My New Love

I found a new love.

Bakers are a funny breed.  Well at least this baker is.  Our ovens become a partner with quirks, moods and personality.  Each oven is a little unique and I am always apprehensive when I enter into a new oven relationship.

Today was a big day.  I left my oven partner, “Thor”, the love of my baking life the last few years.  He lived in the commissary kitchen that we rented.  “Thor”was a big, burly Italian rotating oven that never let me down.  Problem was he belonged to another and it was time for our cookie business to find a home of our very own.

Enter “Duke”, my new baking love.  He isn’t nearly as big and burly as “Thor”.  In fact he is a rather stumpy single deck oven.  “Duke” doesn’t rotate, but he has something none of my previous oven partners had.  He lives in the new production kitchen that Mike and I created and he is all OURS.  I am in love with all of his stumpy  glory.  I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.