This document lists and describes various utensils and equipment used in making bread, pastries, cookies, muffins and biscuits. It includes measuring cups and spoons for accurately measuring ingredients, a timer and oven thermometer for monitoring baking time and temperature, mixing bowls and whisks for blending ingredients, scrapers and spoons for mixing, knives and spatulas for spreading and shaping dough, rolling pins for rolling out dough, brushes for greasing pans, sifters for dry ingredients, ovens for baking, and various pans like baking pans, sheets and muffin pans for baking breads and pastries.
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Bread and Pastry Production
This document lists and describes various utensils and equipment used in making bread, pastries, cookies, muffins and biscuits. It includes measuring cups and spoons for accurately measuring ingredients, a timer and oven thermometer for monitoring baking time and temperature, mixing bowls and whisks for blending ingredients, scrapers and spoons for mixing, knives and spatulas for spreading and shaping dough, rolling pins for rolling out dough, brushes for greasing pans, sifters for dry ingredients, ovens for baking, and various pans like baking pans, sheets and muffin pans for baking breads and pastries.
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BREAD AND
PASTRY PRODUCTION UTENSILS AND EQUIPMENTS IN MAKING BREAD,COOKIES,MUFFINS AND BISCUITS MEASURING CUPS
● GRADUATED or LIQUID MEASURING CUP
►Used for measuring liquids MEASURING SPOONS ► Used for measuring small quantities of ingredients like vanilla extract, baking powder, baking soda, salt and other minor ingredients. TIMER ► Monitors the baking time, and rising of yeast. OVEN THERMOMETER ► Most oven temperatures vary from top to bottom and side to side; place an oven thermometer next to food while cooking to ensure proper temperatures. MIXING BOWLS ► Comes in various sizes with sloping sides to ease mixing. It can be made of pottery, glass, metal or plastic. Stainless steel mixing bowls are best used in baking. WHISK ► Most whisks consist of long, narrow handle with a series of wire loops joined at the end. Commonly used to whip egg whites into a firm foam to make meringue or to whip cream into whipped cream. RUBBER SCRAPER ► A plate scraper consists of a plastic, wooden, or metal handle attached to a flexible rubber head. Although the original use of the implement was to remove food from plates before washing, its use has evolved to more of a utilitarian implement, the bowl scraper. WOODEN SPOON ► They are used as mixing spoons. Some cooks prefer to use wooden spoons because they do not transfer bodily heat as much as metal spoons. Unlike metal spoons they can also be safely used without scratching the bottom of saucepan. BREAD KNIFE ► It usually has a serrated edge. This helps cut bread or cake without crushing it. SPATULA ► A flat, thin and blunt metal used for leveling-off dry ingredients and spreading icing and frosting on cakes. ROLLING PIN ► It rolls out, flattens or thins the dough or paste. It may be made of wood, metal marble or synthetic materials. PASTRY BRUSH ► It may be made of soft, flexible nylon or unbleached hog bristles. It is used for greasing pans, washes , and brushing of cake crumbs. FLOUR SIFTER ► Used in sifting coarse or dry ingredients such as flour and sugar. OVEN ► An equipment used for baking, heating or drying foods. BAKING PAN ► An aluminum or tempered glass dish, rectangular or square in form used for baking cakes. COOKIE OR BAKING SHEET ► Is a flat aluminum sheet used for baking cookies. MUFFIN PAN ► An aluminum rectangular or square pan with hallow rounded.