14/11/2022
TOP 5 BAKING TOOLS
1. MEASURING CUPS AND SPOONS
Most recipes on the internet will most certainly ask you to measure cupfuls or spoonfuls of ingredients. Rather than scuffling through your drawers and figuring out which spoon could possibly be your tablespoon or which cup is adequate enough for your recipe.
2. SILICONE SPATULAS
Silicone spatulas are God’s biggest gift to the baking and the baking tools industry. Available at literally any utensil store or a supermarket, silicone spatulas make your baking and cooking ten times easier and unimaginably convenient. Their foldable character allows you to mix the batter thoroughly and they can go to spots and corners that your normal metal spatula can’t even tough. Not only this, they are highly heat resistant and can help you endlessly while making ganaches or pralines. They’re extremely durable and a good silicone spatula will last you years without getting spoilt. The silicone material also particularly helps you in ensuring that not even a drop of your food is being wasted.
3. BAKING TINS/MOULDS
Evidently, these baking tools are the most necessary, basic, and fundamental ones. I have seen most people also using glass bowls for baking and I have no objection to that, but investing in basic baking tools such as baking pans or moulds will really cost you almost nothing but will get results like nothing else. Most recipes use a nine-inch round baking tin, so you could easily go for that. There are also silicone molds which are increasingly becoming famous for baking. There are certain advantages that these moulds have over aluminium or metal tins such as no sticking of the batter.
4. WHISKS
Whisks have, since time immemorial, been regarded as the primary and cardinal baking tools and I agree to this. All kinds of spatulas and spoons will only help you get the batter together. However, nothing will aid you like a whisk when it comes to combining the ingredients properly and getting the exact consistency that a recipe asks for. They’re by far the most inexpensive baking tools in the list but one that I will be reaching for over and over again. For starters, you can go ahead with a medium sized whisk- one that is comfortable for your hand grip and also gets the work done.
5. MIXING BOWLS
You read it right- baking has specific types of mixing bowls which will help you better than the normal plastic bowls you might be using for your batters or dough.
