Pastry Chefs Mix Chemistry with Artby Kirk Bangstad Do you enjoy baking? Do you express your creativity through textures and tastes? Perhaps you’d enjoy a career as a pastry chef. Being a pastry chef would involve shopping for and preparing ingredients, getting to work early to bake those breads and breakfast pastries, and having a creative flair that helps you decorate various cakes, pies, cookies, and other treats. The reward for this type of work is often a salary ranging between $30,000 and $64,000 per year. If this process sounds like something you’d enjoy, maybe its time you go to culinary school and learn how to become a pastry chef. A Chef EducationMaking pastries is a unique culinary skill, because a good pastry chef usually knows a bit about chemistry. Pastry chefs work with ingredients like yeast and baking soda that react with other ingredients to create certain tastes and textures. To learn how to make a fluffy tart or a flaky croissant, pastry chefs generally need to spend some time in culinary school. Some culinary schools offer chef education programs particularly in baking, while other culinary schools incorporate pastry chef educations into their overall chef education curricula. Becoming a Pastry ChefOnce you’ve acquired the education necessary to become a pastry chef, you’ll have a variety of different career options at your fingertips. You could work at a bakery, or within the restaurant industry. Some baking chefs find work making desserts for catering companies. If you choose to work in the restaurant world, you’ll usually be able to find a job as an assistant to the head pastry chef. Regardless of where you begin, your chef education will pay off, because with hard work, you can have a head start over the competition. SourcesAbout the AuthorKirk Bangstad is a singer living in Chicago, IL. Having received his B.A. in Government at Harvard, Kirk previously worked as a management consultant.
Posted on May 22, 2006 at 11:26 AM
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