Bakers have a special knack of seeing opportunities instead of risks. It’s a gift that allows food to make an impact on the world, even if it just starts by helping one person. In this episode, your BAKED in Science host Mark Floerke interviews 81-year-old Marda Stoliar about her adventures baking around the world. [...]
Sugar is one of the absolutely essential bakery ingredients for just about any baked good. First and foremost, it adds that flavor all us sweet tooths love. Yet it is so much more than just a sweetener with many key uses in baked goods. Sugar functions in baking as: Food for yeast: during fermentation to [...]
There's nothing quite like a well-baked croissant: the airy texture, the subtle flavors, the melt-in-your-mouth layers...delicious! However, as any pastry chef will tell you, croissant production must be done just right, especially when you're producing them on a high speed line. What’s the secret to a beautifully flaky croissant? Two things key things are happening: Lamination: a folding [...]
Fondant What is Fondant? Fondant is a glossy hard icing or topping used for covering and decorating cakes and pastries. Technically, fondant is a partially-crystalline confectionery product made of small sucrose crystals in a saturated sugar syrup.1 Hardness of fondant is determined by its water content with typical range from 10 - [...]
Cinnamon Roll Also known as cinnamon bun, cinnamon swirl, cinnamon snail What is a Cinnamon Roll? A cinnamon roll is a sweet baked dough filled with a cinnamon-sugar filling. Made with a rich dough leavened with yeast, their characteristic form is due to rolling a dough sheet containing sweetened cinnamon filling.1 Common [...]
Dough Lamination Also known as dough sheeting and dough folding What is Dough Lamination? Dough Lamination refers to the process of creating multiple, separate layers of dough and fat when making pastry. Under the lamination concept, the dough is wrapped around the fat, and then rolled out and folded over on itself [...]
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Here to kick off a new year—and brand new era of BAKED in Science—is Mark Floerke! With 45 years of industry experience, he knows the ins and outs of baking. And now he’s here to host this podcast, sharing all his knowledge and insight with you. Meet Mark From working in small to large [...]
Pastry Shortening Also known as roll-in or fill-in fat for laminated products What is Pastry Shortening? A pastry shortening is a firm yet malleable specialty fat used in laminated bakery products. It is made of solid and liquid fat blends at a precise ratio or solid fat index (SFI). It can be [...]
What are consumers looking for as they walk into bakeries and stroll down the grocery aisle? The significant trends for the bakery, pastry and chocolate sectors have been rising to the top for 2019. Over the last few years, the bakery international group Puratos has been gathering data from 40 countries and 17,000 consumers. [...]
