What’s on the Emulsions poster
A 5-row table: Emulsion · Emulsifier · Holds.
How much oil one emulsifier will carry.
- Mayonnaise — 1 egg yolk — Up to ~250 ml oil
- Hollandaise — 1 yolk — ~80 g butter
- Vinaigrette — 1 tsp mustard — ~60 ml oil
- Aioli — 1 yolk + garlic — ~200 ml
- Beurre blanc — Reduction + cream — ~200 g butter
To rescue a split emulsion: start again with a fresh yolk in a clean bowl and whisk the broken mixture into it, slowly.
Questions about the Emulsions poster
- What’s on the Emulsions poster?
- A 5-row table: Emulsion · Emulsifier · Holds. How much oil one emulsifier will carry. Mayonnaise — 1 egg yolk — Up to ~250 ml oil; Hollandaise — 1 yolk — ~80 g butter; Vinaigrette — 1 tsp mustard — ~60 ml oil; Aioli — 1 yolk + garlic — ~200 ml; Beurre blanc — Reduction + cream — ~200 g butter. To rescue a split emulsion: start again with a fresh yolk in a clean bowl and whisk the broken mixture into it, slowly.
- Who is the Emulsions poster for?
- Emulsions 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 Emulsions poster?
- Add the oil slowly at the start. Emulsions break from adding too much, too fast. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Emulsions belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Emulsions?
- Baking Ratios, Cake Ratios and Cocktail Ratios sit alongside Emulsions 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 Emulsions poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Emulsions 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 Emulsions poster print at?
- Emulsions 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 Emulsions loses nothing.Printing guide
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