Engineering:Mold (cooking implement)

Short description: Container for holding and shaping food

Bundt-style silicone and metal pans (2008)

Late 19th- and early 20th-century food molds

A mold (American English), or mould (British and Commonwealth English), is a container used in various techniques of food preparation to shape the finished dish. The term may also refer to a finished dish made in said container (e.g. a jello mold).

Types

Molds can be used for a variety of foods:

• Cake molds (e.g. muffin tins, Bundt cake, angel food cake pans, and other types of bakeware)
• Springform pan
• Gelatin dessert molds (also known as "jelly molds")
• Ice cream and other frozen desserts
• Mousse
• Butter

See also

• List of cooking vessels
• List of food preparation utensils
• Bowl
• Molding (process)
• Pastry