What Is A Collage To Go To And Training.
What Career Paths Can You Follow With This Education.
What Are The Main Duties Of A Baker.
What Work Experience Do You Need.
What Is The Expected Salary.
College - None - Culinary School might be of some advantage - but it depends on what you’re baking. If you plan to start your own business - college courses in business administration would be useful.
Career Paths - Work in a bakery, grocery deli that bakes it’s own bread, wedding cake shop, any resturant that makes its own baked goods
Duties: prepare dough, bake the dough, make cakes, cookies, donuts, etc. clean, purchases, inventory, budgets
Experience: none to start out as a bakery helper
Expected salary: entry - $7/hr experienced: $40,000/year
Make more by running your own bakery.
My friend attended Johnson and Wales.. which is a culinary college in Rhode Island.. She now is the top pastry chef for a major caterer (sp?) and makes $50,000+ / year.
My father was a ‘Master’ baker with Christie Brown bought out by Nabisco.
He had a very basic education and left school at 13 yrs of age, not an unusual thing in the 1930’s. He apprenticed for 5 years at a bake shop with 3 other bakers, one a Master, the others in various years of their apprenticeships. Career paths would depend on your ambition and finances. To be the best baker or to own your own business, in which case education and finance is to be expected at some point. The main duty of a baker is to ensure scrupulously clean premises , follow the recipes and learn to adjust to temperatures and humidity levels to ensure the end product is excellent every time it is baked. Work experience is still on the job experience even if you go to College and/or Culinary school.
Expected salary is always more than you will receive. Bakers and pastry chefs do not earn a lot of money and the products have an extremely short shelf life, therefore, quite a lot of loss if you have overanticipated the need of the buying public.
You will note that there are very few of the hundreds of thousands of bakers out there are entrepeneurs and have their own television shows.
One thing to be sure, Bakers are respected because we all love our Daily Bread, fresh.
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1 Prophet 1102
College - None - Culinary School might be of some advantage - but it depends on what you’re baking. If you plan to start your own business - college courses in business administration would be useful.
Career Paths - Work in a bakery, grocery deli that bakes it’s own bread, wedding cake shop, any resturant that makes its own baked goods
Duties: prepare dough, bake the dough, make cakes, cookies, donuts, etc. clean, purchases, inventory, budgets
Experience: none to start out as a bakery helper
Expected salary: entry - $7/hr experienced: $40,000/year
Make more by running your own bakery.
2 Cassandra K
My friend attended Johnson and Wales.. which is a culinary college in Rhode Island.. She now is the top pastry chef for a major caterer (sp?) and makes $50,000+ / year.
Good luck!
3 MYRA C
My father was a ‘Master’ baker with Christie Brown bought out by Nabisco.
He had a very basic education and left school at 13 yrs of age, not an unusual thing in the 1930’s. He apprenticed for 5 years at a bake shop with 3 other bakers, one a Master, the others in various years of their apprenticeships. Career paths would depend on your ambition and finances. To be the best baker or to own your own business, in which case education and finance is to be expected at some point. The main duty of a baker is to ensure scrupulously clean premises , follow the recipes and learn to adjust to temperatures and humidity levels to ensure the end product is excellent every time it is baked. Work experience is still on the job experience even if you go to College and/or Culinary school.
Expected salary is always more than you will receive. Bakers and pastry chefs do not earn a lot of money and the products have an extremely short shelf life, therefore, quite a lot of loss if you have overanticipated the need of the buying public.
You will note that there are very few of the hundreds of thousands of bakers out there are entrepeneurs and have their own television shows.
One thing to be sure, Bakers are respected because we all love our Daily Bread, fresh.