How Baking Works: Exploring the Fundamentals of Baking Science
Understanding and applying food science to the bakeshop—now revised and updatedHow Baking Works, Second Editionthoroughly 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 updatedSecond Editionfeatures:Hands-on exercises and experiments at the end of each chapter, with many involving the sensory evaluation of ingredientsExpanded coverage of sweeteners, variety grains, enzymes, starch structure and gelatinization, and gluten structureImportant coverage of changes to federal laws, such as food allergen labelingCoverage reflecting consumer awareness of nutrition and health, including information on dietary fiber, trans fats, and trans-free fats in the baking contextMore photographs to illustrate the science of bakingEnd-of-chapter questions that both review content and require readers to apply and synthesize what they've learnedHow Baking Works, Second Editionoffers a dynamic, hands-on learning experience to both practicing and future bakers and pastry chefs.