Fats and oils in bakery

Fats and oils in bakery. They are tremendously important for many of our products. Most of you will now that fats and oils come with some kind of melting curve, which shows how much of the fat or oil is solid at a certain temperature. But first of all, what is called a fat and what an oil? As a general rule: a fatty source that is liquid at room temperature we call an oil, one that is (semi-)solid we call a fat. That’s the simple part…