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Element 5: Store gateaux, tortes and cakes
Element 5:
Store gateaux, tortes and cakes
5.1 Store at correct temperature and conditions of
storage
and
5.2 Maintain maximum eating quality, appearance
and freshness
Gateaux and Tortes can be harder to store than
other bakery products.
Product needs to be stored at correct temperature
and conditions may relate to:
Away from strong odours
All gateaux need to be protected from strong odours
like onion, garlic that may be present in some
coolrooms in kitchens.
In larger kitchens there will be dedicated controlled
storage for gateaux and tortes.
Controlled storage is a term that covers ‘chilled, enclosed spaces’ and ‘room temperature,
enclosed spaces’ areas.
Cool room temperature
Most Gateaux will need to be chilled because of the nature of the ingredients.
All food coolrooms must operate below 4ºC.
Some tortes do not need to be chilled and should
not be chilled because chilling will spoil the flavour
of the product.
Appropriate containers
Placing gateaux and tortes into boxes when sold is
the best way of ensuring that the product travels to
the place on consumption intact.
Care needs to be taken that edges and top
decorations are not damages when packages do
not get damaged.
When applying decorations packages sizes need to
be taken into considered.
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