Baking Tools and Equipment

• Baking tools and equipment are essential for bread and pastry making.

Baking Wares

• These are glass or metal containers that come in various shapes and sizes.
• They are used for holding batter and dough.

Cake Pans

• These come in different sizes and shapes like round, square, rectangular, or heart-shaped.

Tube Center Pan

• Deeper than a round pan, it has a hollow center, used for baking chiffon cakes.

Muffin Pan

• Features 12 formed cups, used for baking muffins and cupcakes.

Pop Over Pan

• Specially constructed to directly convey heat to batter, especially for cooking popovers.
• The batter needs to be added on a hot pan to cook popovers, similar to making Yorkshire puddings

Jelly Roll Pan

• A shallow, rectangular pan that is suitable for baking rolls.

Bundt Pan

• This is a round pan with scalloped sides used for baking elegant and special cakes.

Custard Cup

• Made of porcelain or glass, this is used for baking individual custards.

Griddle Pans

• Intended to make anything benefiting from cooking on a flat surface with consistent heat.

Loaf Pan

• It is specifically used for baking loaf bread.

Biscuit and Doughnut Cutter

• This is used to cut and shape biscuit and doughnut.

Cutting Tools

• Knives and chopping boards are used to cut glazed fruits, nuts, and other baking ingredients.

Electric Mixer

• An electric mixer can be used for different baking procedures, such as beating, stirring, and blending.

Flour Sifter

• It is used for sifting flour.
• Its purpose is to aerate and break up clumps.
• It also removes unwanted debris or impurities from the flour.

Grater

• Can be used to grate cheese, chocolate, and fresh fruits.

Kitchen Shears

• Ideal for cutting pastry dough into decorative shapes for pies, and for snipping vents in the top crust to allow steam to release.

Measuring Cups

• These are primarily used to measure the volume of liquid or bulk solid cooking ingredients like flour and sugar.

Measuring Spoon

• These are used to measure small quantities of both dry and liquid ingredients.

Mixing Bowl

• Mixing bowls come in graduated sizes and have sloping sides for mixing ingredients.

Mortar and Pestle

• These tools are used to pound or grind ingredients.

Pastry Bag

• This is a funnel-shaped bag that holds icing or whipped cream.

Pastry Blender

• Contains handles with wires, used to cut fat or shortening when preparing pies, biscuits, and doughnuts.

Pastry Brush

• Used for greasing pans and brushing the surface of pastries and breads.

Pastry Tips

• Small, cone-shaped tools that pipe creams onto pastries, cakes, and other desserts.

Pastry Wheel

• Features a blade knife used to cut dough when making pastries.

Rotary Egg Beater

• Includes a beater with single or double metal blades.
• Blades rotate when a geared wheel is mashed and operated by hand.

Rolling Pin

• Used to flatten or roll dough.

Rubber Scrapper

• Commonly used to remove bits of food inside the bowl.

Spatula

• Has a long flexible blade, usually metal.
• Works well for frosting the sides of a cake and creating a smooth, level finish.

Timer

• Used for timing baked products, the rising of yeast, and checking the doneness of cakes.

Weighning Scale

• Measures ingredients in large quantities.

Wire Whisk

• Used to beat or whip egg whites and cream.

Wooden Spoon

• Also called a mixing spoon.
• Comes in various sizes suitable for different kinds of mixing.

Cake Decorator

• Used in decorating or designing cakes and other pastry products.

Cookie Press

• It is used to mold and shape cookies.

Mechanical Oven

• Is an equipment to cook food using heat in a controlled way.
• Can use open fire, gas fire, electric heating, and radiation energy for cooking.
• It is essential for producing bakery products.

Rack Oven

• Used to bake everything from breads to pastries.
• Considered a good, all-purpose oven.

Dutch Oven

• Made of hard-anodized aluminum for even heating.
• Comes with a heat-resistant and non-stick ceramic coating.