When DH and I were in the planning stage of opening a restaurant, we were convinced by the 'experts' to plunk down a tidy sum for a bread prover. It was the most memorable white elephant of my whole life! It was never used for proving bread but just to store pots and pans!! As it turned out, it was quite easy to prove bread without resorting to high tech equipment but the big monster was impossible to move out since the kitchen partitioning wall was built after the prover was put in its place. Fortunately, the story had a happy ending. After an acrimonious and expensive court battle against a rapacious landlord, we settled by agreeing to move out to new premises. Little did he know that he could have inherited most of our kitchen equipment due to our inability to move it out without tearing down a wall. Fortunately, he was convinced at the last moment to buy all our kitchen equipment for a nice (to us) sum. This way the prover became his baby to either help him relieve pot storage problems or challenge his ingenuity to the hilt!