Baker: fun facts

Fun facts about baker's training and the baking profession. From "Heel Holland Bakt" to the biggest birthday cake ever!

• Good news: our economy is improving again. Bakeries are desperate for well-trained staff. There is a lot of work in the baking world at the moment.
• Are flour and meal the same thing? Not at all. If you grind wheat grains, you get flour. But if you sift the flour, you're left with plain flour. Delicious for white bread. With chocolate sprinkles.
• The largest birthday cake ever was made last August at the Laundry Festival in Belgium. The cake was 17 meters long, 15 wide and 60 centimeters high!
• Working in a bakery is quite demanding; you have to lift a lot of heavy things and stand on your feet for long periods of time. During busy periods, such as Easter and Mother's Day, you will also sometimes work long days.
•  It is logical that you need to be able to bake well, but social skills are also very important in the profession. You have to get along well with your colleagues, especially as a manager. 
• As a baker you have to get out of bed on time. If you're not an early bird, you can become a chocolatierThese days, they sometimes don't start work until around half past eight. 
• You can make it big! For example, Lotte Dierick (winner of the Golden Gard 2016) works at the famous restaurant Gebaar van Roger in Antwerp and Boudewijn Nijmijer started a chocolate shop in Kuwait.
• But you can also become the proud owner of your own business and lure your customers in with the smell of your homemade bread. Because, let's face it, What smells better than freshly baked bread?
• Where are all those delicious cakes from Heel Holland Bakt? There's not a crumb left! The bakers taste their colleagues' pastries, and the entire film crew throws itself into what remainsWe got that from Janny herself.