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