Oven: Oven is the main force of baking and an indispensable tool. Choosing a favorite oven is the first step in baking delicious western pastry.
Microwave ovens can't replace ovens. Their heating principles are completely different. There is no microwave oven with barbecue function.
Measuring spoon, kitchen scale
Baking is an absolutely indispensable tool. West Point is different from Chinese food. It pays attention to quantity and the proportion of ingredients must be accurate.
Baking tray, baking net, heat-insulating handle
Most bread, biscuits and cakes need to be baked on a baking tray. It is better to have two baking trays, which is more convenient for daily use (such as biscuits, not one baking tray). If you have two baking pans, you can prepare the second baking pan when the first baking pan is baking. Grilled nets can be used not only to roast chicken wings and kebabs, but also as a cooling rack for bread and cakes. Insulated handles (or gloves) can prevent you from getting burnt when holding the baking tray/baking net. These three tools are usually equipped when buying an oven.
Manual eggbeater and electric egg beater.
Whether it's butter, eggs or whipped cream, you need an eggbeater. When some wet materials are mixed together, an eggbeater is needed.
Electric egg beater is more convenient and labor-saving, and it is difficult to beat whole eggs, so you must use electric egg beater. But electric egg beater is not suitable for all occasions. For example, when sending a small amount of butter, or when it is not necessary to send it, just stir the eggs, sugar and oil, and it will be more convenient and faster to use a manual eggbeater. Therefore, both kinds of eggbeaters need to be equipped.
Rubber scraper, plastic scraper
Plastic scraper (I) is a small and useful tool, which can be used in many occasions. When kneading dough, the dough stuck to the chopping board can be shoveled off with it. It can also help us move the shaped dough to the baking tray.
Rubber scraper (bottom) is a flat soft scraper, which is suitable for mixing batter. It is the most powerful tool when making Qifeng cake and mixing egg white paste with egg yolk paste. And while stirring, it can be tightly attached to the bowl wall to scrape off the cake paste attached to the bowl wall.
Stainless steel basin, glass bowl
At least two stainless steel pot or large glass bowls should be prepared to beat eggs, and some small bowls should be prepared to hold all kinds of raw materials.
Chopping board, rolling pin
These two things need not be introduced. However, it needs to be added that it is more recommended to use non-wooden chopping boards to make pasta. Such as metal and plastic chopping boards. Compared with wooden chopping boards, it is not easy to stick and breed bacteria.
Tin paper, oil paper
The baking tray is padded with paper to prevent it from sticking to the baking tray. Sometimes greasing the baking tray can also prevent sticking, but using padding paper can avoid the trouble of cleaning the baking tray. Oil paper is cheaper than tin foil. But tin foil can wrap food during barbecue to prevent water loss. In the baking process, covering the surface of food with a layer of tin foil after coloring can also prevent over-coloring.
flour sifter
Used for screening flour or other powdery raw materials. Sieving flour can not only remove small flour particles from flour, but also make flour more bulky and beneficial to mixing. If there are cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and other powders. In raw materials, it is helpful to mix with flour and sieve.
Round cake mold?
If you don't make a cake, it's not really baking. There must be at least an 8-inch or 6-inch round cake mold. It will be easier to demould if you buy a movable bottom die. If you want to make Qifeng cake, don't buy non-stick cake molds.
Part II: Baking tools.
measuring glass
Measuring cups, like measuring spoons, are also tools for measuring and quantifying raw materials. The reason why I don't list it as a necessary tool is because in my blog, basically all recipes don't use "cups" as a unit.
Decorative mouth and bag
It can be used to hold flowers. When making cookies and puffs, you can also use them to squeeze out colorful batter. Different nozzles can extrude different patterns, and you can buy a single nozzle or a whole set of nozzles as needed.
Installing turntable
Tools for making decorative cakes. Putting the cake on the turntable can easily smooth the whipped cream and decorate it.
Cake scraper
When making a table flower cake, it is used to smooth the whipped cream on the cake.
Various styles of cake paper cups
It can be used to make muffins and other cupcakes. There are many sizes and colors to choose from, and you can buy them according to your hobbies.
Tu Simo
If you want to make toast, this is a necessary tool. It is recommended to buy 450 grams of toast molds and make them at home.
Circular cutting die
A set of knife dies of different sizes can cut round dough pieces. In addition to this round shape, there are chrysanthemum-shaped knife dies.
Tower mold, pie plate
An essential tool for making pies and tower snacks. Friends who often come to my blog should know that there is a classification in the blog, which is "West Point of Pie and Tower". To make this kind of western pastry, towers and pies are necessary. There are many specifications of pies and trays, with different sizes, shades and laces, which can be purchased as needed.
brush
Many snacks and bread need to be brushed with a layer of brush liquid before baking in order to be beautifully colored. This is when the brush comes in handy.
Various tools
Coarse serrated knife is used to cut toast, fine serrated knife is used to cut cake, ordinary medium knife can be used to divide dough, small scraper is used to coat stuffing and jam, fruit knife is used to treat all kinds of fresh fruits as baking raw materials ... In short, choose different knives according to different needs. Of course, you don't have to care so much. A knife travels all over the world.
Pudding mold, cupcake mold
Used to make various puddings, cupcakes, etc. This small mold has various styles and can be purchased according to your own hobbies.
bread maker
Making bread and kneading dough at home are both manual jobs. So many students choose toasters. Most of the bread baked directly by the bread machine is not very delicious, so generally everyone ignores its function of baking bread and only regards it as a tool for kneading dough.
However, the shortcomings of the toaster are also obvious. Because the power is low and the kneading efficiency is low, it takes a long time to knead the dough well. Moreover, the heat generated in the process of kneading dough cannot be dissipated, and kneading dough for a long time will lead to excessive dough temperature. If you knead the dough by hand, you can personally feel the changing process of the dough, and it is more fun to make bread by hand.