As a baking beginner, you need to know some basic baking knowledge to better understand the process and techniques that will help improve your baking skills. So what is the knowledge that a baking beginner needs to know? Let's find out more about it next.

1, oven temperature

Mastering the oven temperature is very important, different ingredients and recipes need the oven temperature will be different.

Before you use the oven for baking, be sure to preheat it in advance. That is, before you put the ingredients into the oven, turn the oven to the temperature needed for baking, and let the oven warm up first, then put the ingredients into the oven to bake. A typical oven needs to be preheated for 5-10 minutes.

Different ingredients and baking recipes require different oven temperatures. Generally speaking, cakes, cookies and other desserts need to be preheated to 175-180°C when baking, while meats, breads and other items require higher temperatures. Be sure to adjust the temperature required for the recipe when baking to ensure the taste and quality of the finished product.

2, material selection

Crucial to the success of baking is the use of high-quality ingredients, such as fresh cream, flour and so on.

Choosing quality ingredients is very important, especially for a process like baking that requires a high quality of ingredients. For example, when making bread, using high-gluten flour can make the dough more resilient, while low-gluten flour is suitable for making cookies and cakes. Butter has a higher oil content than butter, so it is more suitable for cookies, while butter is recommended for cakes.

(1) Flour

Low gluten flour: suitable for making: cakes, cookies, puff pastry

Medium gluten flour: suitable for making: steamed buns, buns, dumplings, pancakes, and other Chinese pastry, medium gluten flour is ordinary flour.

High gluten flour: strong gluten, sticky, suitable for doing: can be used to make bread, noodles and so on.

◆You can mix other flours to make the flour you want:

High-gluten flour + low-gluten flour 1:1 mix = medium-gluten flour

High-gluten flour + cornstarch 4:1 mix = medium-gluten flour

Medium-gluten flour + cornstarch 4:1 mix = low-gluten flour

High-gluten flour + cornstarch 1:1 mix = low-gluten Flour

(2) Fats and oils

Butter in baking, usually unsalted butter, choose animal butter

Fats and oils: salad oil/corn oil, colorless and odorless

(3) Sugar

Sugar for cakes: white granulated sugar, powdered sugar, Lan sugar, "fine sugar", fine particles, easy to mix, dissolve

Pastry sugar: brown sugar, brown sugar

Decorative sugar: coarse sugar, powdered sugar

(4) eggs

Baking, the egg selection weight of about 60 grams The eggs are "big red eggs".

The optimal storage temperature for eggs is: refrigerated at 2-6 degrees Celsius.

(5) dairy products

Milk: baking recipes, milk refers to "whole milk", to enhance the flavor of the pastry, so that the texture of the moist, smooth, creamy;

White cream: there are two kinds of animal cream, vegetable cream.

It is recommended to use animal cream to make cakes and desserts, which has a good taste and is healthier, because animal cream has no sugar, and add 6%-10% sugar when whipping according to demand.

◆ Vegetable cream: can be frozen or refrigerated, freezing temperature -18 ℃, refrigerated temperature 2 ~ 6 ℃, pay attention to the refrigerated do not stick to the wall of the refrigerator.

◆ Animal cream: can only be refrigerated at 2 ℃ ~ 6 ℃ to save

3. Measurement is accurate

In baking, measurement is very important. Ingredients must be weighed accurately or the quality of the finished product may be affected.

Measurement is very important in baking, and you need to follow the recipes strictly to ensure the quality of the finished product is consistent. When measuring it's best to use electronic scales, which can improve accuracy and avoid errors. For example, when you need to use 10 grams of ingredients, you must weigh them on an electronic scale that is accurate to 0.1 grams.

4. Baking skills

Baking skills are one of the keys to successful baking. When making a cake, you should pay attention to beating the egg white, which can make the cake more fluffy and delicate; when making cookies, you should pay attention to chilling the dough for a period of time, so that the shape of the final product to ensure that it is more beautiful and so on. Common baking tips also include how to control the fermentation of the dough, how to mix the ingredients and so on.

