Decorative scoring of your artisan bread can really enhance its appearance and make a loaf look and feel special. We’ve compiled some scoring tips and tricks along with video demonstrations.
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How to Score Bread
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Experimenting with Refrigerated Final Proofing
What are the effects of extending the length of your final proof by putting your dough in the refrigerator? We do some experiments with 18 and 40 hour refrigerated final proofs and present the results here.
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Eric’s Sourdough Waffles
I still marvel at how anything this simple and easy can be so good. Herein lies the magic. Start with great ingredients and let nature, in the form of wild yeast and time, do its thing.
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Artisan Style Gluten Free Bread
I had given up on baking good gluten free bread at home until I found this gluten free bread flour mix. This one uses no gums, doesn’t require eggs, and allows you to make a crusty artisan style loaf of bread that comes as close as I’ve experienced to regular wheat bread.
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Whole Grain Challah
My latest bread obsession involves trying to convert normally all white flour recipes to healthy and tasty whole grain versions while maintaining the light and soft texture typical of the originals. This challah recipe does the trick for me.
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Gluten-free Free
There is an increasing body of evidence that (aside from Celiac disease) many of the health issues related to eating wheat and gluten are more specifically related to the consumption of modern wheat processed via a roller mill into white flour and baked through a very rapid, mechanized process utilizing commercial yeast.
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Grilled Sourdough Pizza
Great pizza at home with sourdough crust baked in a standard backyard barbecue grill!
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How To Make Bagels
Welcome to Bageltopia; the Breadtopia bagel recipe and video tutorial for making genuine Vermont sourdough bagels (i.e. the best bagels in the world).
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A Grain Mill for Every Kitchen
With the wealth of options in countertop grain mills, it’s now quite easy and affordable to be able to mill your own flour at home. I recently compared three new mills: the Mockmill KitchenAid Grain Mill Attachment, the NutriMill Plus, and the NutriMill Harvest with a longstanding favorite, the Komo Fidibus Classic.
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Whole Wheat Pita Bread
Good pita bread is magic. Seriously! We’ve found that even leftovers otherwise destined for the chickens (ok, we don’t have chickens but we do have a compost bin), are magically transformed, in a pita pocket, to a culinary delight. Try it yourself. You’ll be amazed. So imagine how much more amazed you’ll be when you …
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Eric’s Easy Bake – Episode 4
Soft Pull-Apart Dinner Rolls. Hamburger & Hotdog Buns Too! Enriched dough is a wondrous thing. There’s so much good that can come from it. Here are a couple of examples with far reaching benefits for humanity.
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Eric’s Easy Bake Series – Episode 3
Sometimes a crusty artisan loaf with big holes doesn’t quite cut it. For sandwiches, a bread that’s light and tender, easy to chew, flavorful but not overpowering, kid friendly yet wholesome is often the way to go. This bread is it.
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Eric’s Easy Bake Series – Episode 2
Here’s a technique for basic bread that should appeal to a wide range of tastes. It’s pretty great by itself yet flexible enough to take in a few directions. With minimal hands on practice you’ll quickly get to know how much or how little flour to add to achieve your desired outcome.
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Eric’s Easy Bake Series – Episode 1
My easy bake series attempts to distill bread baking to its bare essentials and focus on what I think is all you really need to know to make good bread for you and your family.
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British Bread Adventures Pt 4
My fascination with Poilâne bread began over 10 years ago with a publication in Smithsonian magazine on the venerable bakery. …Denyce and I visited their Elizabeth Street London location on our recent travels around the UK. I realize it’s sacrilege to speak disparagingly about Poilâne bread, but I’m still not getting what the fuss is about.
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How to Make Baguettes
The Breadtopia baguette recipe and video tutorial for almost no-knead baguettes. Easier than you thought, as delicious as you hoped.
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UuniVersity
Instructional videos on using an Uuni wood fired pizza oven
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Whole Wheat Croissants
Pastry Heaven. Imagine enjoying a fabulously decadent croissant where you actually feel nourished instead of dazed by a refined sugar and flour induced stupor. Well, here you go…
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Breadtopia Visits the Asheville Bread Festival
North Carolina should change its nickname from the “Tar Heel” state to the “Artisan” state. And Asheville, NC might rightfully lay claim to the Artisan Bread Capital of the World. Nowhere else will you find such a assemblage of talented bakers and quality hand crafted breads. Once a year, most of these bread artists gather …
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Uuni Wood Fired Pizza Oven
Uuni Now Available in Our Store Here’s something exciting for the gazillion people who love wood fired pizza. Pizza enthusiast and inventor, Kristian Tapaninaho (right), has invented a light weight portable wood fired oven named Uuni, designed to replicate world class pizza at home. Only this one will set you back a mere few hundred …
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Pie Crust Cookies
A great low sugar kid (and everyone else) treat.
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Aloo ka Paratha
Indian Potato Stuffed Flatbread
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Breadtopia Visits The School of Artisan Food
Eric & Denyce’s Excellent Breadventure Life got particularly good for us a few months ago when we paid a visit to The School of Artisan Food in Nottinghamshire England. Nestled in Sherwood Forest (yes, that one) we found a bit of artisan food heaven. It was pure joy and a privilege to spend time with Emmanuel …
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Campfire Bread
How we spent a summer vacation
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