Practical, no-fluff guides for home and cottage-food bakers — scaling formulas, planning bake days, and choosing the tools that actually fit a 40-loaves-a-week operation.
An honest comparison of what a micro bakery can actually use to plan production — DoughPlan, FlourPower, Cybake, Hotplate, the discontinued Castiron, and spreadsheets — plus how to choose by your volume.
Read the comparison →FlourPower is powerful — and built for bakeries doing hundreds of loaves a day. Here's an honest, side-by-side look at when it fits, when it doesn't, and the planner built for someone selling 40 loaves a week.
Read the comparison →Stop matching the stall next door. Work out your real cost per loaf, climb the COGS → wholesale → retail markup ladder, price each channel, and pay yourself — with a full worked example for a 900 g country loaf.
Read the guide →The size where a hobby turns into a business. Plan backward from market time, do the oven bake-window math that actually limits you, build the levain on time — with a full schedule and the grams worked out.
Read the guide →Every cottage food label needs six things — producer name and address, ingredients, allergens (including sesame), net weight, and your state's required disclaimer. Here's each one, with sample loaf labels.
Read the guide →Castiron is gone. Here's an honest, category-by-category look at where its sellers should land — both for taking orders and for the back-of-house production work storefronts ignore.
Read the guide →What baker's percentage really means, how to compute hydration, and how to scale a single loaf up to 40 — with worked numbers, a real table, and the mistakes that bite most bakers.
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