How do commercial bread makers like Sara Lee and Pepperidge Farm get their loaves to turn out in a uniform size and shape every time?

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How do commercial bread makers like Sara Lee and Pepperidge Farm get their loaves to turn out in a uniform size and shape every time?

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Answer 1

The short answer is “batch processing”, and “quality control”.

Commercial bread makers bake dozens of loaves at a time from the same big batch of dough. Since it was the same batch of dough that was used, and the loaves are all being baked at the same time in the same oven, the loaves *should* be identical. A small handful of the them will be under- or over-sized, and they will just be discarded, so *the loaves that remain* are uniform.