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GELTING AGENTS
If you need to buy gelatin or buy pectin, you are at the right place.
If you want to buy gelatin with strong gelling properties, 220 bloom Ewald Mesh granules will do. It is perfect for making aspic, jellies, cakes, sweets, mousses, creams, marshmallows and ice cream. Important: this gelatin is not felt in taste, color or smell of the finished product. Depending on the concentration, it can give not only gelling properties, but also act as a thickener, stabilizer or emulsifier.
How to prepare granular gelatin?It is simply soaked in liquid. Proportion for gelation: 1 g of gelatin per 9 ml of liquid. Swelling time from 15 minutes. After swelling, gelatin is heated, stirred until dissolved, and only then is it added to cream, sauce, etc.
Pectinhas a lot of advantages, and can act as a gelling agent, stabilizer, thickener, water-retaining agent, clarifier.Pectinmust be introduced into the workpiece at a temperature of 50C of the heated mass, not forgetting to mix it with part of the sugar that goes to the recipe. This is necessary so that the pectin is evenly distributed, and does not seize in lumps (in this case, it will lose some of its gelling power). The amount of sugar, while should be two to three times more. Having added dissolved pectin with sugar to the main mixture, the mass must be brought to a boil, since pectin begins to act at a temperature of 100C. Boil for no more than half a minute, then remove from the stove and let cool.
agar agar insoluble in cold water! It completely dissolves only at temperatures from 95 to 100 degrees. It is also a thermoreversible product, which allows, by heating it to 85-95 degrees, to convert it back into a liquid solution.
Advantages agar-agar in relation to gelatin: a useful plant product that does not have any contraindications, thermoreversible, high melting points (products gelled with agar-agar do not float at room temperature), has no taste and smell, agar-agar inhibits the development of microorganisms (antibacterial property contributes to extending the shelf life of cooked foods).
Buy PECTIN and Agar-Agar in UkraineYou can in the INVENT online store.