Baking

Baking is a cooking method in which the food is loosened in the oven with hot air, is cooked and browned. The baking temperature is between 100 and 250 ° C.

When baking the dough is initially broken up and then solidified by the heat. When baking bread so incurred the crumb crust as well as the surface. Baked are as cakes of all kinds - and bread doughs, as well as pies, casseroles, potatoes, soufflés, puddings, pastry, pizza and cookies. The baked goods sold at Christmas are very diverse in terms of shape, taste and ingredients.

The baking of meat, fish and vegetables is usually done in a pastry crust. The advantages are that the food in batter stays juicy, as it is packed hermetically. Flavourings can not escape and the carbohydrate supplement is already given.

Soggy ( in Bavaria also called Spintig ) can be a bread or cake when the bakery product is not fully baked. This can be caused by too short baking time or low baking temperature. In the professional bakery is, however, still knows far more causes of such errors baking, for example, by the manifold possibilities worse easing by so-called drive errors.