Equipment, such as food glazing machines, is a major investment for any bakery or pastry shop. Foods glazing equipment helps businesses quickly and evenly apply the finishing glaze, icing and frosting to donuts or other baked goods. Pinpointing what size glazing machines your shop requires, from hand-operated glazing tables to fully automated glazing machines, aids in the everyday production.

At one end of the spectrum, glazing machines are tables equipped with screens where donuts rest while glaze pours over them and a container captures the excess run-off glaze. The more sophisticated icing machines apply continuous glaze over a conveyor belt of carrying lines of donuts without the human help. When determining which glazing machine is right for your business, consider these options:

1. Choose hand glazing machines as a space and money saver.

2. Determine whether a conveyor and line setup is the best icing machine option.

3. Look for high-end glazing machines to produce high volume and high quality product.

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Find manually operated food glazing equipment

Hand glazing machines produce a quality product without requiring a large equipment cost. Smaller single shop donut and pastry operations also benefit from using manual food glazing machines because these machines require less space than automatic frosting machines.

I recommend: Invest in a stainless steel icing and glazing table. Avalon Manufacturing offers customizable glazing tables complete with a drain, spreader and screen catch. Bake Marketing Corporation provides stainless steel options in hand glazers that capture extra glaze or icing and returns the excess to the container for reuse.

Utilize automated conveyor and line donut glazing machine systems

This glazing machinery allows a business to produce large quantities in a factory assembly-type format. The line conveyor glazing equipment utilizes conveyor belts as donut and other pastry transports through the baking and icing process.

I recommend: Order a reconditioned or used donut-glazing machine with a conveyor system from Bakery.com to save money. Consider new or used large volume baked goods glazing equipment from Bakery Production Equipment that produces and glaze up to 800 dozen donuts an hour under a waterfall glazer. Higgs Equipment offers financing and leasing options for the business seeking to purchase equipment such as a high-capacity HEC line donut glazer.

Upgrade to icing and glazing machines that incorporate heat systems

Many top-of-the-line donut glazing machines use heat to streamline the icing and glazing process. Heat system icing machines that thaw, proof or cook pastries prior to glazing allow the bakery to be more time efficient.

I recommend: Belshaw manufactures a couple of Thermoglaze icing and glazing machines that eliminate the need for vent hoods and shortening, but transforms frozen pre-fried donuts into perfectly moist and glazed donuts. The Thermoglaze models hold frozen donuts for up to five hours and produce 25 or 50 dozen donuts an hour. Take advantage of Acrivarn’s stainless steel versatile hot and cold glazing machine that uses conveyor belts to accomplish all over glazing and the capture of excess glaze and icing for later use.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Search for gently used icing and glazing machinery from closing pastry shops and bakeries liquidating the equipment to get good deals and save money on equipment.