Khachapuri is a traditional Georgian cheese bread. Its shape resembles a boat. With the cheese representing the sea and the egg yolk representing the Sun. To me it represents a chance to tuck into an abnormal amount of delicious molten cheese. It is topped with an egg...
It is common to see instructions for degassing or punching down bread dough. But what does this step achieve and what would happen if it was skipped? Degassing, folding, dividing, pre-shaping and final shaping all go hand in hand. style="display:block;...
Call it what you want – it is the bread with the crunchiest crust ever. Dutch crunch bread originated in the Netherlands as the name suggests. There are various versions of this bread. It can be a super soft white loaf or individual little buns, or even long...
Learning to calculate individual ingredients for a certain dough mass will make you fit the loaf in the tin every time. It will take out the guess work when making a certain number of breads of certain weight. Be it loaves or rolls, you will always know the exact...
Regular brioche with its 40% – 50% butter is already quite rich. But I wanted to see whether a 100% butter dough would even be possible to make. It totally is! Any fat that is added to bread dough inhibits gluten formation. The more fat is added the more difficult it...
