Just as freshly baked goods are important to any business that sells food and beverages, dividers and rounders are important to any business that sells baked goods. A bakery divider is a machine that cuts evenly sized pieces of dough to form rolls or loaves of bread. A bread rounder is a machine that forms the dough into a round shape. A rounder divider machine does the work of both. It divides the dough into pieces and shapes it into round loaves or rolls.

You may need to seriously consider a number of factors before making the investment in dough dividers and rounders. A bakery divider might be a nice tool to have to make your bread making easier, but you can still divide the bread by hand if necessary. As you evaluate whether to purchase a divider and rounder for dough, consider:

1. How much use the rounder divider would get on a daily basis.

2. The size of the unit and whether it would fit into your kitchen.

3. The cost of the rounder divider and how long it would take for you to recover your investment.

Action Steps
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Find a bread divider that's right for your operation

If you make a lot of homemade rolls to either sell fresh in bulk or to serve with meals, you may want to purchase a bread divider. It can easily be set to make the rolls the exact size you want them.

I recommend: AMF Bakery has a number of bakery dividers. You can choose the right bread divider for your bakery operation from the Ayash Engineering website.

Take the bakery divider one step further with a bread rounder

With some rolls, it doesn't matter if they're perfectly round. With other rolls, their appearance is less than perfect if they aren't round. If you sell a bread product that should be round, consider purchasing a bread rounder machine.

I recommend: You can find specialty bread rounders on the pro BAKE website. If you're looking for a commercial-size bread rounder, check out what the Bakery Equipment Specialists have to offer.

Purchase a rounder divider machine

If you're operating a commercial bakery, or if you want your yeast rolls to be uniform, then you should consider a bread divider rounder. These machines are large but they do the work of both the bread divider and the bread rounder.

I recommend: Erika Record offers a complete line of dough dividers and rounders. Gemini Bakery Equipment Company has bread divider rounder equipment that can make all sorts of bakery items.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  You can use a bakery rounder divider on dough other than yeast dough. Some bread rounders can be set extra thin so you can make tortillas with them. Others can make items with large diameters; you could run pie dough through them.