Empire Bakery Equipment

Empire Commercial Baking Equipment

Empire Bakery Equipment, founded in 1977, is a leading provider of commercial bakery equipment in the United States. Based in Hicksville, New York, the company has become prominent through advanced technologies and a dedicated team, offering high-quality ovens, dough mixers, and complete baking systems. Significant milestones include the acquisition of dough processing specialist F.W. Huber in 1985 and the importing of European dough equipment in 1986. Empire Bakery Equipment joined the Empire Group in 2023, further expanding its product range, distribution capabilities, and customer service outreach.

Prioritizing customer success, Empire Bakery Equipment delivers financing, store building, and consulting solutions to support bakeries in every step of their baking enterprise. For this purpose, the company created a group of passionate, dedicated, and experienced professionals. Empire’s Dream Builders^TM builds long-term partnerships with customers to help them thrive in their business. Overall, Empire empowers you with ideas, from planning to production and equipment, from ovens to dough mixers.

Empire Bakery Ovens

Empire Bakery Equipment offers a large selection of commercial bakery ovens to suit every type of baking. Durable construction, reliable performance, and user-friendly features are common to all Empire ovens. The brand addresses artisan and high-volume bread baking with deck ovens that use traditional stone and brisk for even heat distribution. Rack and convection ovens are perfect for pastries, and revolving ovens stand out for their consistent baking and low-maintenance requirements.

• Empire Deck Ovens: Empire Bakery Equipment specializes in electric and gas-powered stone hearth deck ovens. They provide consistent heat and artisan-quality baking for breads, pastries, and pizzas. Empire deck ovens have 2 to 4 glass doors and up to 5 decks, with individual steam generators. They accommodate up to 74 pans and promise around 500 loaves per bake. These ovens are compatible with Empire’s automatic and semi-automatic loading and unloading systems.
• Empire Convection Ovens: Empire Bakery Equipment’s electric convection ovens are ideal for bakers and chefs who wish to create a crispy, airy interior while achieving a crispy crust on bread and pastries. The busiest restaurants, cafeterias, caterers, hotels, and bakeries buy these ovens to enhance their output with up to 66 % less energy use. The color touchscreen control panel allows easy programming of 4 separate bake cycles. They hold 5 or 10 trays with an optional oven stand or proofer base.
• Empire Rack Ovens: Empire Bakery Equipment single and double-rotating rack ovens incorporate advanced features like a heavy-duty lifting system, gentle airflow, and the innovative SureFlow® Steam System. These technologies guarantee low-cost operation for high-volume bakeries and wholesale businesses. They are available in electric, oil, and gas power options, each with up to 20, 30, and 60-pan capacities.
• Empire Revolving Ovens: Empire Bakery Equipment offers revolving tray ovens in multiple categories ranging from 8 to 36 pans. Bagels, cookies, pastries, cakes, and even meats placed on trays that rotate inside the oven chamber receive even heat, ensuring consistent baking each time. Their direct-fired gas burners and digital controls produce powerful heating and consistent results. They come with a built-in Type II exhaust hood, which is convertible to a Type I.
• Empire Wholesale Tunnel Ovens: MecaMATIC™ Vapor Tube Multi-Deck Tunnel Oven is Empire Bakery Equipment’s star product. It is available in 3 or 4-deck configurations, perfect for medium to large-scale production demands. The innovative Vapor Tube technology distributes heat evenly and consistently across the oven chamber with vapor-filled tubes. The MecaMATIC provides a completely automatic baking line with a self-loader/unloader and a 12-ft (3.66 m) to 45-ft (13.72 m) conveyor belt.

Empire Bakery Dough Mixers

Empire Bakery Equipment manufactures a range of dough mixers to handle various production needs and dough types. Vertical mixers are ideal for all-purpose mixing with their planetary mixing action and multiple attachments. Spiral mixers’ powerful hooks and stationary bowl design are excellent for heavy-duty tasks like making dough for bread, bagels, and pizzas.

• Empire Vertical Mixers: Empire Bakery Equipment’s vertical mixers are all-purpose workhorses designed for different mixing tasks in bakeries. Their rotating head provides the planetary mixing action and accepts interchangeable attachments, including a dough hook, whisk, and flat beater. This design allows efficient mixing, aeration, and blending of wide-ranging ingredients. Vertical planetary mixers range from 20-qt (18.93 l) to 80-qt (75.71 L).
• Empire Spiral Mixers: Empire Bakery Equipment’s spiral mixers excel at bagels, bread, pizza, and other doughs that require strong gluten development. Empire Bakery offers 3 types of spiral mixers.

The stationary bowl mixers have 48-qt (45.44l) to 240-qt (227.64 L) bowls and finish up to 440 lb (199.58 kg) of bread dough per mix.

The removable bowl spiral mixers promise up to 660 lb (299.37 kg) with 220-qt (208.20 L) to 380-qt (359.70 L) bowls.

The tiltover spiral mixers facilitate dough discharge with a hydraulic lift system. They have 220-qt (208.20 L) bowls and produce up to 560 lb (254.01 kg) of dough per cycle.

