As spring arrives and temperatures begin to rise, bakeries face a similar challenge: keeping production consistent as the environment starts to warm up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warmer conditions can have a direct impact on dough performance. Higher ambient temperatures speed up yeast activity, often leading to over-proofing, stickier dough, and less control over the final product. That\u2019s where ice becomes more than just helpful \u2013 it becomes essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many bakeries use sub-cooled flake ice as a direct replacement for water during mixing. It rapidly lowers dough temperature, giving bakers better control over fermentation and consistency from batch to batch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The result is simple: more control, better product. By slowing yeast activity, ice helps prevent premature fermentation while maintaining the texture, structure, and quality customers expect. But not all ice solutions are created equal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As spring arrives and temperatures begin to rise, bakeries face a similar challenge: keeping production consistent as the environment starts to warm up. Warmer conditions can have a direct impact on dough performance. Higher ambient temperatures speed up yeast activity, often leading to over-proofing, stickier dough, and less control over the final product. That\u2019s where…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37,38],"tags":[39,40],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","category-case-studies","tag-bakeries","tag-seasonal-demand"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-systems.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}