Most kids love to eat baked products such as cakes, cookies, brownies, ensaymadas, pandesal and other breads. They also prefer to eat lasagna and bake mac and often requested baked mussels, homemade pizzas and chicken al king baked with mozzarella cheese. The food industry is innovating as well as the children’s taste for food.
So what and how is the proper way to bake? Technically it is done using dry heat and the most important equipment here is the oven. During the drying process, the water or liquid found in the ingredients will be converted by the dry heat into steam that bakes the food. All kinds of food can be baked depending on the recipe and the suitable for the concept of baking such as chicken, fish, bread, fruits and vegetable.
All we need is the baking trays where the food should be placed, since these trays are tolerable of the dry heat produced by the oven. There are different classification of oven depending on its price and needs. For pizza, the most suitable is the brick oven, while for much lower priced oven, we could still use the conventional gas oven.
For exact temperature oven, we could use electric oven and the microwavable oven. When we use the oven in baking, the pre heat the oven to a certain degree to make sure it is ready for cooking and the food is well placed to have an equal heat for all part of the food. Doneness must be ensured before we remove the food and handle it with care to secure ourselves from the heat which can burn our skin.
Baking is not only for pastries, it is also used for main dishes and the nutrients from these are slightly loss but remains in the liquids it produce so most cooks used these as sauce or gravy in the plate presentation. Suitable food for this procedure can include baked stuffed eggplants, apples, rice custard and other seafoods.
Pasta and noodles can also be baked along with cheese and other dairy products. While for pastries and cakes, additional chocolates, strawberries and vanillas along with powdered sugar were added to maintain its nutritional values. However, their waste is minimal and it is eaten as a whole. The most seen characteristics of baked food include the retaining of moisture or sauce for meat and vegetable products and large quantity is used.
