The Stages of Bread Making | Rouxbe Cooking School Lesson

There is something magical about combining the simplest ingredients and kneading them together with your very own hands to create a beautiful, rustic loaf of crusty bread.

No matter what type of bread you choose to make, all yeast breads go through the same main bread making stages. In this Rouxbe Cooking School lesson on The Stages of Bread Making, we will walk you through these stages, using the most basic dough - a lean dough - as our example. Artisinal breads are much more difficult to make and require precise understanding and methodology, which we will get into down the road. The goal with this lesson is to get people baking bread. We are trying to get those people who have never made bread before - which is actually the majority of people out there - to learn how to make bread by hand?from scratch, using the most basic ingredients and equipment (their hands). So, for now, let's start with the basics. You might find it useful to review the lesson on Wheat & Gluten, as well as the Basics of Bread Making before you get your hands dirty. Rouxbe Facts about this lesson that you may find interesting:

• Over 12 hours of footage was recorded.
• 500 additional shots were captured (in addition to the 600 that were captured for the previous lesson).
• 23 batches of dough had to be made to capture all of the different stages of bread making for this lesson and the last lesson.

Happy Bread Making!

The Rouxbe Cooking School Team.

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