Section 05 · 5 pieces
Faults
What each process looks like when it goes wrong.
What the section is about
- Mechanism
- Every fault is a variable that moved, and each process moves in its own way.
- Variables
- Which of the four processes you were running when it collapsed.
- Fault
- Here the fault is the subject: what the batch looked like, and what that appearance names.
Pieces in this section5 of 26 across the site
- 05.1Reading a failed batchEach process fails in a characteristic way, and the fault names the variable that was wrong.
- 05.2The curd that never cameToo cool, too dilute, or the coagulant added too fast.
- 05.3Rubbery or crumblyTwo opposite gluten faults with two opposite causes.
- 05.4The cake that greyedLeft too long, too warm, or wrapped too tightly.
- 05.5The foam that weptLiquid pooling under the peak, and the sugar that would have held it.