Saturday, July 18, 2009

Tour of the BYU Bakery

For Abby's Great Brain Project at school she decided to learn about baking because she can't wait to bake things all by herself. She aspires to be a baker one day. Abby's Uncle Keith is a baker at BYU so he pulled some strings at work and we got to go tour the bakery. This is an enormous oven with six rotating shelves. They rotate just like a ferris wheel when you press on a lever so you can fill the shelves with baking pans. The oven can bake 96 loaves of bread all at once!

This is a machine that rolls dough out flat in seconds.

This is an ENORMOUS mixer that can hold 130 pounds of dough!

This machine takes a round, flat piece of dough and cuts them into rolls in seconds.

This is a mixing bowl that mixed mint frosting in it just minutes earlier. This mint frosting is layered on the delicious BYU mint brownines. Abby's tastebuds liked it!
Here's Abby on the outside of the building after our tour. We had a great time touring the BYU baking facility. Uncle Keith was so nice to show us how to use the tools of his trade. They are building a newer facility that should be done in a few months. We hope to tour that one too!

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