Skip to content

Choosing tools

Simply Bread Brand: What It Sells and What to Check First

A clear look at what the Simply Bread brand actually offers, and a simpler way to handle the orders and payments side of your baking.

On this page
  1. What the brand actually sells
  2. What the listed details mean for a home baker
  3. Support and contact
  4. What the oven does not do
  5. If what you need is a way to sell, not an oven
  6. The short version
A small bakery counter with a baker, a customer and a card reader
Honest comparisons of the apps and platforms home bakers use.

If you searched the Simply Bread brand, you are probably trying to work out what you are actually looking at. Searches for the name pull up more than one thing, so it helps to separate them before you spend anything. Here is what the brand lists, in plain words, and what to think about next.

What to remember

  • Simply Bread sells a deck oven, listed for the home, a compact café, or a commercial restaurant. - The oven is described as 14 gauge steel construction with stone hearth deck floors. - It has programmable steam, a large viewing window, and built in wi-fi for remote diagnostics and performance tracking. - Support is 24/7, with complimentary access to in-house baker Alisha Fuller. - An oven bakes your bread. It does not take orders, hold a deposit, or tell you what a loaf costs you.

What the brand actually sells

The core product is a deck oven. Simply Bread lists it as NSF, UL, and CE listed and describes it as built for the home, a compact café, or a commercial restaurant. That range matters to you, because the same oven is sold into home kitchens and into shop floors. If you bake a few dozen loaves a week and sell them from your kitchen, you sit inside the group this oven is aimed at.

What the listed details mean for a home baker

The oven uses 14 gauge steel construction, which Simply Bread lists for heat retention and consistent bakes. It has stone hearth deck floors that conduct heat directly into the dough, which is the part that matters when you are chasing a crust. It also has programmable steam and a large viewing window, so you can set the steam and watch a bake without opening the door. Built in wi-fi covers remote diagnostics and performance tracking.

Read that list as what you are paying for: heat that holds, a stone deck, steam you can set, and a way for support to see what the oven is doing. None of it tells you whether the oven fits your kitchen, your counter space, or your weekly volume. Those are questions for the seller.

Support and contact

Simply Bread offers 24/7 tech support and complimentary access to its in-house baker, Alisha Fuller. For someone stepping up from a home oven to a deck oven, access to a baker is often worth more than a manual, because the questions that come up early are about dough and steam, not wiring. The company lists [email protected] and +1 (844) 946-4050 for customer service.

What the oven does not do

An oven bakes. It does not take an order from a customer, hold a deposit, send a reminder about Saturday pickup, or tell you what a loaf costs you in flour and butter. Those jobs live somewhere else, and for most home bakers they are the ones that decide whether selling feels calm or chaotic. You can spend on equipment and still be taking orders out of your text messages, which is where mistakes happen.

If what you need is a way to sell, not an oven

Plenty of home bakers go looking at equipment brands and come away realizing the real gap is on the selling side. That is where Brevl fits. It is one flat $20 a month with no cut of your sales, a 14 day free trial, and it works on a computer and on a phone. You take card payments through your own Stripe or Square account, plus Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and cash. Your shop is yours to customize, with your photos, your colors, and your own web address. Recipes come with real costing, ingredient inventory, and a weekly planner, so you can price a loaf properly. Setup is done with you, and your old shop gets moved over, including products, photos, reviews, and dates. A real person answers, usually within minutes.

If you are also weighing order tools, Brevl vs Bakesy and Switch walk through what changes when you move.

The short version

Simply Bread is an oven brand, and a serious one on paper: listed for home and commercial use, built with steel and stone, with steam, wi-fi diagnostics, and a baker on call. If a deck oven is what your baking has outgrown, it belongs on your list of calls to make. But the oven is one piece. The orders, the deposits, the pickup times, and the prices are the other piece, and they are the part most home bakers need to fix first.

For the app side of the name, see Simply Bread App. If you landed here from a recipe search, Simply Bread Baguette covers that. And if you are comparing order tools generally, Hotplate App Alternative is a fair next read.

Sources

  1. simplybread.com

Product details and support terms change. Confirm the current specs, space and power needs, and terms with the seller before you buy.

Browse all guides

Browse by topic

Sab from Brevl. A real person, usually within minutes.

Questions about your own bakery? We help you get set up, on a call if you like.

Ready when you are

Open your bakery.

One flat $20 a month, no cut of your sales. Start your 14-day free trial, and a real person helps you set up.

Start your bakery