Automation is necessary primarily to address the industry's labour shortages and to increase efficiency. With ingredients, wages, and energy costs rising, competition increasing from retailers, craft bakers are under brutal pressure to increase productivity while maintaining hygiene.
Ever since its foundation almost one hundred years ago, Meiko has considered the craft sector a key market. It has worked with bakers to develop its pot washer range, including the recently launched Compact model.
Dishwashing equipment is very important for craft bakeries, which require a compact and versatile machine to cope with their wide range of washing requirements.
A versatile multi-purpose dishwasher is a must-have for small craft bakers, chocolatiers, and retail shops. The Meiko M-iClean UL is an ideal choice for a bakery because it has a larger-than-average 500 mm x 600 mm rack, making the dishwasher ideal for dishes, cutlery and glassware, big mixing bowls, bakery trays and crates.
The Meiko M-iClean UL was developed in response to the demand from craft bakers for a small undercounter machine that could wash dishes, cutlery, and glassware, but also the big mixing bowls, bakery trays, racks and crates used for preparing and storing goods. The Meiko Mi-Clean UL has a larger than average interior, to take a 500 x 600 mm basket capable of holding bakery trays and racks.
The Meiko M-iClean PF-S is a slimline pot-washing powerhouse developed alongside Meiko’s bakery customers to provide versatility in washing traditional bakery equipment and the new generation of lightweight pans and pots.
Optionally available with heat recovery and guaranteed to achieve the hygiene and sanitisation that bakers require, the Meiko M-iClean PF-S features a large wash chamber measuring 830 mm high. This chamber can hold everything a baker requires, including chopping boards, crates, sheet pans, and kitchen utensils.
But in response to changes in the baking industry—chiefly the increasing popularity of lightweight chopping boards, reusable buckets and containers—the compact PF-S pot washer is also available with a fold-down weighted security grid with chains that stops the lightweight items, display dishes, and reusable plastics from moving around or rotating during the powerful wash.
Heavy chains fit virtually any shape pot, pan, or bucket, holding everything nicely in place during the heavy-duty wash cycle. The Meiko M-iClean PF-S is a slimline pot-washing powerhouse for bakers that is so compact it takes up only 1 sq. metre of floor space!