[Hansi]

I own a tearoom in Florida and currently hand scoop my scone dough which is labor intensive and not very fast. The scones are the most popular pastry item on our menu and I am in the process of adding online shipping of my scones to generate more revenue. I estimate that the demand will at some point require me to mechanize the hand scooping process and was wondering what type of tabletop equipment would be an appropriate substitute?

 

[foodpump]

How stiff is the batter?

My first thought would be a table top dough sweeter, the gets rolled out to your desired thickness, and then rounds or triangles are cut out.

Another simple cheap option is to weigh out a piece of dough, press it evenly in a 9” cake ring, remove the ring and cut up into pie shaped wedges.

Hope this helps

 

[foodpump]

Umm that’s a table top sheeter, spellchecker is more of a nuisance than a help.

 

[Hansi]

How stiff is the batter?

My first thought would be a table top dough sweeter, the gets rolled out to your desired thickness, and then rounds or triangles are cut out.

Another simple cheap option is to weigh out a piece of dough, press it evenly in a 9" cake ring, remove the ring and cut up into pie shaped wedges.

Hope this helps

The dough is just a tad stiffer than cookie dough. I make my scones round with a hand scooper and would like to continue with this format, just wondered if there is some kind of cookie scooping machine that might work?

 

[foodpump]

Not really... there are depositing machines for thinner batters like muffins, but the mega -factories use extrusion machines for stiffer doughs like cookies and scones that poop out a long sausage of dough that then gets sliced up.

I have imitated this process by using a regular meat grinder attachment on my Hobart and then slicing the logs. This was for smaller 11/2" dia. cookies though, nothing larger.

You can also scale the dough onto paper and form a rough log, and then use a sheetpan to squeeze a perfectly round log-similar to making herb butter logs, and then slice. However when you slice you will get clean, hard surfaces which may be great for cookies, but not very desirable for scones.

Hope this helps

 

[Hansi]

Thank you, I really appreciate your input. I guess I don't have any option to do it any other way for now unless I change the process to sheeting and cutting the scones!