By Miyeilis Flores
Who better than a chef to reveal the culinary secrets What is hidden behind a recipe? In the kitchen, everything has a reason and a purpose. The renowned chef Heinz Wuth explains why the order in which we add the ingredients to make a cakeeven if you maintain the same quantities, gives totally different results.
The specialist in scientific gastronomy put the traditional cake recipe to the test and varied the order of preparation, using exactly the same ingredientsmolds and oven temperature. The results are surprising.
Ingredients for the test: Nefarious Cake Recipe
- 2 eggs.
- 125g butter.
- 200g sugar.
- 210 g cake flour.
- 10 g baking powder.
- 120 g warm milk.
- 1 pinch of salt.
Step by step of the three culinary methods
1. Traditional method
- Procedure: the butter with the sugar until you obtain a smooth cream; then add the eggs and, finally, the flour.
- Result: It is the method that makes the dough grow more. You get a sponge cake with the classic and comforting texture of a traditional pudding.
2. Reverse method
- Procedure: the first is beaten butter with the flour. Besides, they beat the eggs with the sugar and then both mixtures are joined.
- Result: It grows a little less, but its surface is more even and aesthetic.
- Why does it work?: The scientific explanation is that by beating the fat with the flourthis covers the wheat proteinslimiting the gluten formation. Furthermore, the well dissolved sugar in eggs helps retain moisturemaking a cake that melts in the mouth.
3. Reverse method
- Procedure: the first is beaten flour with the eggsadds the sugar and, at the end, the butter.
- Result: It is the one that grows the least, has a more irregular shape and a very crispy crust.
- Why does it work?: here it is demonstrated that the order does matter. Because the sugar does not dissolve completely, a baking precipitation that creates that crispy layer. Furthermore, the air incorporation It is minimal, since the fat added at the closing knocks down the few bubbles formed.
With the same recipe you can obtain very different results. These explanations are very useful because, if we ever forget the order of an ingredient, We don’t necessarily ruin the preparation, but we should know that the final result will change. They are all delicious, only the textures they transform.
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