How To Become a Professional Baker Baked products come in a variety of shapes and sizes, ranging from baguettes and bagels to more complex confections like macarons and kouign-amann. Bakeries' work surroundings can be just as diverse, making this a versatile career path with numerous alternatives. We describe how to become a professional baker in this book, covering the education, certifications, skills, and experience required to advance on this career path. A baker combines raw materials to make breads, pastries, pies, cakes, cookies, tarts, and other baked items. Though the traditional definition of a baker is someone who works in his own bakery and caters to a local market, bakers may also work in specialty shops or restaurants where they produce smaller quantities for consumption on-site, or in manufacturing positions where they oversee the production of large quantities of goods for distribution. To become a baker, you must either enroll in a training program in a supermarket or apprentice with a craft baker. If you want to learn how to become a baker, start with Step 1.
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