(1) Sifting the flour

Sifting can remove impurities and lumps in the flour, and make the flour more fluffy, which is good for mixing the flour with eggs, milk and other liquids, and makes the batter more delicate. Generally speaking, high-flour flour, medium-flour flour, low-flour flour, cocoa powder and so on, need to be sifted: if you use it as a dry flour and hand powder, you don't need to sift it.

(2) Whip the egg whites, cream

The basin should be clean, no water and no oil, with a hand-held electric whisk, the effect is better to beat the air into the ingredients, so that the ingredients become more fluffy.

(3) Stirring

Stirring is the most commonly used way of mixing in baking, and is the most efficient way to mix liquid ingredients, draw a circle and stir; mixing the flour and liquid ingredients, draw a "Z" shape and stir the flour will not be over-stirred and gluten

This is the best way to mix the ingredients.

(4) Turning

Turning is to use a spatula to make a half arc from the bottom to the top. When the cake batter is large, it is not easy to make it foamy by mixing. It is generally used for mixing whipped egg whites and whipped egg yolks, other liquid ingredients or powders;

For example, when making chiffon cake or sponge cake, the mixing technique used is to reduce the foaminess of the egg whites.

(5) cut mix

Cut mix is a spatula cut into the batter, from the center of the mixing bowl quickly through the cut mixing action, you can increase the area of contact between the two to improve the mixing efficiency of the general cookies, pound cake, tartlets, and other oil and egg mixture and flour mixing is to use cut mixing techniques.

5. Moisture control

Mastering the control of moisture, including how much water to add, and controlling the humidity when the dough is fermenting, can make the baked goods more delicious.

Moisture control is important, especially the amount of water in the dough. When making bread, because the amount of water absorbed by different brands of flour can vary, you need to add the right amount of water to ensure the softness and elasticity of the dough. It is also important to pay attention to water control when making cakes, cookies, etc. Consider adding liquid ingredients such as cream and milk to regulate the moisture content of the dough.

6. Time control

Time is of the essence, and baking needs to be done in strict accordance with the required time. Insufficient or excessive oven time will affect the finished product.

Time control is also a key aspect of baking success. In baking, the time allotted for each step is important and needs to be strictly adhered to in the recipe. For example, when making a cake, too much or too little time when whipping the egg whites and mixing the powdered sugar will affect the texture and quality of the cake.

(1) Chiffon Cake

6-inch: 155 degrees, time 45 minutes

8-inch: 155 degrees, time 50 minutes

10-inch: 155 degrees, time 65 minutes

(2) Cheesecake

Middle and upper heat temperatures: 160 degrees

time: 30 minutes

(3) Cupcakes

Temperature of upper and lower heat: 170 degrees

Time: 20 minutes

(4) Cake rolls

28*28 baking pan

Temperature: 150 degrees

Time: 25 minutes

(5) Puff pastry

Temperature: 170 degrees

Time: 40 minutes

(6) Puffs

Temperature: 200 degrees

Time: 15 minutes

You can also bake in the middle of the oven at 200 degrees Celsius baked for 10 minutes, set, then turn to 180 degrees Celsius baked for 20 minutes

(7) Toast

Temperature: 200 degrees

Time: 30 minutes

Time: 30 minutes

The temperature is 200 degrees Celsius

Time: 30 minutes

(8) Cookies

Temperature: 150 degrees

Time: 30 minutes

(9) Macaroons

Temperature: 160 degrees

Time: 15 minutes

7. Safety Note

When baking, you must Pay attention to safety, such as charred food may cause fire, etc.

You need to pay attention to safety when baking to ensure your own and your family's health and property safety. In particular, when using the oven, pay attention to the oven door closing and heating temperature adjustment. Also, be careful when removing baked goods from the oven to prevent accidents. It is best to stay awake during the baking process and avoid fumbling to avoid accidents.

These are some of the baking beginners need to must understand the knowledge, master these basics and skills, for baking beginners is very important, we pay attention to learn and practice.