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Fran Costigan - Setting Up Your Baking Kitchen For Success
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Setting up your kitchen for dessert-making success involves considering several factors, including the balance between essential tools and nice-to-have items, along with implementing… Read More.
Question:
Do you have any tips for optimizing refrigerator/freezer space, particularly with an eye toward the many chilling steps involved in making pastries?
— Nathaniel Eggleston
Answer:
That's a great question and I'll tell you, you know, now I have this wonderful unit and I, oh my gosh, I went, I went and I looked at refrigerators and freezers and I took sheet pans with me and I wanted to make sure that I would have as much space as I could to put a sheet pan in my fridge if I wanted to. And particularly the freezer. So freezer, so the french door refrigerators, which is what I have. Um, sometimes the freezer space is difficult to get, you know, a pan in. And I found one that was great. So I would say you have to organize your refrigerator and freezer. I go through my pantry, I go through my fridge and freezer every week. And when I am doing a baking day where I have to chill pastries, um, in and out, in and out, I make sure to reconfigure my freezer and refrigerator. So that's a great question. I will tell you that I had, you know, a much smaller refrigerator with a tap freezer before I did my renovation. And I bought a small refrigerator with a very tiny freezer for my back room because I really needed it. And this time of the year I'm in Philadelphia, my terrace can be my freezer, but that's not gonna help you.