If you’re a commercial bakery, having an oven that efficiently and evenly bakes the product is key to success. Heat flux is a valuable tool used to analyze heat transfer within ovens – allowing bakeries to understand precisely how their products are being baked to make informed decisions about product quality. With the help of detailed analysis provided by heat flux technology, bakers have been empowered with unprecedented control over production temperature accuracy and consistency to create the highest-quality finished goods possible. To produce accurate readings with heat flux in commercial bakery ovens, however, you need to use dedicated tools capable of providing reliable and accurate data.
This is where Reading Thermal comes in. Our solutions are designed to detect, measure, and monitor heat flux in commercial bakery ovens, allowing bakeries to see detailed profiles of their oven environments. This information is critical for adjusting the oven settings and conditions to suit their needs and optimizing their production processes for maximum efficiency and accuracy. With Reading Thermal, bakers can be confident that the heat flux within their ovens is being monitored and tracked in real time – allowing them to bake high-quality products with greater consistency.
Why Is Heat Flux Important?
Heat flux measures the rate at which energy is transferred through an oven wall or material by three different modes: convection, radiation, and conduction. How heat is transferred, how much it transfers, and the duration it is transferred define the characteristics of any given baked good processed through a particular oven.
Heat distribution directly affects the quality of the product and its overall consistency. To ensure uniform heat distribution, bakeries must monitor heat flux to ensure that all oven zones attain the same temperatures and that heat is transferred efficiently and evenly.
Standardizing Heat Flux Profiles
It’s important to note that commercial bakeries aren’t necessarily always going to use a single model for their ovens. Different models have different variables, affecting the heat flux profile and resulting in batches produced by different ovens with different characteristics. Having multiple ovens likely means that each oven will be made by a different manufacturer, which means their environments and conditions will be unique compared to the other ovens.
Consistency is everything in baking, and irregularity in batches influences the customer experience and ultimately leads to a loss of revenue. This is why having an accurate heat flux reading is so important – it allows bakeries to identify any variance in performance between ovens and adjust accordingly. This ensures that their products are baked evenly and to the proper standard, helping them produce the highest-quality product possible.
Accounting for the variables of multiple oven environments is impossible without the right tools to measure, compile, and analyze the conditions accurately. The SCORPION® 2 Heat Flux Sensor helps shed light onto your heat flux profiles, yielding a precise profile by running the length of your baking process and analyzing the heat flux across different ovens. With its advanced data-gathering capabilities, the SCORPION® 2 can detect minute changes in the oven environment and report back in real-time – giving you more control over how your products are being baked.
Controlling heat flux in commercial baking ovens is critical for increasing efficiency and maintaining consistency in the finished product. Thankfully, precision and accuracy in baking are what Reading Thermal excels at. If you’re interested in our services, call us at (610) 678-5890 Ext. 2, or contact us online for more details about our innovative products.