Commercial Deck Ovens

In contrast with a conventional option with multiple trays, like a combi steam oven for example, Commercial Deck Ovens offer independent baking environments across each level. This means you can adjust the temperature settings and function, giving you the capability to bake a multitude of products, from sourdough or everyday loaves to delicate pastries.

Depending on the deck oven you choose, you could have anywhere from one to three independent decks, making it simple to prep everything for the day, or to bake multiple things at once. Equally, with such a controlled environment, you’ll always get the reliable and consistent heat that baking demands in order to get delicious results each and every time.

Depending on the menu you’re offering and what kind of volume you need, there’s a multitude of options that are suitable for small cafes through to large bakeries. Cafes looking to create their own in-house bread for sandwiches, or whip up breakfast croissants will likely be fine with a single deck oven. While they facilitate baking one batch at a time, you can typically fit more than one bread pan or tray in a single deck.

When it comes to bakery equipment, the more spacious models with multiple decks are ideal. Bakermax is one of the most popular brands in this category, offering models with greater tray capacity and higher power output. They make it easy to bake batches evenly and efficiently, while still delivering exceptional results.

Deck ovens are a great option for trying new recipes and creating new bread types. Their variable settings, solid insulation, temperature read-out functionality and even stone soles help with getting superior results, even when you’re trying something new. Perfect bread requires either a crisp crust, or a perfectly soft but golden brown edge and a fluffy texture inside - you can achieve both with Commercial Deck Ovens.

For pizzerias, both Commercial Deck Ovens and conveyor ovens offer convenient, reliable, consistent baking. Conveyor pizza ovens in particular are great for higher turnover, while also reducing the amount of staff intervention required to get things baked. You can achieve perfectly melted cheese, get a golden crust - whether that’s a thin and crispy base or a thicker base, and still achieve that gourmet look, feel and - of course - taste.

Depending on what you’re cooking, Commercial Deck Ovens can be an exceptional option for rapid cooking and baking, with many featuring incredibly high maximum temperatures of up to 500℃. They also have air circulation that ensures everything is evenly cooked or baked, keeping the moisture at the centre of your loaves while achieving beautifully crisp results for things like sourdough and getting the perfect browning on flaky pastry.

Deck ovens are designed for continuous, high-volume use, without the need to wait long periods between batches for the decks to recover. With large cooking surfaces and multi-deck configurations, it’s easy for kitchen staff to load several trays at once, before unloading and adding the next batch in their place after. When it comes to Commercial Deck Ovens, you can expect fast heat recovery, intuitive controls, and durable construction with drop-down doors for easy access when you need to remove things from the oven.

While Commercial Deck Ovens are an exceptional choice for baking bread, pastries, and pizzas, their versatility doesn’t stop there. If you’re running a restaurant and want to prepare anything from roast vegetables to desserts. And, with multiple decks, you can do both at the same time, or operate each section independently. They facilitate more experimentation for your chefs, while also helping you prepare food quickly for rush hours.

If you’re preparing dough - whether that’s for bread or pizza - we recommend setting up a designated dough prep station near your deck oven. That way, you can streamline moving sheeted pastry straight from the pastry sheeter, or proved dough out of the dough prover, into a pan and into the oven. This not only creates a natural flow when it comes to food prep, but also makes clean up easier. You may want to have everything near a pizza prep fridge, too, so you have a designated space to get toppings onto your bases before baking them.