Welcome to the bakery: Blum visits Christina Bauer
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Christina Bauer shares her love of home baking and recipes for success in her blog as well as several cookbooks. She also offers baking courses, runs a café and sells everything the amateur baker needs in her shop. Her headquarters are her bakery – a feel-good place that makes every baking fan's heart beat faster.
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The contrast from the traditional was important to Christina, especially since she is very active in the digital world. The same was true for regional ties: "The cabinet maker who planned and built all of the furniture is a long-standing family friend. He has already worked on our kitchen at home and furnished our holiday apartments a few years ago," explains Christina. "We thought carefully about how we wanted to divide up the space in the bakery. Through our business, we already had a lot of experience of how the processes work and were able to determine which areas should be located where."
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Show kitchen with smart touches
The spacious show kitchen is located in the centre of the bakery next to the shop. Here, visitors can look over Christina's shoulder during small demonstrations, learn tips and tricks and talk shop about baking.
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She bakes fresh bread rolls especially for Blum and shows us her favourite features of the show kitchen, namely the spacious , in which she is able to find the most important utensils right away.
Since this is also where the food is served for the café's guests, the kitchen has plenty of storage space for dishes and glasses. To make sure everything runs smoothly and employees in the kitchen don't crash into obstacles, the wall cabinets are equipped with . The breakfast table is set for a cosy get-together in no time at all.
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Focus on regionality and sustainability
Regionality and sustainability are especially close to Christina's heart. Thanks to a cooperation with a local mill, a variety of flours are available for purchase. In the bakery itself, there is a flour mill and countless varieties of unpackaged baking ingredients such as seeds, grains and cereals that can be freshly ground on site and taken away in their own containers.
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Overview and organisation are essential for baking professionals like Christina. In the kitchen, the SPACE TOWER tall cabinet with individual pull-out inner drawers functions as a pantry. Thanks to the practical pull-outs, flour, malt and spices are clearly organised and immediately to hand.
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When kneading dough, it is not uncommon for your hands to be covered in flour or leftover dough. The waste bin pull-out with SERVO-DRIVE opens with a single touch and is a practical detail that Christina can no longer live without.
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The SPACE STEP plinth solution was requested by the women who work in the café. "One of our colleagues is quite short. She suggested this idea so that she can easily refill the beans in the big coffee machine. Everyone loves this step," explains Christina, laughing.
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The solid wood shop counters are also tailor-made. The discreet drawers contain a stock of shop items, have a smooth running action and provide an excellent view of the contents.
More inspiration for a perfectly organised kitchen
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New projects are already in the works
The bakery has turned into a successful business, but Christina has no plans to slow down. The creative Salzburg native is already working on her next big project: an online baking course to help her fans learn step-by-step how to bake handmade delicacies in their own kitchens.
What does she like most about her bakery and café? Christina doesn't have to think twice: "My team is the most important and best thing about it for me. Without these hard-working people, who give their best every day, it wouldn't work," she says, visibly proud.
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More on this in the Blum Inspirations magazine
At a glance: Christina's bakery
Christina's bakery is a bakery, café, office, warehouse and dispatch centre in one.
The interior designer has created a harmonic combination of traditional and modern.
To ensure workflows run smoothly, everything in the kitchen has been thought through down to the very last detail. Blum products enable fine-tuning: drawers contain inner dividing systems such as AMBIA-LINE, tall cabinets feature AVENTOS lift systems that open upwards and the SPACE STEP allows employees to reach even the highest shelves.
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