If you run a busy pizzeria or pizza shop a reliable dough roller is essential to keep up with your high production demands. A good dough roller saves time and ensures consistency with every pizza that goes through the oven.
There are plenty of these machines on the market, and plenty of ways cheaper models can go wrong. If your dough roller breaks during a busy service period you could be stuck with a long line of angry customers and a growing backlog of uncooked pizzas. Let's look at the five most common reasons commercial pizza dough rollers fail.
What kills dough rollers
Cleaning
The biggest problem with most dough rollers on the market is that they're hard to clean: many aren't designed to be completely disassembled, so removing excess dough can be difficult or impossible. If you don't make sure any wet, soft dough is completely removed from your dough roller at the end of the day it can accumulate and harden, clogging the machinery and causing the roller to fail.
Rubber Belts
Most commercial dough rollers on the market use a thin rubber band to rotate the rollers. This rubber band is likely to break eventually even from normal use, let alone if you're rolling sticky or harder dough. One break here, and your dough roller is useless until you get the band replaced.
Plastic Gears
The adjusting gears on the side of a dough roller are used to control the thickness of your resultant dough. In cheaper models these are made from a hard plastic, and can easily break when you're dealing with heavier loads. They're also another pain point for cleaning: they can easily clog with flour, making adjustments difficult.
Cheap On/Off Switches
This is an often overlooked service cost. Dough roller on/off switches are commonly made from plastic or rubber. With regular use these become sunken in, ripped or damaged and the cost to replace can be prohibitive. You might find yourself forking over as much as $200 to replace them, with a non-working dough roller sitting idle until you do.
Plastic Safety Guards
A situation where staff find it easier to work without a safety guard in place is an accident waiting to happen. Almost every pizza dough roller on the market features perspex safety guards. If and when these break or get damaged it's not uncommon for users to simply remove the guard and continue to roll the rest of their dough instead of replacing the faulty guard right away.
As you can see, there's a lot that can go wrong with cheaper commercial pizza dough rollers. Breakages and downtime will inevitably eat in to your bottom line, so it makes sense to invest in a heavy duty dough roller that can keep up with the high volume of dough you need to roll without breaking down. That's where Sirman's P-Roll dough rollers come in. These robust pieces of machinery have been specifically designed to overcome the five main points of failure on other pizza dough rollers listed above. Let's see how.
Why P-Roll Dough Rollers Don't Fail
Complete Disassembly
P-Roll pizza dough rollers can be completely disassembled in minutes for thorough cleaning. With no more sticky dough accumulating in the nooks and crannies of the machine there's no chance for the machinery to clog.
Industrial Cog Toothed Belt
Replacing the thin rubber bands on other commercial dough rollers is an industrial strength cog toothed belt that won't break or slip even when you're dealing with the heaviest or stickiest dough.
Hardened Direct Drive Metal Gears
Instead of the hard plastic adjusting gears used in cheaper rollers, the P-Roll series uses hardened direct drive metal gears that won't seize, break or clog. Disassemble the unit and you've got easy access for cleaning too.
IP67 Stainless Steel, Waterproof Buttons
A damaged on/off switch is the most tedious reason for a non-working dough roller so the P-Roll series replaces cheaper plastic or rubber switches with IP67 rated stainless steel buttons. Because they're waterproof, they're also easy to clean.
Unbreakable Stainless Steel Safety Guards
Sirman's stainless steel safety guards are not only unbreakable: each one is individually linked to the machine's controller so the roller won't operate unless every one is in place, thus eliminating the risk of user injury.
Enhanced design features like these come from years of experience designing and developing high quality catering equipment for professional kitchens. If you're ready to invest in a commercial dough roller that will stand the test of time and perform day in day out without breaking down, click the link below to find out more about the P-Roll series. It's the dough roller you can't afford not to buy.
