Baking of bread had been ancient practice. A skill anyone could learn from bakeries and catering schools. It has been advantage to most people who know how to make read at home. However, that is different with factories producing bread for daily consumption.
This post will be discussing the great difference in home baking of breads and that made from automated factories producing bread for daily consumption and areas the practice has aided the economy generally.
Difference Between Home Baked And Factory Baked Breads
Though not every family bake bread at home, some large ones with the skill and necessary tools will prefer baking bread at home than otherwise because of the choice of making the bread according to their nutritional demands and taste. This implies that home baked breads can come in varying nutrients and taste.
The home baked bread can come in varying sizes according to the baker’s choice. Meanwhile, the factory breads are of uniform size, shape, and taste due to the mass production strategies in factories.
Home baked breads usually have higher quality than factory breads. This is a simple fact that may not be argued. Family baked breads have higher quality become they are not producing to make profit rather producing to consume at home for that reason, the bread could have all the vital and extra ingredients in it.
On the other hand, the factory baked breads have better finishing and packaging than home baked bread,
The factory baked breads can be cheaper than hoe baked breads of similar size and quality due to the mass production techniques.
Factory baked breads last longer in terms of storage than home baked breads due to the use of appropriate preservatives.
Factory baked breads come in various uniform sizes which could mean different quality and taste. This helps anyone to make choice of bread according to their purchasing power.
Factory breads come with brand name of the producer unlike the home baked breads.
How Factory Baked Breads Are Helping The Economy
Because of the increase in flour price and other baking ingredients, baking bread at home is no longer as cheap as it used to be this has made a lot of families to depend on the factory baked bread.
When it comes to factory baked breads there are two categories available which are:
The local bakeries and the automated baking factories.
The first could be baking within 100 to 1000 pieces of bread while the second could be baking from 1000 pieces of bread and above per day. The great difference is the number of breads produced in a day.
Automated bread making factories are the most sorted after by most distributors due to the ability to supply varying sizes, and qualities at uniform range. This makes it ideal for large cities with high number of consumers. However, the local bread making factories known as local bakeries can serve a full community, village, and streets with their daily supply but such may not be enough to go far to other areas due to limited quantity in their supply.
Due to the system of mass production adopted by the automated bakeries their bread seems to sell relatively cheaper than those made in local bakeries. This has for a great extent reduced the cost of bread generally.
The price competition introduced by automated bakeries has also helped the economy by forcing existing bakeries to minimize cost of production and improvise the raw materials at their disposal.
The automated bakeries large quantity of production and varying quantities has introduced another chain of business for distributors who can be as many as possible. This implies that many investors can become the bakery distributors and make their daily earning from the products produced in the factory.
Limitations of automated Bakeries
Some of the limitations include:
Lack of stable power supply.
Lack of enough raw material to keep the factory running as expected.
It cost a lot of finance to setup an automated bakery.
Only few automated bakeries can be found in most countries and such ones are only available in the cities.
Due to mass production, sometimes it could be difficult to make special breads customized for certain occasions.
Benefits of automated bakeries
Automated bakeries has lots of benefits which include:
High profits per day due to high number of breads produced per day.
The factory needs only few workers, thereby saving money for labor.
The factory can hit the daily target of production before the closing of the day which helps the equipment and machines to rest and save the cost of energy consumption.
The factory’s bread brand name can become popular easily due to the wide range of markets covered by their products.
The factory can take on contracts of mass production of bakery products for other brands.
The factory can be able to compete effectively with any existing bakery name in the market.
Summary
Baking of bread is a full time job that are currently feeding millions of individuals either as entrepreneur in the business or worker in an established bakery. The use of automated bakery is just an advancement from the existing local bakeries. You can now understand how this advancement impacts to the current economy globally and how you can become a beneficially of it.
