What’s on the Custard Ratios poster
A 6-row table: Custard · Eggs · Result.
Per 500 ml of liquid.
- Crème anglaise — 4–6 yolks — Pouring
- Crème brûlée — 6 yolks — Just set, rich
- Baked custard — 3 whole eggs — Firm, sliceable
- Quiche filling — 3 eggs + 250 ml cream — Savoury set
- Lemon curd — 3 yolks + 1 whole per 100 g sugar — Spreadable
- Ice cream base — 6 yolks — Rich
Custard sets from about 79°C and scrambles by 85°C. That six-degree window is why a thermometer helps.
Questions about the Custard Ratios poster
- What’s on the Custard Ratios poster?
- A 6-row table: Custard · Eggs · Result. Per 500 ml of liquid. Crème anglaise — 4–6 yolks — Pouring; Crème brûlée — 6 yolks — Just set, rich; Baked custard — 3 whole eggs — Firm, sliceable; Quiche filling — 3 eggs + 250 ml cream — Savoury set; Lemon curd — 3 yolks + 1 whole per 100 g sugar — Spreadable; Ice cream base — 6 yolks — Rich. Custard sets from about 79°C and scrambles by 85°C. That six-degree window is why a thermometer helps.
- Who is the Custard Ratios poster for?
- Custard Ratios belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ratios can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Custard Ratios poster?
- More yolk means richer and firmer. Whole eggs set more firmly than yolks alone. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Custard Ratios belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Custard Ratios?
- Baking Ratios, Cake Ratios and Cocktail Ratios sit alongside Custard Ratios in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Baking RatiosCake RatiosCocktail Ratios
- Is the Custard Ratios poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Custard Ratios 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 Custard Ratios poster print at?
- Custard Ratios 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 Custard Ratios loses nothing.Printing guide
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