Anybody with a baking business...

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...or anybody who loved organising, please help! I'm looking for a set of storage containers for my baking ingredients such as several types of large flour containers with scoops, cocoa powder, granuated sugar, light & dark brown sugars etc. Does a set exist? All of the ones I've looked at don't have the right sizes. For instance cocoa needs a smaller container as opposed to plain flour. I'm setting up a baking business so in the process of carrying out the first step!

Do I need to buy these separately? Anybody with baking businesses, what do you use?

Thank you!

Sorry, I should mention that it will just be a small business from home, so I don't need industrial sized or anything.

Have a look at the Sistema Bakery storage containers - very sturdy and well made:

Sistema Klip It Bakery Box 3.25Ltr - CF960 - Nisbets
Sistema Bake It Box with Cup 2.4Ltr - DP646 - Nisbets

I like the OXO good grips pop containers. Lots of different sizes.

https://amzn.eu/d/6xGBWEC

I bought mine individually from Asda. They come in a range of sizes, they're airtight but easy to lock and open.

I think it's these Neoflam Food Storer 1.35L - ASDA Groceries

Thank you so much, I'm checking these ideas out. What label system do you find works the best? I was looking at chalkboard labels.

For labels I use a Brother label printer I got from a charity shop. Waterproof and stick really well

I use things like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Argon-Tableware-Preserving-Biscuit-Storage/dp/B0117P539O/

They do them in various sizes, so I have larger ones for flour and smaller for cocoa powder etc.

Labels I print myself on my laser printer. Be careful of chalk labels as they smudge quite easily!

Thank you, the printer is a little expensive, can it double up as a uniform label maker, to stick to fabric does anybody know? At the moment I buy name labels for my children's uniforms, from a company. If I could do these myself, as well as using it for the baking ingredients, it would prove more economical.

I have a mini handheld printer that allows me to print labels from my phone. The app is called Nimbot.

I am an avid baker, regularly bake 12 inch birthday cakes, do lots of sugar based decoration

I went out one afternoon and scoured the supermarkets phone camera and notebook in hand, (I’d done a bit of research on the internet) I bought all sorts of different one from a variety of shops.

I keep my flour in old ice cream tubs (1.8L) my mum gives me because they stack nicely in my pantry and I only want one bag of flour open at a time. I write the flour type in whiteboard pens on the end so I can easily wash it off and write something different if I wish.

I bake as a business but find it easier to keep stuff in original bags and then into large plastic containers, much easier to keep record for traceability if that is a thing where you are, I have to have batch number/bbd/supplier etc all recorded for each days baking as such so much easier to keep track when stuff is in it's original packaging.

You don't need anything, I've worked both as a professional pastry chef and running a cake business from home. You don't need to decant stuff, it's completely unnecessary and the EHO won't be looking for you to do it. Even as a hotel chef making kilos of rolls and cakes a day we still left the flours in their 20kg sacks within a wheeled flour bin.

do it for the prettiness factor if you like but thr most practical solution is to leave thr ingredients in their original packaging in a dry storage area. You do NOT need to buy loads of storage solutions as a small home baker. And if you leave the ingredients packaged as they arrived you don't need to worry about labelling them and you'll always have the constituents to hand.