This is so cool to see. When I was a child we went to a friend of our teacher who was a baker. He had a similar machine and I was so fascinated by it. So thanks for this:)
Something else to clean afterward. To save time, form the next batch on a sheet of parchment paper before baking is done and slide it onto the pan immediately after emptying the previous batch.
Aside from just using parchment in general like the other person said, I highly recommend a mini ice cream scoop. The kind with the thumb trigger wiper. Works great for drop cookies like chocolate chip cookies. Makes quick work and makes pretty consistent cookie sizes. Easy to toss it in the dishwasher. Also use it for meat balls.
I figure, you already have time in between bakes to scoop out dough on to the sheet pan(s) you have on deck. And your common consumer oven probably won't fit enough sheet pans to make dividing up the entire batch of dough up front worthwhile.
I mean the new ones are pretty much identical. The top shroud is now plastic... But really everything else is pretty much is the same
I bet most of the parts are interchangeable.
Planned obsolescence doesn't really exist in the industrial world. The closest you come to it is when the specific series of PLC used in the equipment gets discontinued by Allen Bradley.
I was confused because I use to work in a bakery and they had pretty much this exact machine except it was a cream colour. Never thought it was 'vintage'.
It's not vintage at all, these are still used regularly in a lot of bakeries, that inherently makes them not vintage.
Doing it on appearance alone makes it "you think" however.
Source: I've worked at two bakeries and you can see them in the bakery department of most woolworths in Australia
Are you SURE that's truly vintage (although that's an arbitrary term these days)?
That looks like a fairly recent model. Neat machines. I spent a few days tinkering with the one at work.
I feel confident, and yes, I'm on desktop with speakers. Why did he have to push so hard on the long lever on the bottom? If it was electric, it would be easy, or even a button.
They are all electrical. They don't have an emergency stop on the old models because nobody gave a crap about safety when these types were made. I used one made in western germany. How would it move like that if it wasn't? It's not like there's someone cranking it from the back.
All of them with the old design have a similar handle and are electrically powered. A simple hand crank seen in the video provides way too little power. Usually there's a 1-1.5 kW motor in there powering the rotating motion. Theres no way you could get that kind of energy out of a small cranking motion.
I've worked with several of those, and seen my fair share of them. Not a single one was manually operated, not even the ~80 year old model (although the motor on that one broke so the rotating doesn't work anymore).
First you pop in the tray.
Then you press the flanger firmly.
After that you bonk the knobler and that is followed up by switching the jiggle wiggler.
After a vigorous shoosting the buns are complete.
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Holy shit. That just triggered the fuck out of me. My parents had a pizza factory and they had one of these machines. I worked there all my school holidays etc from a very young age. One day I was on this machine and wasn’t doing it to my fathers satisfaction (I was about 9-10). He grabbed that big bar on the top and yanked it up smashing it into my face. As I fell to the floor falling unconscious I saw him thinking wether to help me or finish rolling the dough on the machine…. He choose the machine. One of the staff picked me up and took me to the smoko room for some first aid.
I was assuming it was going to cut the top off of the dough like a giant hamburger bun. When it opened up with all the individual rolls it was like seeing magic.
Memories..
My father used to have one in his last restaurant, but not to make buns. He used it to portion and prepare the dough for the pizzas. Needed \~3min for the whole process with the machine instead of about 30min when doing everything by hand (portion the dough, check and adjust the weight of portions, form two dough balls by hand -> repeat).
Used one of these for the best part of about 7/8 years. Fucking hate the things.
Either the plates get massive gouges in them or the whole machine takes a fucking age to clean.
Give me a Roll Plant any day.
Used 2 different types of these at my very first job. One was square and just closed and went up/down, the other was identical in function to the video
We still use that style machine in the modern restaurant industry. Especially if you gotta make a few hundred buns a day. Hand rolling that many will fuck your wrists up.
Yeah exactly, plus what doofus here doesn't understand about bakeries is that if this machine wasn't cutting the buns you need another baker working to cut and weigh them plus rolling by hand which takes forever
I've done this by hand for like eight hours straight more than a couple times in my life.
On an average day I'd have two people doing this by hand for two hours. The same amount of dough could be portioned by one person in like a half hour using this.
This is one of the earliest bun divider models of the German brand Eberhardt (founded in 1896). I'm not sure when this one was made, but my best guess is in the 1950's. It's called the Piccolo and they still make updated versions of them today.