Empire Bakery Dough Sheeters, Rounders, Dividers, Moulders

Empire Bakery Equipment delivers a comprehensive line of dough production equipment for retail and wholesale bakeries. These machines handle the dough gently to maintain the hand-made quality. The lineup includes dough sheeters for precise dough rolling, moulders for perfectly shaped French bread, dividers for accurate portioning, and rounders for evenly-sized dough balls.

• Empire Dough Sheeters: Empire offers 3 model options: tabletop, free-standing, and automatic dough sheeters. All provide reversible rollers that sheet dough on both forward and reverse passes.
• Empire Dough Rounders: Empire Bakery Equipment automates the laborious and time-consuming dough rounding task with rounders of various capacities. Models in the lineup round 1.1-oz (31.18 gr) to 70-oz (1984.47gr) portions and produce up to 5000 consistent dough rounds per hour.
• Empire Dough Dividers: Empire dividers are available in manual, semi-automatic, and fully automatic models. They have 1 to 60 divisions and process up to 44 lb (19.96 kg) of dough per divide.
• Empire Moulders: Empire bread moulders let you shape different bread types, such as baguettes, finer rolls, and long loaves. They make 1200 to 3600 loaves per hour, from 1.75-oz (49.61 gr) to 70.5-oz (1996.75 gr) pieces.

Empire Bakery Cookie Depositors

Empire Bakery Equipment streamlines and expedites cookie production with a complete line of cookie depositors. These depositors address different cookie shapes and sizes, from classic drop cookies to intricate wire-cut designs and multi-level configurations. They boost production and remove manual labor. Model options include basic tabletop units, rotary drop, and wire-cut machines. They have 7-in (17.78 cm) touchscreen control panel and save up to 200 recipes. Multiform Encrusting Machine, the newest addition, offers an amazing output capacity of 6000 pieces an hour.

Empire Bakery Bagel Equipment

Empire Bakery Equipment offers bagel kettle & hood sets and single-bank bagel machines that make evenly shaped bagels. The bagel kettles come in 25-gal or 45-gal (94.635 or 170.344 L) capacities and stand on 6-in (15.24 cm) adjustable legs. They produce up to 4000 bagels per hour. The Empire Bakery Equipment introduces its single-bank bagel machine as the quickest bagel system on the market. It boasts an hourly capacity of 3600 consistent bagels.

Empire Bakery Proofing Equipment

Empire Bakery Equipment delivers proofing solutions to create a warm, humid environment for controlled dough rising. The proofing cabinets are available in various configurations to suit different production scales.

• Empire Fermentation Tanks: These sourdough starters come in 3 tank capacities: 21.1 gal, 58.1 gal, and 142.6 gal (79.872 L, 219.932 L, 539.799 L). The tank’s lid ensures secure closing with an airtight seal.
• Empire Roll-in Proofers: The single, double, and triple-door proofers are available in roll-in and roll-thru configurations and 3 rack capacities: 5, 12, and 16. They have digital controls to set temperature from 70°F to 120°F (21.11°C to 48.89°C) and humidity from 50 to 99 %.
• Empire Proofer/Retarders: Empire Bakery Equipment’s proofer/retarders combine the function of proofing and retarding in a single unit. They provide a warm, humid environment for dough rising and maintain cooler temperatures for slower fermentation. Their 24-hour timer automatically switches between proofing to retarding modes.
• Empire Intermediate Proofers: These units are ideal for wholesale bakeries that need additional proofing stages to handle high volumes of dough for efficient processing. They hold 42.3-oz (1.20 kg) previously rounded dough in pockets at a rate of up to 3200 pieces per hour.

Empire Bakery Bread Slicers

Empire Bakery Equipment’s bread slicer line includes front-load slicers for smaller bakeries and rear-load models for high-volume applications. They have variable blade settings to provide flexibility in slight thicknesses ranging from 3/16 in (0.48 cm) to 1 in (2.54 cm). Safety shields protect users from the blade, and a large crumb tray collects bread crumbs to ensure a cleaner operation. Empire Bakery offers manual and automatic options that slice 200 to 1000 loaves hourly.

Empire Bakery Food Processor

Empire Bakery Equipment’s Roboqbo is an all-in-one food processor designed for bakeries. This multifunctional machine handles various tasks, including ice cream, ganache, jellies, jams, sauces, and whipped cream. It chops, blends, whips, emulsifies, or melts different ingredients in 2.11-gal (8 L) to 31.70-gal (120 L) bowls. It has an intuitive touchscreen control for easy recipe selection and a built-in self-cleaning system for more sanitary operation.

Empire Bakery Smallwares

Besides larger commercial machinery, Empire Bakery Equipment appreciates the significance of smaller tools in baking. These high-quality accessories complete heavy-duty tasks and enhance the workflow. The category includes:

Empire Bakery Parts and Accessories

Empire Bakery Equipment serves customers with a large bakery machine, parts, accessories, warehouse, and an extensive network of experienced technicians. It is full from floor to ceiling with around 1 million available parts, from belts and thermometers to motors and switches. The brand values continuous customer support.

Which Industries Can Benefit From Empire Bakery Equipment?

The industries that can benefit from Empire Bakery Equipment are:

• Bakeries (wholesale, retail, and in-store)
• Bagel shops
• Pizzerias
• Edibles industry
• Foodservice