What’s on the Thickening poster
A 6-row table: Thickener · Amount · Note.
Per 500 ml of liquid, for a medium thickness.
- Roux (flour + fat) — 30 g each — Cook out the raw taste
- Cornflour slurry — 2 tbsp + cold water — Add at the end; clear
- Arrowroot — 1.5 tbsp — Freeze-stable; do not boil
- Beurre manié — 30 g — Whisk in at the end
- Reduction — — — Best flavour, takes time
- Potato / vegetable — — — Blend some of the dish
Cornflour must be slurried in cold liquid first, or it forms lumps that never disperse. Never add it dry to hot liquid.
Questions about the Thickening poster
- What’s on the Thickening poster?
- A 6-row table: Thickener · Amount · Note. Per 500 ml of liquid, for a medium thickness. Roux (flour + fat) — 30 g each — Cook out the raw taste; Cornflour slurry — 2 tbsp + cold water — Add at the end; clear; Arrowroot — 1.5 tbsp — Freeze-stable; do not boil; Beurre manié — 30 g — Whisk in at the end; Reduction — — — Best flavour, takes time; Potato / vegetable — — — Blend some of the dish. Cornflour must be slurried in cold liquid first, or it forms lumps that never disperse. Never add it dry to hot liquid.
- Who is the Thickening poster for?
- Thickening 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 Thickening poster?
- Different thickeners fail differently. Some cannot be boiled; some cannot be frozen. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Thickening belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Thickening?
- Sauce & Dressing Ratios, Baking Ratios and Cake Ratios sit alongside Thickening in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Sauce & Dressing RatiosBaking RatiosCake Ratios
- Is the Thickening poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Thickening 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 Thickening poster print at?
- Thickening 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 Thickening loses nothing.Printing guide
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