Fid? No Problem: February 2011

FID Lesson 2

Breads @ Gluten Ball

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Introduction

Salam And Hello to all our fellow Readers

Our second class is about breads. Our Class was given an assignment or experiment to know what is the best amount of ingredients to make a bread and putting extra additional ingredients in the breadbut in this class, our Group was given an easier task and that task is to make Gluten ball. So our Lecturer, Chef Zaid gave special tasks to each group to make breads while ours the gluten ball. These are the Objectives that our class received from him.

Objectives

Basic Formula - Gluten Ball

Making The Gluten Ball

Our Group Task

As we said earlier on the introduction, our group we're given task to do gluten ball out of 3 types of flour. The All Purpose Flour, Bread Flour and Cake Flour. Our group also needed to bake it.

Baking Conditions

Our Gluten balls we're baked in a preheated oven about 150C (350F) for about 30-40 minutes. Before we baked them, we separated them so that we won't get mixed up with one another.

The Experiments

Here are some of the pictures during our experiment/class

Group 5 feat Chef Zaid himself. Briefing about our objectives

The Flours . from left to right

All purpose , cake and bread

Raw all purpose flour gluten

Raw bread flour

Raw cake flour

to separate the gluten from the flour
we have to wrap the ball of flour into a clean cloth

after that we have to wash the flour

and at the same time squishing out the flour

separating it from the trapped gluten

inside the cloth of sheet

and these are the result after removing the flour and the gluten

Here are the trapped gluten in each of the flour

Our gluten are now separated and ready to be baked

The Ready baked all purpose flour gluten

The Ready baked bread flour gluten

The Ready baked cake flour gluten

The gluten cut in half

all purpose flour's inside texture

Bread flour inside texture

Cake flour inside texture

Finalizing the 3 of the gluten to be analyzed

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Experiments Result Chart

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FID Lesson 1

Angel Cakes

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Introduction

Salam And Hello to all our fellow Readers

For our first class. Our group and Class was given an assignment or experiment to know what is the best method to make an Angel Cake. So our Lecturer, Chef Zaid gave a few task to each group about this experiment and these are the Objectives that our class received from him.

Objectives

Basic Formula - Angel Cake

Making The Angel Cake

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Our Group Task
Every group was given a unique task to perform this experiment and our group was to experiment the angel cake by adding in different amount of Sugar to our angel cakes. We we're told to do 3 different amount of sugar for our experiment starting from Reduced Sugar(80%), Increased Sugar(120%) and Excess Sugar(162%)

Varying The Amount of Sugar