Professional Baking : Study Guide (3rd Edition)

By Wayne Gisslen

Book Overview

The classic professional baking reference-- now completely revised and updated This Fourth Edition of the 2002 IACP Cookbook Award Winner for Best Technical/Reference gives professional and home bakers peerless up-to-date coverage of the theory and practice of baking. Keeping pace with current trends in the field, the new edition includes new chapters on artisan breads and baking and pastry equipment, plus 125 new color photographs and 50 extra illustrations showcasing more procedures and finished dishes. Complete with more than 750 classic and creative recipes to explore-- including 150 from Le Cordon Bleu-- Professional Baking offers an excellent foundation for mastering the art and craft of baking. Wayne Gisslen (Long Lake, MN) is the author of the bestselling series of culinary books that includes Advanced Professional Cooking (0-471-83683-4), Professional Cooking (0-471-43625-9), Professional Baking (0-471-59508-X), and The Chef's Art (0-471-83684-2).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471417742
• ISBN13: 9780471417743
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.1" x 0.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

For the future professional baker

This is another of the books I use as reference for my cooking school. It contains recipes from Le Cordon Bleu schools and recipes from America. Most of the recipes are for large quantities and it is definately not a book for the home baker, this is a great reference book to be used in a professional pastry kitchen. I particularly like this book because it gives you a basic recipe for let's say a bavarois cream, and then it gives you ten other variations (chocolate, coffee, strawberry, etc) that you can make by changing or adding one or two ingredients. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who is thinking of baking seriously.

No baker should be without this

This is not a cookbook for the home baker, but no professional should be without this all encompassing book.

Not necessarily for the novice...

I also had to purchase this book for culinary school. While this book can be difficult to understand, the quality of the instructor has a great deal to do with the user's comprehension of the subject matter. I find this an excellent book and continue to use it today (because I know how to make it work for me).NOTE: The formulas in this book work, provided you have had proper instruction in how to use them, and in how to use Baker's Math to increase and reduce the yields.

Book gives recipes with consistent results

Book written for the professional baker which is adaptable to the home baker. Everything is weighed which is not so hard to do. Does require a small fairly accurate kitchen scale in $20 range. Does point out why some favorite recipes have a bad habit of flopping when you are trying to make them for special occasion(for example: flour varies in the water content, which does affect end product). You must be able to downsize recipes for home use.