Four years ago my sister and I started our Micro b Four years ago my sister and I started our Micro bakery called The Flour Barn.  We turned a barn on our family farm into a commercial kitchen and started with one product, Cinnamon Rolls. As we got more and more orders we added more and more products. As we sold more products we could afford better equipment, than employees, slowly creating the bakery we always dreamed of....

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/how-to-make-money-from-your-micro-bakery-at-home/
Garden Season is among us! Tomatoes are starting t Garden Season is among us! Tomatoes are starting to turn, sweet corn is ready to harvest and we are so excited! For years our family has a had a big garden that we not only enjoy for the summer, but that we preserve for the whole year! It is such a treat to be able to have fresh tasting sweet corn in the middle of December, or delicious marinara for Stromboli. 

We have a few openings in tonights Sweet Corn Harvest dinner class as well as in our Harvest dinner class in a couple weeks. We also have several blog articles you can check out to help you utilize your garden!

To sign up for a class:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site/shop/class/9?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc

How to preserve tomatoes:

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/how-to-make-the-best-homemade-roasted-tomato-sauce/

How to make delicious Zucchini bread:

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/whole-wheat-zucchini-bread-recipe/
We are back this week Friday 8-12 and Saturday 8-1 We are back this week Friday 8-12 and Saturday 8-11! We are so excited to get back to baking💕 Make sure to place your orders for Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls, Focaccia Breakfast Sandwiches and more! See you soon☺️🥰😱💕

To preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site

To check out our blog:

Theflourbarnhomestead.com

Our address:
The Flour Barn
17200 Kandel rd Marysville
Although we are closed this Saturday, we do still Although we are closed this Saturday, we do still have a few classes available for this summer! We have a Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner coming up next week as well as another amazing Harvest dinner in a couple weeks🥰 For more information check out the link below…

https://the-flour-barn.square.site
The Flour Barn Bakery will open tomorrow 8-11! Ras The Flour Barn Bakery will open tomorrow 8-11! Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls, Caprese Sandwiches, and an Iced White Chocolate Blackberry Latte are all perfect on a beautiful summer day! We also will be selling fresh flowers from heritagefarm and sweet corn from Muddy Pike Pumpkins and Produce! 

To preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site

Tomorrows case:
- Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls
- Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls 
- Honey Buns
- Key Lime Pie Bars
- Strawberry Cream Croissants 
- Various Danish
- Ham and Cheese Croissants
- Cosmic Jumbo Brownies 
- Ham and Cheddar Quiche
- Maple Sausage Breakfast Sandwich
- Focaccia Bacon Breakfast Sandwich 
- Summer Berry Cheesecake Bars
- Sourdough Loaves
- Oatmeal Cream Pies
- Lemon Blueberry Scones
- Cold Brew
- Various Lattes 
- Chai Latte
- Hemisphere Coffee
The Flour Pot is open today 8-1! Stop by for some The Flour Pot is open today 8-1! Stop by for some coffee and cinnamon rolls😍
Throwback Flavor: Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls! This Throwback Flavor: Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls! This was one of our first specialty rolls 4 years ago😱 It feels like just yesterday we started selling our Cinnamon Rolls out of the barn💕 Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls and Caprese Sandwiches are both available for preorder for a limited time! 

To preorder: 

https://the-flour-barn.square.site
Check out our website to get this delicious Zucchi Check out our website to get this delicious Zucchini bread recipe! When baking at home I try to use as much freshly milled whole wheat flour as I can. It’s how I justify the amount of bread my son eats… 

Link in bio or go to theflourbarnhomestead.com to find all our favorite recipes!
The only thing we love more than making sourdough The only thing we love more than making sourdough is sharing it! We sell our sourdough bread every Friday and Saturday at our little bakery on our family farm. 

We also teach a class on sourdough bread baking every month! Link to order our bread or sign up for one of our classes is in our bio.

#sourdough #microbakery #microbakerylife #sourdoughbread #sourdoughbreadbaking #homesteading #sourdoughbakery #ohiobakery
  • Homestead Recipes
    • Homestead Recipes
    • Freshly Milled Flour Recipes
    • Sourdough Recipes
  • Behind the Business
    • Starting Your own Micro Bakery
    • Class Content
    • Bakery recipes
  • About Us
  • Homestead Recipes
    • Homestead Recipes
    • Freshly Milled Flour Recipes
    • Sourdough Recipes
  • Behind the Business
    • Starting Your own Micro Bakery
    • Class Content
    • Bakery recipes
  • About Us

The Flour Barn Homestead

Recipes, Farm Life, Motherhood

Bakery recipes, Behind the Business, Class Content, Freshly Milled Flour Recipes, Homestead Recipes, Our Homestead, Sourdough Recipes, Starting Your own Micro Bakery · March 20, 2023

Why you NEED a Thermopen as a Baker

Using a thermopen is key to getting the perfect bake everytime!

