This is for you if you are running a bakery, a pizza, cake, and pastry business, or planning to start one of those. Baking is artistic allowing bakers to have enough room for creating amazing treats for their clients such as cakes, muffins, biscuits, and different types of bread, pizza, and more. For this purpose, it is necessary to have a planetary mixer, a spiral dough mixer with a hook, or both machines. It is often difficult to decide which one is the most appropriate for your facility, so we explain the uses, advantages, and features that differentiate commercial planetary mixers and commercial spiral mixers.

Spiral Dough Mixers

Spiral Dough Mixers are vastly used in large bakeries and pizzerias primary for mixing bread doughs and pizza crusts. Its key features are the rotational movement of the pot together with the spiral hook, which makes only on part of the dough to work while maintaining low friction heat, and providing a more consistent mixture. It is still a versatile machine, even without interchangeable accessories, because depending on each one’s creativity, you can still develop different types of dough for cakes, cookies, muffins, and more.

Planetary Mixers

Planetary Mixers are very versatile making them very essential in small bakeries and patisseries. They come with a variety of attachable accessories allowing the preparation of different types of dough and baked products

Planetary Mixer Accessories

• Dough Hook: Used to knead bread doughs, cakes, pizzas, croissants, cookies, etc. 
• Mixing paddle: Used for mixing creams, cakes, etc.
• Whisk:  Used to beat egg whites, whipped cream, mayonnaise, soft creams, etc.

Bakers should assess their current kitchen space, dough mixing needs, and production volume as well as consider any projected future demand. In selected cases, bakers may need to add planetary and spiral dough mixers to their kitchen equipment inventory. Especially bakers that are busy and produce large amounts of goods could benefit from having both kinds on hand. Also, bakers who might want to try offering different types of foods in addition to specialty bread and baked goods may want to use both a planetary mixer and a spiral mixer in their day-to-day production

We, therefore, encourage you to fully review your needs when choosing a commercial dough mixer, as choosing the wrong type or size can slow down your business operation. Still unsure? Contact us on +254 713 444 000 or +254 713 777 111