Clearance: Rofco B5 Brick Bread Oven

Clearance: Rofco B5 Brick Bread Oven

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Made in Belgium, Rofco electric stone ovens offer the home baking enthusiast a line of genuine stone ovens with space-friendly footprints, cleanly and conveniently powered by electricity. Available in models with one, two or three baking shelves made of 35mm-thick Chamotte stone, Rofco's vertical design means there's room for a Rofco electric stone oven in your kitchen.

Rofco ovens represent the ancient masonry oven brought forward to the modern age. Also known as retained-heat ovens, masonry ovens store a great amount of heat energy in their stone construction before food is introduced. Energy is then released to the food by conductive, radiant, and convective transfer. A conventional kitchen oven uses only convection (air circulation), which is far less effective than the conductive (direct contact) and radiant (like the sun's rays) heat-transfer modes that a stone oven makes powerful use of.

A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

World renowned restaurants prefer masonry ovens for the depth of flavor they create in foods. Bread and pizza results are simply spectacular.

Once bread dough is slipped into the oven, baking time is typically only half that of a conventional oven. Steam is sealed in by the Rofco’s silicone-gasketed door, maintaining humidity that promotes a rapid dough-rising burst called oven spring, as heat transfers rapidly by direct contact (conduction) with the thick Chamotte stone the dough rests on.

Available steam trays can be used in each baking chamber. Water is poured into these trays. Filled with sections of stainless steel rod, they instantly release copious volumes of supplemental steam exactly as the steam injection system does in a commercial stone deck oven. When dough rising is complete, vents in the Rofco’s door can be opened to allowing steam to escape for the last phase of baking. Penetrating radiant heat combines with the Rofco oven’s perfect humidity, forming a caramelized crust that’s delightfully crunchy with satisfying chew and deep, complex flavor. Meanwhile an open, tender crumb structure is formed throughout the interior of the loaf by the perfectly even heating that only a stone oven provides.

OH THE PIZZA, THE PIZZA!

Do you like pizza at all? We love pizza. Deep dish, or with a thin, crispy crust, we love it all. What we didn't love was the chasm that used to exist between what came from the super-hot stone ovens of our favorite pizzerias, and the sad and soggy facsimiles from our conventional home ovens. That disappointment is in the past now, because the Rofco is full-fledged pizzeria-class. Perfectly crisp thin crusts. Perfectly bubbly cheese. Perfectly roasted meats and veggies. Perfectly awesome pizza.

BEST OF OLD AND NEW

For thousands of years, building up the all-surrounding heat to work such culinary magic meant building a wood fire inside your masonry oven, letting the fire eventually die out, then scraping out the smoking ash and mopping the oven’s floor so you could put your dough in. Also, retaining enough heat to last through one or more baking cycles required a structure that could weigh a thousand pounds or more. Those aren't characteristics that incorporate well into a contemporary home kitchen. The modern conventional oven solved the fire-building and massive bulk problems, but traded away food-heating qualities that mankind had enjoyed for millennia.

Rofco ovens combine modern technology with all the best qualities of the retained-heat stone oven, for sublime baking results without the wood, fire, smoke, ash, soot, and massive surrounding structure. Dough has no idea how the wonderful heat that it receives from oven stones was created, and the Rofco creates its heat with the cleanliness and convenience of electricity. Two thermostatically-controlled heating circuits allow you produce all the heat you want, with all the convenience you need.

Structurally, the Rofco oven gets its form and strength from a robust stainless steel cabinet, and a half-ton of extra stone mass is now replaced by the marvel of rock wool insulation. Made by spinning fibers from molten minerals, rock wool resists temperatures of over 2000° F. (hotter than your Rofco will get!) and has great insulating efficiency. Thick, high density rock wool insulation board fills the walls and door of the Rofco oven, keeping heat contained in the thick stone baking surfaces of the oven where it works its wonders on your bread and other baked goods. And while those wonders are taking place, you can watch the show through your Rofco’s viewing window, illuminated by an interior lamp.

BAKES EVERYTHING BETTER

Speaking of other baked goods, Rofco stone ovens are by no means restricted to use with bread and pizza! Roasts, steak, vegetables, pies, you name it: The omni-directional heating of the Rofco stone oven makes everything superior.

Think about how the baking results from a microwave oven compare to those from a conventional oven. Atrocious, right? The reason for that difference is the unevenness of the microwave’s heating action. Now consider the fact that draftiness—a fair description of convection-only heating—is how conventional ovens are actually designed to work. "Drafty" is not "even". A retained-heat stone oven, on the other hand, which bakes mainly with direct-contact and radiant heat, is the very definition of evenness. So just picture an oven that’s as much better than a conventional oven, as the the conventional oven is better than a microwave. That's what it's like to bake with a Rofco stone oven.