Saturday morning at The Flour Barn Bakery is full of sweet smells and some fast-paced baking. Wanting everything to be fresh for our customers, we bake almost everything that morning before 8 am. That means we are baking around 400 rolls, 80 croissants, 200 danish and more for that morning’s crowd. That leaves very little time to be wasted in the morning. On top of the pressure of getting everything done in time, there is the larger pressure of making sure everything is baked to perfection. The Thermapen has been crucial in allowing us to know each treat is baked to its optimal internal temperature in an instant.

More than Intuition

After we opened the Flour Barn Bakery, we quickly realized that baking for others was very different than baking for yourself. With the pressure of true feedback and exposure to the community, we had a lot of pressure on our shoulders to make every product perfect. One of our biggest fears revolved around the doneness of our bakes. If they were underdone, it would be a doughy disaster; but if they were overdone, the products would be dry. This caused us to spend countless hours peering into the oven and relying on intuition to know when our baked goods were done perfectly.

To clarify, baker intuition does exist. Ellen always knew how to perfectly bake her cakes, my dad was getting very good at knowing the doneness of a roll just by the outside coloring. But this was not the most efficient or effective way. It took more time, energy and contemplation to rely on intuition bake after bake.

Then we discovered something that changed baking as we knew it…forever.

This post contains affiliate links, which means I make a small commission at no extra cost to you.

The Miracle that is Internal Temperature

When you are cooking different meats, many of them include a safe internal temperature that you must reach to feel safe eating that particular kind. What many don’t know is that baked goods also have an optimal internal temperature.

You can use all the best ingredients, mix your ingredients just enough and follow the instructions to a tee. But if you overbake or underbake your treat, it will not be the best.

Your Guide to Internal Temperature

Below is a guide to the most common bakes and their internal temperatures. Some have ranges; the lower number will result in a moister bake and the higher will result in a more done bake. Pin it, share it and don’t forget it!

How to Use the Thermopen

One thing to keep in mind is that you don’t want to frequently open your oven when baking. This can drop the temperature of the oven and affect your bake. This is especially important when baking pastry.

When you think that your bake may be done, just open the oven and stick the probe into the center of your treat. Check the thickest part of your bake because that is the section that will take the longest to bake all the way through. Make sure that you don’t stick the probe to close to the pan, because it can give you an inaccurate read.

Remember that when testing breads with fillings that you are temp checking the bread section. The filling will be a different temperature and your temperature will be inaccurate.

Thermapen being used to test scones

How the Thermopen will Change your Baking

One issue I constantly ran into when home baking was over baking to make sure that I had no raw dough.

Before I worked at the Flour Barn full time, I actually sold bread to my neighbors at my apartment complex. I did this to make some extra money and to get more baking experience while in nursing school. This was the first time I had the stress of making sure the bread was perfect for others. The Thermapen was a crucial tool in knowing that each bake I was selling was not raw in the middle or too crispy.

My Sales Pitch for Thermopen

We have always used the Thermapen in the bakery. I have used other thermometers and I truly believe Thermopen is superior. Here are some of my favorite features.

  • Easy to read: The Thermapen has a backlight that makes it easier to read. This may seem trivial but when you are in a hot oven, and sometimes there is steam or smoke, that backlight makes it so much simpler to read. It also has large print, so Kim doesn’t even need her reading glasses:)
  • Reliable: I have trust in my Thermapen. I have used thermometers before that would give me one temperature in one area and then a dramatically different temp one cm over. At that point I would just remove the thermometer and rely on intuition. With the Thermapen I have never been let down. I trust it as much as any of my coworkers, maybe more.
  • Waterproof!: This is specific to the Thermapen ONE. This comes in handy when you toss the pen into the sink to be washed forgetting that it is an electronic device. But maybe that is just a “me” problem.
  • Last a long time: The battery life is insane. We have bought batteries one time at the bakery and we have been using two Thermapens for three years.

This is a Big Deal

I still cannot get over the power of internal temperature. Not only is it sad when your bread dough is raw inside or your brownies are goopy instead of gooey; it is also expensive to put the ingredients and time into a project and it not turn out in the final moments.

Imagine if they had this on The Great British Baking Show! No more raw pastry or over cooked “sponges”. I can just hear Paul coldly saying “that’s raw”. If you don’t know what I am taking about, then you need to watch The Great British Baking Show.

Have you ever baked using internal thermometers? Will you now? Make sure to hang onto our handy sheet with all our go-to baking temps! Click here to check out the amazing tool that is the Thermapen.

