How to Make Bread | Basics - Rouxbe Cooking School Lesson

While there are endless types of bread that one can make, in order to make a basic loaf of bread, a beginner baker must first understand the functions of the fundamental ingredients. Once these concepts are understood, working with additional ingredients and more complex techniques will be much easier to understand and execute down the road.

 In this Rouxbe Cooking School lesson on How to Make Bread | Basics, you will learn about flour, yeast, water and salt and their functions in bread making. You will also learn about the necessary tools required for making basic bread. In the next lesson, you will learn about the stages of bread making, so you can bake crusty loaves of bread in your own kitchen. Rouxbe Facts about this lesson that you may find interesting:

• Over 15 hours of footage was recorded.
• Over 600 shots were captured.
• 23 batches of dough had to be made to capture all of the different stages of bread making for this lesson and the lesson to follow.
• This does not include the many days of pre-production it took to research, write, shop and organize the lesson before cameras even began rolling. It also doesn't include the time required to edit, critique, record voice over, develop the quiz, and all the other things it takes to make a lesson go live.
• And, of course, during filming, we couldn't live on bread alone, so we always have to think about lunch. When we think about lunch, we think about the following things: 1) it needs to be fast, or better yet, it needs to be prepared ahead of time; 2) for this lesson, it couldn't take up oven space; and, 3) most importantly, it has to be delicious. Here is what we made the day before the shoot - Puerco Pibil. Yes, of course, we took pictures (click here for the Puerco Pibil recipe).

Hope you enjoy the lesson and Happy Baking!

The Rouxbe Cooking School Team.

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