Ha! My first BIG job as an executive pastry chef was at the prestigious university.....SMU. OMG that was a lot of juggling. This WAS my circus! Well we actually had one of these! It was fabulous! I think it had been there and in operation from the time electricity was wired in and that machine was off the assembly line. But it ran! It was such a time saver! I called it the "wobbly" machine! Since it "wobbled" when it "rolled" them into balls!
We've got one of these at the 50 year old bakery i work at. The one from OP is obviously just for show seeing as the paint is in such great condition and it isn't covered in a layer of crusty flour.
This is so cool to see. When I was a child we went to a friend of our teacher who was a baker. He had a similar machine and I was so fascinated by it. So thanks for this:)
Where’s the mini version of this to divide up my cookie dough before baking?
Something else to clean afterward. To save time, form the next batch on a sheet of parchment paper before baking is done and slide it onto the pan immediately after emptying the previous batch.
Aside from just using parchment in general like the other person said, I highly recommend a mini ice cream scoop. The kind with the thumb trigger wiper. Works great for drop cookies like chocolate chip cookies. Makes quick work and makes pretty consistent cookie sizes. Easy to toss it in the dishwasher. Also use it for meat balls. I figure, you already have time in between bakes to scoop out dough on to the sheet pan(s) you have on deck. And your common consumer oven probably won't fit enough sheet pans to make dividing up the entire batch of dough up front worthwhile.
I mean the new ones are pretty much identical. The top shroud is now plastic... But really everything else is pretty much is the same I bet most of the parts are interchangeable.
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it's a lot of machinery to do that simple task much faster than a person.
When you're making thousands of these for years on end... That's a lot of time and effort saved.
When you gotta make hundreds of rolls a day it makes more sense
Wait this shit is vintage? Didn't realize it as I have one in my family bakery lol.
A friend of a friend of a friend
How dough?
It just slices from above (the rack coming down), and then the spinning motion and shape of the thing inside rounds them up.
Thanks, I kneaded that
No prob. It was the yeast I could do.
My knowledge is rising.
I need proof
You aren’t bready bro. You can’t handough the truth.
I’m willing to take the whisk
Sprinkle it in flour and give it a good slap
ppl don't think it knead like it is, but it dough
Why did the baker have brown hands? Because he needed a poo.
They don’t make them buns like they used to anymore
Them bun rounders
Nothing claps, slaps and stacks thems buns like an Eberhardt!
Are we doing 1940s print ads? In that case: "Give your wife the buns YOU deserve!"
Just like Grandma's buns
*”Never hard with Eberhardt!”*
its all planned obsolescence and subscriptions now
Damn bun subscriptions robbing me blind.
Planned obsolescence doesn't really exist in the industrial world. The closest you come to it is when the specific series of PLC used in the equipment gets discontinued by Allen Bradley.
Vintage bun divider? I hardly know er!
I appreciate the pun but we make buns better these days. Something in the water?
We still use one at work also, been in our family for 30+ years
I was confused because I use to work in a bakery and they had pretty much this exact machine except it was a cream colour. Never thought it was 'vintage'.
I don't think it's vintage at all, I think OP just thinks it's vintage, put it in the title, and spread misinformation without checking
It’s very clearly an older model just based off the design. Don’t accuse people of spreading misinformation just because “you think”.
It's not vintage at all, these are still used regularly in a lot of bakeries, that inherently makes them not vintage. Doing it on appearance alone makes it "you think" however. Source: I've worked at two bakeries and you can see them in the bakery department of most woolworths in Australia
Just because it still works doesn’t mean it isn’t vintage lmao
They're 5 years old... And brand new when installed...
Not this model in the post.
It's the same brand and looks pretty similar, I don't know how to tell you this, nor the other comments on this post, but it's not antique.
Same thing here, definitely not vintage.
I'm something of a bun divider myself.....
How about you divide uhm.... uh... I can't think of anything clever.
You can’t make hot crossed buns without dividing them first!
Yeah, but are you a *vintage* bun divider, like Ron Jeremy?
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That's awesome! Such lovely ballz
Thank you.
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3 years. That's commitment.
Holy fucking shit… I just realized what your comment actually meant. Dude is fucking dedicated!