2 responses to “Why you NEED a Thermopen as a Baker”

  1. Sourdough Baking Essentials – The Flour Barn Homestead
    March 21, 2023

    […] I love my Thermapen. Every time I watch the Great British Baking show, I’m always sitting there in frustration thinking, “Why don’t they just use a Thermapen!” Sourdough bread is done when the internal temperature reads 200 degrees. If you do not have a Thermapen, you are really just judging the doneness of your bread by the color of the crust which can be unreliable. Read more about our love of the Thermapen, as well as the internal temperature for different baked goods HERE. […]

  2. Coffee Cake Muffin Recipe – The Flour Barn Homestead
    April 11, 2023

    […] This recipe is a customer favorite at our bakery, the Flour Barn. Some handy tools I would recommend for all your baking would be a kitchen scale and a Thermapen. Both of these items will take your baking to the next level. A scale provides both precision and a cleaner work area. A Thermapen ensures your bake is baked perfectly every time by monitoring its internal temperature. To learn more about how to use optimal internal temperature for your baking click here. […]

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest

In: Bakery recipes, Behind the Business, Class Content, Freshly Milled Flour Recipes, Homestead Recipes, Our Homestead, Sourdough Recipes, Starting Your own Micro Bakery · Tagged: Baking for Beginners, Bread Baking, Flour Barn

You’ll Also Love

sliced sourdough banana breadThe Best Sourdough Banana Bread
baked whole wheat hamburger bunsWhole Wheat Hamburger Buns
Whole Wheat Flour BlendHow to Mill Your Own Flour at Home: A Complete Guide

Trackbacks

  1. Sourdough Baking Essentials - The Flour Barn Homestead says:
    March 21, 2023 at 8:21 pm

    […] I love my Thermapen. Every time I watch the Great British Baking show, I’m always sitting there in frustration thinking, “Why don’t they just use a Thermapen!” Sourdough bread is done when the internal temperature reads 200 degrees. If you do not have a Thermapen, you are really just judging the doneness of your bread by the color of the crust which can be unreliable. Read more about our love of the Thermapen, as well as the internal temperature for different baked goods HERE. […]

  2. Coffee Cake Muffin Recipe - The Flour Barn Homestead says:
    April 11, 2023 at 2:46 pm

    […] This recipe is a customer favorite at our bakery, the Flour Barn. Some handy tools I would recommend for all your baking would be a kitchen scale and a Thermapen. Both of these items will take your baking to the next level. A scale provides both precision and a cleaner work area. A Thermapen ensures your bake is baked perfectly every time by monitoring its internal temperature. To learn more about how to use optimal internal temperature for your baking click here. […]

Next Post >

How We Started the Flour Barn Bakery

Side Bar

Follow us!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube

About Us

instagram

Follow @flourbarn

Four years ago my sister and I started our Micro b Four years ago my sister and I started our Micro bakery called The Flour Barn.  We turned a barn on our family farm into a commercial kitchen and started with one product, Cinnamon Rolls. As we got more and more orders we added more and more products. As we sold more products we could afford better equipment, than employees, slowly creating the bakery we always dreamed of....

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/how-to-make-money-from-your-micro-bakery-at-home/
Garden Season is among us! Tomatoes are starting t Garden Season is among us! Tomatoes are starting to turn, sweet corn is ready to harvest and we are so excited! For years our family has a had a big garden that we not only enjoy for the summer, but that we preserve for the whole year! It is such a treat to be able to have fresh tasting sweet corn in the middle of December, or delicious marinara for Stromboli. 

We have a few openings in tonights Sweet Corn Harvest dinner class as well as in our Harvest dinner class in a couple weeks. We also have several blog articles you can check out to help you utilize your garden!

To sign up for a class:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site/shop/class/9?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc

How to preserve tomatoes:

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/how-to-make-the-best-homemade-roasted-tomato-sauce/

How to make delicious Zucchini bread:

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/whole-wheat-zucchini-bread-recipe/
We are back this week Friday 8-12 and Saturday 8-1 We are back this week Friday 8-12 and Saturday 8-11! We are so excited to get back to baking💕 Make sure to place your orders for Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls, Focaccia Breakfast Sandwiches and more! See you soon☺️🥰😱💕

To preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site

To check out our blog:

Theflourbarnhomestead.com

Our address:
The Flour Barn
17200 Kandel rd Marysville
Although we are closed this Saturday, we do still Although we are closed this Saturday, we do still have a few classes available for this summer! We have a Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner coming up next week as well as another amazing Harvest dinner in a couple weeks🥰 For more information check out the link below…

https://the-flour-barn.square.site
The Flour Barn Bakery will open tomorrow 8-11! Ras The Flour Barn Bakery will open tomorrow 8-11! Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls, Caprese Sandwiches, and an Iced White Chocolate Blackberry Latte are all perfect on a beautiful summer day! We also will be selling fresh flowers from heritagefarm and sweet corn from Muddy Pike Pumpkins and Produce! 

To preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site

Tomorrows case:
- Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls
- Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls 
- Honey Buns
- Key Lime Pie Bars
- Strawberry Cream Croissants 
- Various Danish
- Ham and Cheese Croissants
- Cosmic Jumbo Brownies 
- Ham and Cheddar Quiche
- Maple Sausage Breakfast Sandwich
- Focaccia Bacon Breakfast Sandwich 
- Summer Berry Cheesecake Bars
- Sourdough Loaves
- Oatmeal Cream Pies
- Lemon Blueberry Scones
- Cold Brew
- Various Lattes 
- Chai Latte
- Hemisphere Coffee
The Flour Pot is open today 8-1! Stop by for some The Flour Pot is open today 8-1! Stop by for some coffee and cinnamon rolls😍
Throwback Flavor: Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls! This Throwback Flavor: Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls! This was one of our first specialty rolls 4 years ago😱 It feels like just yesterday we started selling our Cinnamon Rolls out of the barn💕 Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls and Caprese Sandwiches are both available for preorder for a limited time! 

To preorder: 

https://the-flour-barn.square.site
Check out our website to get this delicious Zucchi Check out our website to get this delicious Zucchini bread recipe! When baking at home I try to use as much freshly milled whole wheat flour as I can. It’s how I justify the amount of bread my son eats… 

Link in bio or go to theflourbarnhomestead.com to find all our favorite recipes!
The only thing we love more than making sourdough The only thing we love more than making sourdough is sharing it! We sell our sourdough bread every Friday and Saturday at our little bakery on our family farm. 

We also teach a class on sourdough bread baking every month! Link to order our bread or sign up for one of our classes is in our bio.

#sourdough #microbakery #microbakerylife #sourdoughbread #sourdoughbreadbaking #homesteading #sourdoughbakery #ohiobakery
Never gets old… Never gets old…
The Flour Barn Bakery will be open this week Frida The Flour Barn Bakery will be open this week Friday 8-1 and Saturday 8-11! You can go ahead and preorder favorites like our Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls, Cream Filled Croissants and our Focaccia Breakfast Sandwiches! 

Address:
The Flour Barn
17200 Kandel Rd Marysville 

To Preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site
🥐☕️ 🥐☕️
Saturday morning breakfast at The Flour Barn Baker Saturday morning breakfast at The Flour Barn Bakery, what could be better?! Our special Peach Cobbler Rolls are still here for a limited time, as well as our delicious Summer Berry Cheesecake Bars😍 Full case list below…

To get the full Flour Barn experience, grab a Blackberry White Chocolate Latte and a pack of Jumbo Cinnamon rolls while you take in the country air🥰  We recommend preordering Peach Cobbler rolls, Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls and Focaccia Breakfast Sandwiches!

To preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site

Tomorrows case:
- Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls
- Peach Cobbler Rolls
- Honey Buns
- Key Lime Pie Bars
- Strawberry Cream Croissants 
- Various Danish
- Ham and Cheese Croissants
- Cosmic Jumbo Brownies 
- Ham and Cheddar Quiche
- Maple Sausage Breakfast Sandwich
- Focaccia Bacon Breakfast Sandwich 
- Summer Berry Cheesecake Bars
- Sourdough Loaves
- Oatmeal Cream Pies
- Lemon Blueberry Scones
- Cold Brew
- Various Lattes 
- Chai Latte
- Hemisphere Coffee
Open today 8-1! Get a delicious coffee and a break Open today 8-1! Get a delicious coffee and a breakfast sandwich! Or some Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls and Sourdough bread. Ordering will be inside due to weather. See you soon☺️
Our Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner Class was so fun and Our Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner Class was so fun and delicious. Together we learned to make several dishes using farm fresh sweet corn, and then we sat down and enjoyed the delicious meal together💕

To sign up for our next Harvest Series class:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site/shop/class/9?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc
A delicious Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner Class💕 We A delicious Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner Class💕 We learned how to make so many amazing sweet corn recipes and then sat done and enjoyed each of them with some freshly baked sourdough😍 Still spots left in Augusts class!

Privacy Policy

https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/4bb73ad2-b976-4012-b1f3-47b8fae478b7

  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 The Flour Barn Homestead · Theme by 17th Avenue

29 shares
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Email
 

Loading Comments...