Beginner fans (fans) of cooking homemade pastries are primarily useful tools of a pastry chef. After you familiarize yourself with important devices that significantly facilitate the work of the creator of chic desserts, you can already look for the best recipes for making these very desserts and various pastries. You will also need to tune in not only to work, but also to compliments from gourmet connoisseurs. After all, if you have a set of tools for the pastry chef, then for you there is no reason why baking will turn out to be tasteless or ugly.
Are you keen on making desserts
So, you have entered the difficult but enjoyable path of confectionery art. Right now, on this occasion, we offer you an overview of some of the necessary assistants in such a difficult, but pleasant business, as the production of your own baked goods. Let's get acquainted with what tools a beginner confectioner and a more advanced confectioner should have.
Oven
The most important and leading element in the creation of any baking and many desserts is a good oven. Without an oven, you cannot bake cookies, cakes for a future cake, sand baskets for cream cakes. Without this leading device for baking, you will not be able to realize the hundredth part of your chosen recipes.
Baking trays
They set baking dishes for cupcakes, cakes and muffins. A huge selection of baking sheets of different capacities allows you to bake cookies, pies and some types of cakes. It is convenient to place silicone baking tins on baking trays, which need an even stand during the process to preserve the beautiful appearance of cakes for cakes and muffins.
Bakeware
What other tools do the confectioner need? Continuing the list, you can not ignore a variety of baking dishes. They are silicone and metal. Metal molds are now increasingly supplied with a non-stick coating, but they must be lubricated with oil.
Silicone forms are easy to store, have many advantages and are also non-stick. Many housewives still prefer to oil these forms.
Forms are needed, both large and smaller. Large, good for creating the base of the cake, those smaller have several compartments and are mainly used for baking cakes, muffins and other small but tasty pastries.
Necessarily needed forms for cutting beautiful cookies. Especially relevant recesses in the form of animals, fairy-tale characters and flowers. It would be nice to stock up on special hollows for certain holidays (New Year, Easter, etc.).
Know everything to measure
Without measuring spoons and cups, no masterpieces will come out. You need to know in grams, liters or fractions, what, how much and where to add. Therefore, you should acquire similar dimensional sets, they will greatly facilitate the process of preparing any dessert.
Especially picky novice confectioners would be nice to add a kitchen scale to your shopping list along with spoons and measuring cups.
Syringe or cream bag
Tools for the pastry chef, such as a pastry syringe or pastry bag, will help decorate the finished product with roses and frills from airy protein or butter cream. Such a device must necessarily have such nozzles as: “closed (and open) star”, “leaf”, “round”, “petal”. A good half of all decorations for cakes and pastries cannot do without these nozzles.
Whisk and mixer
A very necessary device for whipping some types of dough is a mixer and a whisk. With a mixer, it is better to beat the dough to the desired consistency. A whisk is a convenient and common tool for the pastry chef, helping to whip and maintain the splendor of the cream. Also, a whisk is useful when you need a very delicate mix of ingredients.
Pots and other containers
Tanks in which you can knead the dough, you need several volumes. They are also used to make cream. For example, whip cream in a bowl. Pots make it possible to cook choux pastry for profiteroles and other "choux" baked goods, so beloved by many.
Tassels
A silicone brush, like a brush with a regular bristle, is a very important tool for a pastry chef of any level. With its help, grease baking dishes. Also, the brush can be used while coating products with glaze and cream.
Conventional watercolor brushes are also used in confectionery. Use them to give a more picturesque design of products using food colors.
Timer
To make the baking more successful, even a novice pastry chef should have a timer. The fact is that baking a biscuit dough or making a sweet cream needs not only relying on the appearance of the resulting product, it is often necessary to take time as the basis. With a timer, the task is simplified. It is enough to set the necessary time after which to stop the action (whisk or bake). As a result, the product is more professional, beautiful and tasty.
Different rolling pins are important
Rolling pin is a necessary and useful tool for a pastry chef. She rolls the dough during the preparation of not only cookies, but also various cakes for other products. A larger and heavier tool is useful when you need to roll out a large volume of dough, turning it into a thin pancake. Lighter and miniature rolling pin variations are suitable for forming not very thin cookies.
In general, there are an immense number of rolling pins. They are made from different materials and can have both a flat surface and a textured one with a printed pattern. You can use a rolling pin to work with mastic and to give the surface of the product a certain texture.
Baking mats
They are made of silicone, and therefore the dough does not stick to them. Use of a rug is allowed during baking. It is placed on a baking sheet (sheet) and on top of it put dough pieces that need to be baked. No additional lubrication of inventory is required. Products will not burn.
The mat is not only used in the oven. You can roll out dough for pie or pizza, or dough for cookies.
The article provides examples of only the most common and necessary confectioner's assistants. In fact, the list of such tools and devices is much more extensive.