Six videos showing how to shape boules, bâtards, oblong loaves, baguettes, and sandwich loaves.
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How to Shape Dough
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Bread Baking and Flour Substitution Tips
A lot of people are baking sourdough bread for the first time because of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders. Meanwhile, near-empty baking aisles in grocery stores are giving new and experienced bakers alike the challenge of substituting different flours into recipes they want to follow. Here are some tips and tricks for new and not-so-new bread bakers.
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How to Score Bread
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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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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How To Sprout Grains
Sprouting grains and legumes increases the availability of nutrients, and may make them more digestible. It’s surprisingly easy, takes at most a few days (often less) and doesn’t require specialized tools.
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Challenging Sourdough Starter Convention
We evaluate whether the robust, often complex, sourdough starter refreshing protocol of most home bakers actually results in a better loaf of bread than using a small amount of cold, essentially neglected starter.
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How to Bake a Weekday Sourdough Bread
A set of tips and ideas for making fresh-baked sourdough bread a part of any (or every) weekday.
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Experiments with Laminating Lean Dough
Laminating is a method of gluten development, like stretching and folding, coil folding, hand-kneading, slapping and folding, Rubaud mixing, and stand-mixer mixing.
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Demystifying Sourdough Bread Baking
One baker’s attempt to take some of the mystery out of sourdough bread baking.
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Sourdough Technique Experiment: No Knead vs. The Works
Experimenting with different baking techniques can yield surprising results. In this case, Breadtopia Select Bolted Organic Bread Flour performed as well with the no knead technique as it did with more elaborate gluten developing steps.
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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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Campfire Bread
How we spent a summer vacation
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Baking Bread in a Big Green Egg
A couple years ago I talked about my experience with baking bread in an outdoor grill. One solution to baking yourself out of your own home during the hot summer months. Recently, Breadtopia reader Marianne Preston posted a photo of her success using a Big Green Egg to accomplish the same thing. Since the bread …
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It’s Bread Baking Season
Mark Liptak, who has graciously shared with us on prior occasions, sent in an email the other day appropriately titled “Back At It”. “It” being bread baking, of course. Mark’s got some great tips for handling his no knead bread dough with some excellent photos. Good stuff! In his words… Now that we’re back into …
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Increasing Your No Knead Recipes
Increasing the size of your loaves
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Baking Bread in an Outdoor Grill
Bake Outdoors and Beat the Heat
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Great No-Knead Baking Techniques
Many thanks to Margaret for this well detailed outline of her no-knead baking techniques. Perhaps the best thing about the no-knead method is that it makes quality home bread baking possible for so many more people who would otherwise not have the time or inclination to bother or venture past the bread machine. Margaret notches …
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How to Acquire a Sourdough Starter
3 ways to get your hands on some sourdough starter
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Reviving a Dried & Live Sourdough Starter
It’s easy to bring a dried starter back to life, or resuscitate a live one
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Drying Sourdough Starter For Long Term Storage
Video showing how to store your starter in the freezer for as long as you like. This is not a bad idea, as a routine measure, in order to backup your working batch of starter in case it meets with an unexpected demise.
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How To Make Sourdough Starter
Making your own sourdough starter is easy and it’s the first step in baking delicious artisan bread. Here is the Breadtopia video tutorial and recipe for creating your own wild yeast sourdough.
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