Assistant cook - acetate film

What holiday in our time passes without a cake or capkake? Culinary professionals create real masterpieces. Sometimes you do not understand how a similar miracle comes from a dough or chocolate. In order for the baking pattern to look original, its three-dimensional image was created, the cooks use in their business such thing as acetate film. About how to use it, let's talk in the article.

How to use acetate film?

Surely those women who are interested in and enjoy baking, on the shelf in the kitchen cupboard is an acetate film. It helps to give to this or that product an intricate form, to work with chocolate, to make a beautiful, volumetric drawing. Many are asking about its safety. It can be said with certainty that the product does not affect the health status. There are no harmful substances that, when interacting with the ingredients, could somehow disturb them or change the taste. The film can be used both in professional kitchens and at home. The mechanism of use is quite simple. The cost of the product depends on the parameters. For example, the price of tape will be more expensive. A standard sheet of film (60x40 cm) can be bought for 30 rubles.

Create a three-dimensional shape of chocolate

Acetate film helps to make three-dimensional shapes. First you need to melt the black chocolate. Use a special spatula or brush to apply a thin layer on the surface of the film, make the desired pattern and put in the refrigerator until completely hardened. This will take no more than 10 minutes. After that, the film needs to be carefully removed and the figure to decorate the confectionery.

A masterpiece at home

The acetate film for the cake is used quite often by experienced culinary experts. But you can work with it at home. Below is a step-by-step recipe. He will show you how to decorate pastries yourself:

• Carefully use a stencil to apply a picture on the film. Food colors are suitable for these purposes.
• Let the image dry completely.
• Fill a thin layer of white chocolate.
• We use a spatula.
• We put it in the refrigerator for freezing.
• Cake the resulting ornament cake.
• Carefully remove the film.
• Stitches are made with a hot knife.

Recently, the acetate film is quite popular. How to replace the product? This issue worries a lot of housewives. Experts advise them not to experiment. After all, thin cardboard, parchment can exfoliate and not hold the shape of a chocolate figure or baking.