What’s on the Caramelisation poster
A 8-row table: Stage · Temp · Use.
Sugar cooked alone, by temperature.
- Thread — 110°C — Syrups
- Soft ball — 115°C — Fudge, fondant
- Firm ball — 120°C — Caramels
- Hard ball — 125°C — Nougat, marshmallow
- Soft crack — 140°C — Toffee
- Hard crack — 150°C — Brittle, lollipops
- Caramel — 160–180°C — Sauce, decoration
- Burnt — 190°C+ — Discard
Caramelisation is sugar breaking down; the Maillard reaction needs protein as well. Onions do both at once.
Questions about the Caramelisation poster
- What’s on the Caramelisation poster?
- A 8-row table: Stage · Temp · Use. Sugar cooked alone, by temperature. Thread — 110°C — Syrups; Soft ball — 115°C — Fudge, fondant; Firm ball — 120°C — Caramels; Hard ball — 125°C — Nougat, marshmallow; Soft crack — 140°C — Toffee; Hard crack — 150°C — Brittle, lollipops; Caramel — 160–180°C — Sauce, decoration; Burnt — 190°C+ — Discard. Caramelisation is sugar breaking down; the Maillard reaction needs protein as well. Onions do both at once.
- Who is the Caramelisation poster for?
- Caramelisation belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning technique can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Caramelisation poster?
- It goes from perfect to burnt in seconds. Have the next step ready before you start. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Caramelisation belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Caramelisation?
- Batch Cooking, Blanching and Braising sit alongside Caramelisation in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Batch CookingBlanchingBraising
- Is the Caramelisation poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Caramelisation downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Caramelisation poster print at?
- Caramelisation is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Caramelisation loses nothing.Printing guide
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