Hi Everyone.
Last time I was on here was a couple of years ago when I was looking for advice on how to make a coiled cane banneton. Well I eventually got mine made using r.pet and have been selling them for over a year now.
I'm still bread mad, and have furthered my baking passion by starting work as a night baker at a local artisan spot a couple of nights a week. Great to see the other side of the coin and learn how a professional bakery works - even if I still have to do all my calculations on scraps of paper.
I still do a little graphic design work (my first profession), so if anyone has any related questions or needs a bakery logo, just drop me a line.
Also, for anyone in the UK, I just produced my first design baker's t-shirt which you can find over at the website at http://www.breadstead.co.uk/
Or come find me on twitter @breadstead
either way, say hi :)
Mike.
... from a fellow Manc (albeit an expat currently in Brooklyn), Graphic Designer, and (obviously) baker.
Congrats on trying out the pro side of things. There is a smallish baker a few blocks from me and I have considered asking if they need any free/cheap labor just to see how everything works on the larger scale.
-Gabe
Hi Gabe.
It's definitely worth trying your hand at a real bakery. At first I thought it was going to suck all the passion right out of it for me, as it seemed very methodical and was all calculations and timings, but once you get to grips with it and can do things your own way a little more, it's still the same fun bread making. Well, it is for me anyway, as I'm left alone to do my bakes, it being the night shift.
I say go for it. You'll definitely learn something.
Mike.