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LEARN WITH
CHEF MEL

Welcome to baking 2.0! Chef baking techniques, Industry secrets exposed, LIVE baking Q&As, reliable recipes to take your skills to next level. Get the inside scoop, join our baking community and learn to write your own recipes.

Level up it’s your turn! Let’s get baking!

Patisserie Lingo

MEP
Mise en Place

The French Culinary term which means “putting in place”. It refers to the process of prepping, weighing, and chopping of all your ingredients.

Assembling all of your needed utensils, tools, and setting your oven to pre heat (if needed).

Bain Marie

The French Culinary term which means, create a water bath. Simply place a bowl in a small sauce pot with a small amount of water at the bottom. Bring water to a boil, and reduce heat to keep the steam. This technique is often used for things like melting chocolate. 

Beurre
Pommade

Butter that is placed in a bowl in the microwave and GENTLY heated to slightly melt and allow to become very creamy. 

Whisk in between heating to never MELT the butter we want a texture similar to hand lotion. Soft, creamy and still un melted. 

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Pro Baking Tip

Room Temperature
Ingredients

For the best results
always bake with
ingredients at room temp

This will facilitate the mixing
of the ingredients and allow
the mixture to be much smoother.
It also affects the texture of
your baked goods creating a nicer crumb.

If you forget to take your eggs out
early – place them in a bowl of warm
water for about 10 minutes and
they ll get to room temp quickly. 
If you forget to take your butter
out in advance – Slice it into very
thin squares for easy mixing
and combining. DO NOT MELT

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