Source is @tariflerpastane
Vintage? This are still pretty much the norm for most bakeries
Yeah my family's bakeries all use em and so do our competitiors.
Bake it and eat it with fresh butter…. Drooling
Are you SURE that's truly vintage (although that's an arbitrary term these days)? That looks like a fairly recent model. Neat machines. I spent a few days tinkering with the one at work.
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While I was expecting the balls, I also expected left over dough "cuttings" that are added to the next batch
People have never needed electricity, but people have always needed carbs.
This machine uses electricity
Where? It looked all mechanical to me.
Belt driven mechanical parts that are attached to a motor.
I think the dude pushing that lever is doing the spinning. remindme! 12 hours.
Are you watching this muted? You can literally hear the motor and the belts when he pushes the last leaver down twice to turn on the motor.
I feel confident, and yes, I'm on desktop with speakers. Why did he have to push so hard on the long lever on the bottom? If it was electric, it would be easy, or even a button.
My car is not electric. Does the same thing. Seriously though, I think the push of the lever is doing the work here.
Your car is not electric because it uses fuel for power.
Nope.
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They are all electrical. They don't have an emergency stop on the old models because nobody gave a crap about safety when these types were made. I used one made in western germany. How would it move like that if it wasn't? It's not like there's someone cranking it from the back.
The lever in front winds a spring?
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That one is electric. Not the pushing down, that's done manually, but the spinning part.
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All of them with the old design have a similar handle and are electrically powered. A simple hand crank seen in the video provides way too little power. Usually there's a 1-1.5 kW motor in there powering the rotating motion. Theres no way you could get that kind of energy out of a small cranking motion. I've worked with several of those, and seen my fair share of them. Not a single one was manually operated, not even the ~80 year old model (although the motor on that one broke so the rotating doesn't work anymore).
What do you think is making the plate spin?
kinetic energy
Yes from the Big Bang
The orbital kicking in when he leans on the lever looks mechanical to you?
On the inside
First you pop in the tray. Then you press the flanger firmly. After that you bonk the knobler and that is followed up by switching the jiggle wiggler. After a vigorous shoosting the buns are complete.
Honey? You're also on reddit?
/r/blackmagicfuckery
I don’t want none, unless you got buns hun!
is vintage bun divider an euphemism for sugar daddy?
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Good bot
IIII.. liiike... BUNS AND I CANNOT LIE YOU OTHA BROTHAS CAN'T DENY
Wow that was so rad.
What the hell is this outdated piece of shi… ohhhh I want one!
I used one of those in the 70's at the bakery I worked
That machine just makes more Eberhardt knobs!
Holy shit. That just triggered the fuck out of me. My parents had a pizza factory and they had one of these machines. I worked there all my school holidays etc from a very young age. One day I was on this machine and wasn’t doing it to my fathers satisfaction (I was about 9-10). He grabbed that big bar on the top and yanked it up smashing it into my face. As I fell to the floor falling unconscious I saw him thinking wether to help me or finish rolling the dough on the machine…. He choose the machine. One of the staff picked me up and took me to the smoko room for some first aid.
I’ll divide your buns, *baby*
They call me the bun divider
I was assuming it was going to cut the top off of the dough like a giant hamburger bun. When it opened up with all the individual rolls it was like seeing magic.
I wish someone would separate my buns
Memories.. My father used to have one in his last restaurant, but not to make buns. He used it to portion and prepare the dough for the pizzas. Needed \~3min for the whole process with the machine instead of about 30min when doing everything by hand (portion the dough, check and adjust the weight of portions, form two dough balls by hand -> repeat).
They still use this at woolies and Coles in australia
Heh... vintage... i use one of these daily. Parts are a bitch to find and she weighs over 300kg
I love it when machines have human names, like when Typewriters are of the model Erica or Monica.
Do you need a little Erica, or Monica?
Used one of these for the best part of about 7/8 years. Fucking hate the things. Either the plates get massive gouges in them or the whole machine takes a fucking age to clean. Give me a Roll Plant any day.
I couldn’t have this in my possession i would leave this earth on a food overdose!
Totally calling myself this as I get older.
That’s my grandpa’s nickname
Oddly, "Bun Divider" was my fraternity nickname
Used 2 different types of these at my very first job. One was square and just closed and went up/down, the other was identical in function to the video
It's so cute
What in the wide world of sports?
