Okuzeka
Culinary Arts & Cooking vocabulary · Kitchen Equipment

Baking beans

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, baking beans means: Small weights placed on lined pastry to limit puffing during blind baking.

In Turkish: ön pişirme ağırlıkları

How it is used

Also called pie weights; the term can refer to reusable ceramic pieces.

Example sentences

  1. The tart shell was filled with baking beans over parchment.

    The weights hold down the pastry while the empty shell bakes.

  2. Remove the baking beans before finishing the pastry base.

    The weights serve one stage rather than becoming part of the tart.

Common collocations

  • ceramic baking beans
  • pie weights
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.
  • pastry chefA chef who specialises in desserts, pastries, breads and other baked goods and usually runs the pastry section of a kitchen. Also called a pâtissier.

More terms: Kitchen Equipment

Practise with graded reading

Reading at the right level is the fastest way to make new words stick. Pick free English books by level: