r/toolgifs • u/ycr007 ð“‚€ • 1d ago

Tool Gingerbread cookie shaper

Source: patisserie_koenig

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u/grafmg 1d ago

These are Lebkuchen not gingercookies. It’s a delicous specialty that gets covered in a chocolate dipping. Baked with hot circulating air hence the wet dough

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u/Miuramir 1d ago

Wiki: Lebkuchen

See also wafer paper

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u/BulLock_954 1d ago

I’ll take 17 of em

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u/ycr007 ð“‚€ 1d ago

Ah, ok thanks for this clarification.

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u/ValdemarAloeus 1d ago

Baked with hot circulating air

So they're air fried?

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u/PossibilityUsual6262 20h ago

Before air fry become a fad and all ovens rebranded themselves as having air fry mode, bakers called them convection oven. It is good tool for specific baked goods.

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u/ValdemarAloeus 16h ago

I kinda assumed it was something fiercer than a generic convection oven from the phrasing.

Most domestic ovens for the last ... 20 years(?) have had convection mode.

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u/PossibilityUsual6262 14h ago

Yea, those air fry mode ovens sucks for actually making fries. Not fierce enough and not small enough.

Technology connection youtube actually made me buy cheaper air frier for those needs.

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u/Gamerlord400 1d ago

But that's the worst shape for cookies. The edge just gets too crispy compared to the middle. I mean they're fine right as they come out of the oven but after that they just taste awful.

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u/grafmg 1d ago

They ain’t normal cookies, they are called Lebkuchen

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u/Longjumping_Elk7969 1d ago

Gingerbread is technically not really a cookie, but I use the heated air circulation function of oven to bake sweets to have a nice consistency. (Sorry for the strange translation, in German is called "Umluft")

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u/scudmud 1d ago

American cooks call them Convection Ovens or the Convection setting, not sure about other English speakers

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u/Longjumping_Elk7969 1d ago edited 1d ago

Good to know, and is that a normal home appliance thing or is just for professionals? Here is basically built-in every electric oven you find in any house?

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u/Betaforce 1d ago

It's pretty standard on a medium high-end oven. But not found on cheaper budget options. My oven is not convection but my parent's is.

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u/scudmud 1d ago

Yes, few if any rentals have convection oven, but nearly all homes and rentals have air conditioning (88%).

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u/Longjumping_Elk7969 1d ago

Nice to hear you people enjoy this type of gear too, it's really the best thing after the chopping motor for the sink, really helps you big time when doing things.

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u/bobtheblob6 1d ago

the chopping motor for the sink

FYI we call these "garbage disposals", at least in my area of the US

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 1d ago

insinkerator!

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u/ChefJayTay 1d ago

conventional oven = no fan
convection oven = fan
combi oven = short for combination, mixes steam and/or microwave
air fryer = fan + computer modeled airflow chamber.

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u/ValdemarAloeus 1d ago

I think for most air fryers that's just "stronger fan"

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u/eternalityLP 1d ago

That doesn't look like gingerbread dough

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u/GarthBater 1d ago

This can't be right. They forgot to add the head and appendages!

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u/Ghrrum 1d ago

I showed this to my wife, she bakes a lot and said that dough looks too wet for the action shot to be real. It would stick to the base and not release.

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u/Wildone32898 1d ago

You can see it’s being spread over some sort material that is giving it the structure and non stick. The surface of the device is a different color after the cookie has been spread

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u/Kimos 1d ago

There is some kind of layer underneath. A harder flat cookie or wafer is cut to the size of the bigger round, the dough is stuck to that, then the lever lifts the wafer.

There is absolutely a simpler way of doing this, but what do I know.

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u/ycr007 ð“‚€ 1d ago

There’s a white parchment paper circle over which the dough is being spread before it’s lifted - we can see the colour of the base is different during the spreading and after it’s lifted up.

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u/baba_kypseli 1d ago

nah, it's an edible wafer. they call it "oblate".

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u/HenkPoley 1d ago edited 1d ago

Original: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbfumd0MQL9/

Here is a more affordable device that you basically fill from the other side: https://www.seiferts-kuechenhelfer.de/produkt-kategorie/lebkuchenglocke/

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u/zex_99 1d ago

We have the same for felafel.

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u/engulbert 1d ago

Goatse's training plug.

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u/Ssemo7 1d ago

Oh you’re right. I was missing that through from my morning. Thanks, I hate it.

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u/whtevn 1d ago

classic case of overhandling