A STONE OVEN FOR EVERYONE

Rofco's model B5, B10 and B20 stone ovens have the same dimensions in each of their baking spaces and have one, two, and three shelves respectively. Rofco's most popular model, the three-shelf B40, adds both more height and more width to each shelf space.

ELECTRICAL AND SITING

Rofco ovens use 220V (single phase) power, and come with a 6-20P cord-end plug. 220V power is the same as electric cooktops and conventional ovens use, so all kitchens are wired for 220V power. Depending on how your kitchen is wired now, and where you want to site your Rofco stone oven, you may need to have an additional 220V 6-20R receptacle installed. You're also free to locate your clean-running Rofco oven anywhere else in your home, even including your garage if that works best for you. Rofco ovens do not need to be kept or operated in a heated space. The only siting requirement is that 1.2" of space needs to be maintained between the oven and other surfaces. Rofco ovens require no venting.

ACCESSORIES

Steam trays are the ideal way to introduce steam in your baking process. Not just empty vessels, Rofco steam trays contain heavy stainless rods that store a large amount of heat energy for rapid and complete steam release—order one for each shelf where you want to use supplemental steam. Depending on the kind of bread you're making, using steam at the right stage of baking can deliver the marvelous crust qualities you may have thought you could never achieve at home.

Also, you can put any kind of dough directly onto the stones in the Rofco oven (which is how most owners of stone ovens use theirs) but if you'd prefer to keep oils and sugars off your stones, blued-steel baking trays and woven glass mats (the same type used in many commercial bakeries) do come standard with the oven.

ROFCO OVENS IN BAKERIES

Use of Rofco ovens by commercial micro-bakeries is commonplace, and Rofco recognizes that starting on a shoestring to avoid the high cost of a commercial deck oven can be a very smart strategy for a new business. Please be aware that any breakdowns that may occur under the stresses of commercial use will be out-of-warranty. Pleasant Hill Grain stocks parts for repair and wear-part replacement, and we're here to help with the needs of all Rofco users whether your oven is under warranty or not, and whether you're using it for commercial or personal use. Rofco ovens are simple, well built, and durable. Pleasant Hill Grain is the exclusive U.S. Rofco distributor, and we can attest that service issues are few and far-between.

MOVE UP TO ROFCO

At PHG, experience has shown us that of all the techniques, tools and gadgets available to bakers, none is as effective as a genuine stone oven in producing actual professional bakery-level food in your home. No one ever says they regret getting their Rofco oven, only that they wish they'd done it sooner!

Questions? Please call 866-467-6123. We'd be happy to talk with you about a Rofco oven or any of your baking needs.

Rofco's other models are the Rofco B40 electric stone bread oven, the Rofco B20 electric stone bread oven and the Rofco B10 electric stone bread oven.

Do you need a commercial deck oven? We also offer German-made Häussler commercial electric stone bread ovens: Häussler INO 2004 oven and Häussler's INO 2006-series ovens.

Descriptions of Ratings for Clearance Store Items
Rating	Description (Expanded descriptions in next table)	Minimum Discount	Mechanically Perfect	Standard Return Policy	Full Warranty
R1	Returned. Non-working surfaces have new or nearly new appearance. Working surfaces may have slight wear marks. Very close scrutiny is required to tell that the item isn’t brand new. Packaging may not be perfect.	10%	Yes	Yes	Yes
R2	Returned, nearly-new appearance. Slight to moderate flaws on non-working surfaces, such as a mixer cabinet or lid.	Varies by item	Yes	Yes	Yes
FR	Factory refurbished. Mostly returned items which have been brought fully up to new-equipment performance specs at the factory.	Varies by item	Yes	Yes	No
D	Demonstration items have been operated briefly at Pleasant Hill Grain.	Varies by item	Yes	Yes	Yes
SDB	From new stock; has moderate damage such as a scratch, dent, or paint blemish.	Varies by item	Yes	Yes	Yes
NOS	New old-stock. A brand new item that isn't the newest model.	Varies by item.	Yes	Yes	Varies by item
Additional notes: The ratings are for cosmetic condition only. All Clearance Store merchandise is guaranteed to function perfectly. Items are offered under normal terms of sale: Please review policies before ordering. Some clearance items ship in plain (but carefully boxed) packaging, rather than the manufacturer’s original carton. Important: All clearance items may have been exposed to various allergenic foods. Bottom Line: If you’re a highly detail-oriented person, we recommend sticking to “R1.” But after a week’s use, the only real difference between one of these items and a brand new one will be the money you saved.

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