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How Baking Works [Kindle Edition]

Paula I. Figoni
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Understanding and applying food science to the bakeshop-now revised and updated How Baking Works, Second Edition thoroughly covers the entire baking process, emphasizing the "whys" at work behind basic techniques. The book takes the user through the major ingredient groups, explaining how sweeteners, fats, milk, leavening agents, and other ingredients affect the appearance, flavor, and texture of the end product. The coverage also includes scaling and measurements, heat transfer, and sensory properties in baking. This revised and updated Second Edition features: Hands-on exercises and experiments at the end of each chapter, with many involving the sensory evaluation of ingredients Expanded coverage of sweeteners, variety grains, enzymes, starch structure and gelatinization, and gluten structure Important coverage of changes to federal laws, such as food allergen labeling Coverage reflecting consumer awareness of nutrition and health, including information on dietary fiber, trans fats, and trans-free fats in the baking context More photographs to illustrate the science of baking End-of-chapter questions that both review content and require readers to apply and synthesize what they've learned How Baking Works, Second Edition offers a dynamic, hands-on learning experience to both practicing and future bakers and pastry chefs.

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  • File Size: 12781 KB
  • Print Length: 416 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2 edition (May 15, 2008)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B000SI53OW
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,756 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I have thirteen books on baking, and this is the most indispensable of all of them. Without the knowledge you'll gain from this book, you could make the same baking mistakes over and over again... for years... without really knowing WHY something didn't work or what EXACTLY you could do to make it better. Don't buy other baking/recipe books until you've mastered the fundamental baking science you'll learn in "How Baking Works." I promise you it is worth the 20 hours or so you'll spend reading it as it will save you hundreds of hours in averted disasters throughout your baking career. One other tip is to buy books on baking techniques (Wayne Gisslen's "Professional Baking" is a good foundation for techniques). Memorize all of those techniques before you try to perfect any recipe. Once you've committed the science and techniques to memory, go buy baking books that have all of your favorite recipes. They will taste and look better, I promise!
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