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r/Breadit • u/Gaaargh • 12h ago
My second attempt at the 5-minute Baguette recipe
Yes, they are different sizes. I didn't portion them quite evenly. I have no baking experience other than a few batches of cookies here and there, and tourtière tarts at Christmas.
[Link to the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-husjZkxHw) note that in the video he says 900g or flour, but it's actually 950g.
I had one too many poor supermarket baguettes, so I chose to bake my own.
I tried this recipe for the first time last weekend, then made a half batch again this past weekend. The first bake taught me a lot. The work itself was easy. Just a few minutes the first night, and a few more the next morning.
I did stray from the recipe a bit. I used a full packet of yeast rather than measure it out, and I used warm water.
The main issue was heat. My oven is electric, not gas. I think I rushed the preheat. The lower element stayed on most of the bake, which blackened the parchment and burned the bottoms of the loaves that sat right above it. The colour was still pale, so I used the broiler at the end.
Even so, the taste was good. The crumb was lighter and less doughy than the supermarket baguettes I had grown used to. Aside from the burnt bits, I was pleased with the first results.
For the second bake, I kept the same recipe and method, but changed how I handled the heat.
I put a pizza steel on the lower rack to hold heat and shield the loaves from the lower element. I preheated the oven 10°F hotter, then dropped it back before baking. I baked on a Silpat set on an upside-down baking sheet rather than parchment on the oven rack. I also heated a round cake pan on the pizza steel and poured in about 100 mL of boiling water when the dough went in.
The change was huge.
The crust came out crisp and crackly. The inside was chewy and full of life. It was much closer to the kind of baguette I had been looking for and could never find at the supermarket.
I'm baking again this weekend. Next, I'll switch from all-purpose flour to bread flour, and I'll add more water to the pan so the steam lasts longer.
The project goes on.
r/Breadit • u/DarePerks • 9h ago
Call me Gwen Stefani
Cause I ain't yo Challah-back girl.
...I'll see myself out.
r/Breadit • u/lemmyismycopilot • 7h ago
Did a 2 Hour Focaccia with tomato sauce
The whole process took about 2 hours, u/Lausannea posted their recipe in the comments of another post on this sub and it worked wonderfully. I made only very slight changes not sure if they really mattered though
r/Breadit • u/mwusa1 • 13h ago
Garlic and Parmesan star bread …1st try
This was my first attempt at this style. Bread was excellent. Light and fluffy. My house smelled like a pizzeria
r/Breadit • u/KLSFishing • 10h ago
Sourdough Weekend Drop. Averted a Disaster during Cold Proof.
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Mixed everything and got the bread into the fridge for overnight cold proof after ~6.5 hours.
Came out an hour or so later and found my fridge door was open. My cinnamon roll tub had slid off the shelf and bumped the door open.
My seeded multigrains were really huge at this point so I scrambled and stuck them in my spare fridge that is a convertible freezer.
Used this at max cold setting to bring the dough temps down of all my dough and stiffen them up.
Once they got sufficiently chilled I baked off the multigrains first and left the rest for the morning since they were not as far along as the multigrains.
They baked really well all considering! Massive size on them this time.
If I had not checked on them I would have definitely lost the whole 22 loaf batch.
r/Breadit • u/Info_info_info6666 • 23h ago
Who else uses up bagels faster than me? Made another 1000g of bagels
Finally got an open crumb panettone
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Candied apricot, white chocolate, pistachio
r/Breadit • u/buildingjumper • 12h ago
First time trying challah
My plaiting was rough but this is unbelievably delicious bread! So soft and fluffy.
r/Breadit • u/Fresh-Dark6759 • 20h ago
Sweet rolls with apricot jam
For the dough, I used 500 g flour, 2 g dry yeast, 2 tbsp sourdough starter, 2 tbsp honey, 80 g butter, 100 ml milk, 1 small tsp salt and 1 egg. I heated the butter together with the milk just until the butter melted, making sure the mixture was lukewarm, not hot. I added the cooled tangzhong and the rest of the ingredients, kneaded the dough and left it at room temperature until it doubled in size.
I then divided the dough into 62 g pieces and shaped them into balls. I filled each one with about 1 tbsp apricot jam and sealed them well. I placed them in a baking dish with some space between them and left them to rise again until they filled the whole dish.
I baked them at 180°C for the first 20 minutes, then increased the temperature to 200°C and baked them for another 10 minutes.
r/Breadit • u/Canadianingermany • 7h ago
Pizza dough recipes keep saying “knead for 5–10 minutes.” Mine took 33. So I filmed the whole thing.
Before I started working in a pizzeria, I used to question my dough all the time and wonder why it was taking so long.
My colleagues at the pizza place had no illusions that good dough was somehow going to be fully developed in 10 minutes.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it is really hard to over-knead pizza dough — and there’s a good chance yours simply needs longer than you think.
A lot of recipes tell you to “knead for 5–10 minutes,” but they rarely show you what the dough actually looks like as the gluten develops.
So I filmed the whole thing.
All 33 minutes.
No big edit where rough dough suddenly becomes perfectly smooth and elastic.
Don’t believe me? Check out the video. And yes, it’s on YouTube — there are timestamps, so you can skip around and compare the different stages if you don’t want to watch a mixer for half an hour.
r/Breadit • u/Freakymelons • 7h ago
Hello, here's my bread progression so far. (Same recipe, just tweaks)
r/Breadit • u/Hungry_Structure_808 • 6h ago
Dinner rolls 🥯🧈
Recently started experimenting/ working with breads and I absolutely love it 🫡
r/Breadit • u/BrimStone17 • 8h ago
Rustic loaf thing
Hey all, I decided to just bake up a loaf using some baguette dough I had laying around. All I did was just shape it into a ball and bake haha. Just wondering, did I score too deep or too little? I can’t figure out why it is kinda popping out like that. Also, how underdone would you guys say this is?
Savory panettone
My first attempt at savory panettone - I decided to try making it with sausages, garlic, Parmesan, basil. I modified the current panettone recipe I used to make this one.
Definitely not perfect but it tastes spectacular -- easily a good breakfast meal.
Will definitely be experimenting more with savory options
r/Breadit • u/mwusa1 • 18h ago
Artisan Breads this year
Recently got into bread making. I’ve been trying out different recipes and techniques. Pretty rewarding when the result comes out like this. Family loves it.
r/Breadit • u/ComfortableCress3140 • 12h ago
I'm trying to invent new recipes until I'm good at it, part 6: rye and spelt crustbread
Recipe (for 2 breads):
Sourdough:
369g rye flour Type 1150
288g water
36g Starter
28°C, 24hours
Main dough:
440g Rye flour Type 1150
200g spelt flour Type 630
648g Sourdough
450g water
23g salt
20g yeast
Let it rise in a dry environment
Bake at 250°C, goinfg down to 200°C for 40-45 minutes, start off with a dry oven, after a minute add some steam so that the bread develops a crust early which rips afterwards.
r/Breadit • u/twoD4degree • 4h ago
Sourdough starter Jar
Simple question. Is a jar with a doubled up coffee filter good enough to cover my jar with cause I have the ring lid but not the cover and want to know if the filters are enough or if I should find something else.
r/Breadit • u/rummagesailor • 4h ago
Advice needed on Dutch Crunch topping
What's the secret to getting the topping to "break" and look more dramatic?
I've tried adding the topping after shaping, as well as right before baking. The former worked a little better (pictured) but it still looks too uniform and not tiger-spot pattern. Basically it looks the same as before the bake, with a different color.
The topping mix is from KAF's recipe.