to go in and get fresh items.
 
blunomore said:
Anyone with experience/knowledge of general bakery schedules? Places like Fourno's, etc.

Do they bake a fresh batch of breads/pastries/cakes early morning before the shop opens, or do they keep the 'leftovers' from the previous day and bake later in the day when stock start running low ?

I guess what I am really asking is when is the best time to go in and get fresh items.
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They bake fresh every morning...

But the baking schedule will be different for each bakery and each product.. maybe ask your baker what their schedule is, and arrange to get there as the stuff is coming out of the oven, then you can get fresh product every time.

I know, for instance, that my Spar bakes rolls and bread at least 3 times a day, and the last batch comes out at 5:30(ish), so I'm there at around that time when I want fresh bread or rolls
 
Bakers usually get up early in the morning and prepare fresh product for the day. A friend of mine used to be a baker in a retail store, and his day usually started at about 4 am in the morning and ended at noon
 
They work crazy hours. They usually start early morning so everything is fresh. I very much doubt good bakeries would use leftovers.
 
Sometimes one can start baking at like 1-2am, then go home at like 6-7am. Also worked where there where shifts to cater for the lunch and pick-up-on-the-way-home crowd
 
2am start at Knead in Muizenberg IICR
Best bet Blun is to ask the bakery you frequent when your fav items are put out for sale.
 
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Seems one of the best bakeries in the country is in Pretoria of all places. I mean really. who would have thought.


THE BREAD GYPSY
Call 082 458 4864
http://www.thebreadgypsy.co.za
[email protected]

The story: At the Bread Gypsy’s farm north of Pretoria, where the two wood-fired ovens are situated, slow is better. “We use old world methods; our shortest fermentation is about 18 hours,” says baker and co-owner Pauli Coetsee, who runs the bakery with co-owner and pastry chef Alicea Malan. The bakery produces a wide range of artisan bread using Eureka stone-ground flour, and burns exotic, invasive wood only in its ovens. Enjoy the smoky aroma, chewy texture and flavour of all the loaves. The epibaguette is also a favourite. Epi bread, which consists of a series of rolls interconnected to look like a stalk of wheat, is popular for picnicking, as each diner can tear off a roll without ruining the loaf.

The stockists: The Lucky Bread Company, Pretoria Boeremark and Hazelwood Food Market.

The best way to enjoy it: Serve slices of the rustic and chewy sourdough or rye with creamy scrambled eggs made with Angus’s eggs and some rashes of pan-fried bacon from Braeside butchery. For a best-ever eggs tip, use plenty of butter and a touch of milk and no cream is needed.
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Nothing trumps the original Bread Ahead in Durbs. I used to live over the road from them and woke up every morning to the smell of fresh bread...
 
DJ... said:
Nothing trumps the original Bread Ahead in Durbs. I used to live over the road from them and woke up every morning to the smell of fresh bread...
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They're not quite the same as they used to be though, but they're still bloody good.
 
DJ... said:
Nothing trumps the original Bread Ahead in Durbs. I used to live over the road from them and woke up every morning to the smell of fresh bread...
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The SO also used to rave about them. But it seems they not as hot as they used to be all those years ago.
 
Some bakeries operate 24/7. The staff works shifts.

Deliveries start at 4 in the morning. This is a bakery a friend of mine works at
 
DJ... said:
Nothing trumps the original Bread Ahead in Durbs. I used to live over the road from them and woke up every morning to the smell of fresh bread...
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+1

Driving past that place with your window open and not stopping is pure torture. Everything there is nice, also make the best pies I have ever had.
 
ShaunSA said:
The SO also used to rave about them. But it seems they not as hot as they used to be all those years ago.
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This is so but they are still ok and still quite good.
Any one know of a better place in Durbs ??
 
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