Smoked Meats & Delicatessen
Smoked Rosto Versus Roast Beef
Definitions, cut selection, cooking temperature and colour, the role of smoking, texture, slicing, shelf life, uses and price.
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What Does Tahini Bring to Biscuit Dough? Texture and Aroma
The fat and protein structure of tahini, comparison with butter, how it blocks gluten, aroma, ratio limits, bitterness and frozen production.
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- Healthy Eating & Protein
Eating Well at the Office: A Weekly Preparation Guide
Three weak points of office eating, options without a fridge, a weekly prep plan, snack stock, meeting spreads and hydration.
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How to Cook Frankfurters: Simmering Versus Grilling
The product is already cooked, the heating threshold, what boiling does to the emulsion, simmering, grilling, scoring and other methods.
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Why Is Antep Baklava Protected? The Criteria Behind It
What a geographical indication is, designation of origin versus indication, the registered criteria, inspection, what it tells consumers and its limits.
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How Does Choux Pastry Rise? The Secret Behind Profiteroles
How steam raises the dough, gelatinising the starch, egg ratio and the consistency test, the oven curve, opening the door, hollowing and freezing.
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Whole-Muscle Products Versus Formed Products
Definitions of the two methods, tumbling and binding, added water, telling them apart on the cut face, texture, yield, labels, price and uses.
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- Freeze-Drying & Fruit Snacks
Why Do Apples Brown? Colour Retention in Freeze-Dried Apple
The mechanism of enzymatic browning, polyphenol oxidase, oxygen and pH, pre-treatments, colour retention in freeze-drying, storage and assessment.
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- Food Safety & Cold Chain
Can Thawed Food Be Refrozen?
Two separate risks in refreezing, the temperature rule, partly thawed food, texture loss, cooking before refreezing and business rules.
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