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The Night Bake

At Baker Tom’s Bread, we use traditional baking methods to make our fresh speciality loaves. Using only flour, water, yeast and salt, and time (to allow the bread to rise and prove naturally), our skilled team of bakers work through the night hand-moulding and baking our range of loaves. We pride ourselves on producing the best quality products that are full of natural flavour and simply delicious.

We don’t use any flour ‘improvers’, processing aids, dough conditioners, chemical leavening or other artificial additives of any kind (with the exception of the statutory fortificants already in flour).

If you were to pop your head into the bakery in the middle of the night, the smell of freshly baked bread fills the air and is good enough to eat!

We work throughout the day, taking orders, calculating the mixes required and preparing for the busy night ahead. Most of our pastries, scones and cakes are also baked in the day.

Working through the night, the production is split into different stages to ensure all our shops and wholesale customers receive their freshly baked bread on their doorstep the next morning. See the process below …

How We Bake

Preparing for the bake

Orders are sent through from the sales team before 5pm, and the Bakers tally the orders.
Weighing the ingredients

Once the final orders have been calculated, the Bakers weigh what is needed for the night ahead.
Mix, knead and shape

The dough is created by mixing and kneading all the ingredients together and moulding into shape. The Bakers complete this by hand.
Resting & proving

The bread is left to rest and prove, allowing it to rise slowly, ready for baking. Our sourdoughs have longer, more complex processes.
Baking

The handcrafted loaves are baked to a golden crust – just how our customers like it!
Cooling & packing

After a busy night of baking, the bread and rolls are left to cool before they are packaged and labeled, ready for delivery.
Loading the vans

Our fleet of drivers and vans are ready and waiting to load their vans for a busy morning of deliveries.
Morning deliveries

Our Baker Tom drivers travel across Devon and Cornwall to deliver orders, so our wholesale and shop customers can enjoy our freshly baked bread daily.
Morning bread

Our shop and wholesale customers can enjoy deliciously fresh loaves Monday – Saturday; baked the way they should be.