Have you ever seen the cable show, "How It's Made?" We got to see it live and in person, sort of, when we visited a local bread bakery. They weren't actually taping anything for tv but the process was very similar to what you see on the show.Heiner's Bakery was started by Charles Heiner in 1905. He started in a hotel room but the bakery now covers an entire city block. They bake 9,000 loaves of bread per hour! The system is so automated that human hands scarcely touch the bread. The dough drops by loaf or bun sized mounds and follows a series of conveyor belts through rolling, kneading, rising, baking, bagging, and tagging. It's then loaded on trucks and distributed to four states, up to 250 miles away.
We finished our tour with some freshly baked bread and a healthy appreciation for the work that goes into putting those packages on our store shelves. I was going to recommend that you try Heiner's bread, but I can't imagine that anyone who lives close enough to get it hasn't tried it, and loved it, already.
For bread related lesson plans, visit the Heiner's Bakery Educational Bites page. They have tons of info and fun stuff to do for every subject.
3 comments:
That sounds like a great field trip. I'd love a trip like that where machines do most of the work like that. I find it facinating. Now you've got me thinking I should find some place to go. We have Nalley Pickles here locally...maybe they have tour opportunities. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, I bet that was one great-smelling field trip! (Almost as good as visiting your friendly neighborhood maple syrup boiler ;-)
totally cool field trip!! :) yummy too....
and we LOVE that show btw.....
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