North Augusta’s Ryan and Shaundra Mann are the baking duo behind Baker’s Mann Candy N’ Savory, and since early Could they’ve been pounding out the dough for his or her specialty (soft-baked pretzels, finished the German means) not on their very own kitchen counters however at BaseOps Kitchen in south Augusta.
It’s given the corporate an opportunity for extra manufacturing and higher attain to cross-river prospects.
As a hitherto home-based bakery in North Augusta, South Carolina’s Cottage Meals Legislation had restricted the Manns to creating gross sales that have been direct to client and solely to South Carolinians.
Now, the 2 can promote in Georgia as effectively. BaseOps’ location in Augusta, paired by authorized necessity with the certifications that include a industrial kitchen area, is reflective of a much less seen kind of enlargement: The Manns now have a Georgia enterprise license.
“I am excited to see the place it takes us for the subsequent season,” mentioned Shaundra. “Child steps, however we’re shifting alongside at tempo.”
“It’s neat to see the place that is altering and increasing. We didn’t even have an concept. It is gone on this completely different course, unplanned however thrilling – and scary,” mentioned Ryan.
North Augusta baking firm Baker’s Mann Candy N’ Savory has been using the shared kitchen area at BaseOps Kitchen in south Augusta since early Could. It is given the corporate an opportunity for extra manufacturing and higher attain to cross-river prospects.
‘Ardour within the pretzels’
The Manns began Baker’s Mann Candy N’ Savory in 2022.
The 2 are Midwest transplants – Ryan from Ohio and Shaundra from Nebraska – and former servicemen in america Air Pressure. It was at Fort Gordon that they met and shared a primary date on New 12 months’s Day in 2016.
Beginning a baking enterprise – beginning any sort of enterprise – was by no means a part of the equation for both of them.
“That was by the grace of God,” Ryan mentioned, leaning again with fun each comedian and critical: the journey from that first grain of an concept to the ultimate product of sweet-savory pretzel dough formed within the house kitchen was one in all “many roadblocks” however one very a lot with “Christ on the heart.”
The allowing course of, the enterprise mannequin, delays in simply discovering the precise individuals to speak to alongside the best way – there was one thing that appeared to dam their means at each flip, Ryan mentioned, however “proper as we’re about to surrender – door opens, proper there. It was encouragement that we felt was from the Lord that okay, we’re in. We’re doing the precise factor.”
“Subsequently, if anybody is in Christ, the brand new creation has come: The outdated has gone, the brand new is right here.” Verse 5:17 of II Corinthians is on the enterprise card for Baker’s Mann.
“It tied in completely with baking as a result of that’s what baking does. You are taking this factor that’s inedible – flour; it’s strongly inspired that you don’t eat it by itself – you are taking it, and also you make one thing new. It’s a completely new factor,” Ryan mentioned. “And it’s formed and it’s molded into this different factor, and it’s pleasing to the creator – on this case, it’s the baker, me.”
North Augusta’s Ryan Mann, one-half of the husband-and-wife duo behind Baker’s Mann Candy N’ Savory, rolls out the dough for pretzel knots at BaseOps Kitchen in south Augusta.
“However for us, once we’re in Christ, we grow to be this new creation in Christ, and He makes us into what we have been supposed to be,” he continued. “We would like that to be the focus; we wish to guarantee that we get to broadcast that with this enterprise as effectively. It’s solely via Him that we’ve been in a position to do it anyway.”
Salsas and pot pies had outlined the Manns’ enterprise at first, however the shelf life of those savory gadgets quickly quashed that enterprise and prompted a shift to the sweeter finish of savory: soft-baked pretzels.
“I discovered my ardour within the pretzels,” Ryan mentioned of the specialty that has made for a form of area of interest right here in North Augusta the place the town’s brick-and-mortar bakeries fill their circumstances with the extra oft-found donuts and scones.
Although the German heritage is strongest in his “European mutt” background (as he jovially calls it), there was no household recipe to information these first twists and knots, and it was an experimental course of to get the precise proper steadiness of components – the science of baking, versus the soulfulness of cooking, he mentioned.
That science has already led to an concept: the pretzel bar, now a standby for his or her Aiken Farmers Market presence and one they mentioned they’d wish to construct into the subsequent step: a meals truck.
The flour and sugar used of their flavorful toppings weren’t standing as much as time – the pretzels nonetheless tasted nice and have been nonetheless completely wholesome to eat, however they positively weren’t appetizing to have a look at, Ryan mentioned.
So, as a substitute, “it’s a build-your-own pretzel bar… with help, as a result of I’ll construct it for you – you simply inform me what you need on it,” he laughed.
In the interim, although, yow will discover Baker’s Mann goodies on the Aiken Farmers Market in addition to on-line at www.mybakersmann.com.