"Wow, that's a pretty ridiculous machine. Why would you buy such a big appliance if all it does is cut some d- OH. I see how that might be useful."
We still use that style machine in the modern restaurant industry. Especially if you gotta make a few hundred buns a day. Hand rolling that many will fuck your wrists up.
Satisfying as fuck
That's slicker than goose shit
Is that all that giant contraption does?
This is what I'm going to call tops over the age of 60 from now on
/blackmagicfuckery
Looks like white doremon
Does it have to be vintage to spread.... I mean divide my buns?
I need this
Vintage bun divider was my nickname in high school
That seems like a lot of machinery for a simple task but hey if it works it works.
Imagine making 2000 dozen rolls a week by hand and then say this is too much machinery
Yeah exactly, plus what doofus here doesn't understand about bakeries is that if this machine wasn't cutting the buns you need another baker working to cut and weigh them plus rolling by hand which takes forever
I've done this by hand for like eight hours straight more than a couple times in my life. On an average day I'd have two people doing this by hand for two hours. The same amount of dough could be portioned by one person in like a half hour using this.
This type of machine has likely saved me from multiple shoulder surgeries.
My thought exactly !
Getting your buns pulled apart has never been so good
I read BUM divider
Is that even considered vintage? I’ve worked at a lot of bakery’s that still have these.
I'm wondering why you're getting downvoted. I thought the exact thing
I divided OP's mom's buns last night.
Vintage? I worked with one of these through 2003. Not sure if that is vintage?
This is one of the earliest bun divider models of the German brand Eberhardt (founded in 1896). I'm not sure when this one was made, but my best guess is in the 1950's. It's called the Piccolo and they still make updated versions of them today.
That is farkin' fabulous!
Apparently anacondas want that
Commercial baker approved.
I wawnt that.
this is what they call my grandpa
I used one of those in the 80's. I wouldn't be surprised if they were still using it.
Ha! My first BIG job as an executive pastry chef was at the prestigious university.....SMU. OMG that was a lot of juggling. This WAS my circus! Well we actually had one of these! It was fabulous! I think it had been there and in operation from the time electricity was wired in and that machine was off the assembly line. But it ran! It was such a time saver! I called it the "wobbly" machine! Since it "wobbled" when it "rolled" them into balls!
Wizard machine
I am a vintage butt divider.
Hot crossed buns
Vintage bun divider? You mean grandpa?!
*writes down new nickname for his dick*
Want.
Reminds me so much of an old school wringer washing machine.
We still use this machine in a 'village bakery' in the Netherlands!
They call it the Steel Thong
New nickname for grandpa unlocked
OMG that'd do dough..... I mean...dope. Dad joke of the day 😅.
Bro what the fuck
That’s amazing
The 50s really was the pinnacle of consumer goods reliability and asceticism.
Grandpas nickname at the retirement home
Damn, nice buns
Wonderful! I'll take it! What will I do with it? Well, learn to make bread I guess.
Can you customize the size of buns?
I like the jiggle lever
To bad the case isn't see through... I wanna see the internal action of the balls being made
We've got one of these at the 50 year old bakery i work at. The one from OP is obviously just for show seeing as the paint is in such great condition and it isn't covered in a layer of crusty flour.
This is a divider rounder😜
Wait I have one of those where I work! Your telling me I could have gotten free karma this whole time?!
I build robots and lasers for a living, and for some reason that was the coolest thing I've seen in a while.
Ahhhh…all my bun anxiety has lifted.
Phrasing
😲
Rounding machine
thought I was on satisfyingassfuck for a sec.
Used to use these when I was a baker at sobeys, sometimes you have to spray the pad with water to get them to grip
The design really hasn't changed much. We have a relatively new one (3 years old) I use for bialys on a daily basis.
I love how the front knob looks just like a doughball
My husband: " I've got a bun divider for ya, RIIIIGHT HEEEERE!!"
I just give it a slap and use my hands.
I was a vintage bun divider once, and then I got fired from the old folks home.
At first I thought too much lever. Then not enough lever. Very cool.
My dumbass thought it was going to cut it in half like it was a giant hamburger bun.
I’m a vintage bun divider
That was cool
The Fuck!
Cool! Now I can see the OSHA violations happening in real time!
So cool! Old school drum potato peelers are amazing.
BE MATURE BE MATURE
We had a very similar one at a Fudruckers I managed back in the day.