LESSON 3.3

Specialize Utensils

  • are used when an operation is to be repeated many times, or when the cook has limited dexterity or mobility.

Must-Have Baking Tools

These are the tools you absolutely need in your kitchen; the ones you’ll reach for more often than you think. Whether you’re baking a cake or stirring up a batch of cookies. Including the following.

Oven Thermometer

  • An instrument that gives the temperature inside the oven. Specific temperature inside the oven.

Wire Whip

  • This is a cluster of stiff wires used to whip egg whites and cream.

Lazy Suzan

  • A rotating device used primarily in kitchens and pantries for storing items in corner cabinets, hard-to-reach areas at the back of cabinets, or on tabletops.

  • A lazy Susan is round and is often constructed with several levels to provide as much storage surface as possible.

Pastry Tips

  • Commonly used for decorating cakes, cupcakes, and other baked goods, pastry bags, and tips are versatile tools that can be used for many different tasks in the kitchen.

Pastry Bag

  • A funnel-shaped container for icing or whipped cream

Mortar and Pestle

  • Mortar and pestle, ancient devices for milling by pounding. The mortar is a durable bowl commonly made of stone, ceramic, or wood. The pestle is a rounded grinding club often made of the same material as the mortar.

Cake Decorator (Cylindrical)

  • Is used in decorating or designing the cake and other pastry products

Cookie Press

  • Is used to mold and shape cookies.

Griddle


  • Ideal for cooking breakfast foods such as pancakes, sausages, bacon, eggs, hash browns, and French toast, they are also a great choice for burgers, grilled sandwiches, and fajitas. Griddles have a long and storied history

Waffle Maker

  • The waffle maker is a utensil or appliance used to cook waffles. It comprises two metal plates with a connecting hinge, molded to create the honeycomb pattern found on waffles.

Sauce Pan

  • A saucepan is perfect for boiling water. A saucepan excels at cooking anything that's mostly liquid. This means it's great for stewing, simmering, making soups and, unsurprisingly, making sauces like pasta sauce

Double Broiler

  • are two pots that use steam as a heat source to melt or cook food.

    • They are made up of two pieces, a large pot that is filled with hot or boiling water and a smaller pot that fits inside and uses the steam from the hot water to heat your food.

BAKING PANS

Rectangular Baking Pan

  • It is often used for baking bread rolls, pastries, and flat products such as cookies, sheet cakes, Swiss rolls, and pizzas.

Round Cake Pan

  • Round cake pans are used to make layer cakes and are generally found in 8 or 9-inch diameters and are 1 ½ inches in depth.

Loaf Pan

  • A bread pan, also called a loaf pan, is a kitchen utensil in the form of a container in which bread is baked.

Pie Plate

  • Made of glass, enamel or dark metal glass

Square Cake Pan

  • Used for making a square layer cake.

Baking Sheet/Cookie Sheet/Sheet Pan

  • Has only one side to allow even browning when baking biscuits or cookies

Muffin Pan

  • A type of pan used for baking muffins. The pan typically will have 6 or 12 individual round pockets or holders connected to the tin and formed in the shape of a muffin.

Tube Center Pan

  • A tube pan is used for baking cakes such as angel food and sponge cake and may also be called an angel food cake pan

Ring-Mold

  • Lower than the tube pan, but many have a pattern of design on the sides and bottom.

Tarts,Molds and Cutter

  • Molds comes in round, square, oblong or diamond.

Oblong Pan

  • Will accommodate the amount of cake batter usually bake in 2 layers.

Jelly Roll Pan

  • Used for baking jelly roll and very thin sheet cake.

OVENS

  • Are the workhorses of the bakeshop and are essential for producing the bakery products. Ovens are enclosed spaces in which food is heated, usually by hot air.

Several kinds of ovens are used in baking:

Deck Ovens

  • - are so called because the items to be baked either on sheet pans or in the case of some bread freestanding are placed directly on the bottom, or deck of the oven. This is also called STACK OVEN.

  • Deck oven for baking bread is equipped with steam ejector.


Rack oven

  • is a large oven into which entire racks

  • full of sheet pans can be wheeled for baking.


Mechanical oven

  • The most common types are a revolving oven, in which the mechanism is like that of a Ferris wheel.

  • The mechanical action eliminates the problem of hot spots or uneven baking because the mechanism rotates

Convection oven


  • contains fans that circulate the air and distribute the heat

rapidly throughout


Video Materials

Learning Activity 8

Instruction :

  1. Open the google form attached to this lesson in a new tab.

  2. Answer honestly, do not share your answers with your classmates.

References:

Google Internet

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3Y680k9EI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9cGYWoh8to