How to select a Retarder Prover

When choosing a Retarder Prover, you will need to consider the following:

• What you want to achieve
• Your end to end process and timescales
• The size and weight of your products
• The space you have available
• The power you have available

Production Quantities

Go to the beginning of the process

• Identify each product type that you want to use the Retarder Prover to produce.
• Identify the quantities of each product type that you want to use the Retarder Prover to produce.
• Identify how you are currently preparing the product and how long does it take?
• Identify how much product you need to produce on any one day/production cycle to meet your selling/despatching/serving/storage requirements?

Retarder Prover Requirements

Calculate capacity requirements

• Check the dimensions of the food/product that you want to use the Retarder Prover for.
• Identify the size of the product that you want to produce.
• Confirm the dimensions of the tray/shelf you intend to use
• Identify how many products you can fit onto a tray/shelf/?
• Identify how may trays/shelves you can fit into the Retarder Prover
  1. Pitch between each shelf = 35mm
  2. Number of shelf positions = 36
  3. Number of shelf supports supplied = 18 pairs
• How many trays/shelves/baskets will you need foreach batch of product?

Production Process

For each product type you will need to consider

• The time required for each phase:
  1. Cooling
  2. Storage
  3. Pre-leavening
  4. Leavening
  5. Retarding
• The temperature for each phase:
  1. Cooling
  2. Storage
  3. Pre-leavening
  4. Leavening
  5. Retarding
• The humidity for each phase:
  1. Cooling
  2. Storage
  3. Pre-leavening
  4. Leavening
  5. Retarding

Position

Consider where you will position the Retarder Prover

• Check Retarder Prover dimensions
• Check access route (dimensions of doors, ceiling height, stairs etc)
• Check the operating temperature of where the Retarder Prover will be situated
• How much space do you have to prepare prior to using the Retarder Prover?
• What will happen to the product once it leaves the Retarder Prover?

Power, Water and Drainage

Consider

• Your power supply and the overall power available
• Your water supply and connection, include requirement for a Water Filter
• Your drainage