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Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast
Loaf fail! What could go wrong in a recipe with just four ingredients–flour, water, salt and yeast? When it comes to making bread, it turns out, a lot. In addition to the some recent, notable bread...
View ArticlePizza Dough Sandwiches
This brand new video from YouTuber Internet Shaquille will resonate with anyone who owns a pizza oven and has tried to use it at a party. In short, it’s hard to operate the oven and pay attention to...
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Our Daily Bread: Sonora Sesame Za’atar Bread
In an effort to take off some pandemic pudge and eat more healthy we’ve been baking our own 100% whole wheat breads. The King’s Roost and a Mock Mill make this easy and convenient but you can also get...
View ArticleUse Your Microwave as Dough Proofing Box
I don’t now why it took me so many years to realize that our kitchen temperature is too low for proofing bread. Most of the year here, except for the hotter months, our interior temps are in the 70sF...
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Keep a Rye Starter!
I took a pizza class at Josey Baker Bread in San Francisco this month and picked up a great tip from the instructor, JB pizza baker Caitlin (sorry did not get a last name!). She told us the bakery...
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Don’t Worry About the Boule: Bake Bread in a Loaf Pan
In the frivolous, pre-pandemic before-times I slacked off on my bread baking. At the beginning of quar, I prepper-panicked, hastily re-started my starter and fired up the Mockmill 100 grain mill....
View ArticleParticipate in the Science of Sourdough Project
If you missed the short sourdough lecture I linked to last week, you can watch it above. To summarize, researchers at North Carolina State’s Department of Applied Ecology are attempting to figure out...
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Timing Sourdough Feeding
A recent “quarantine” loaf. There are many paths up the holy mountain of sourdough bread baking. Wildly different methods will yield acceptable and edible results. But, no matter the method, I think...
View ArticleMake Pizza in Your Oven
In addition to sharing a name, Eric of Garden Fork and I seem to exist in some sort of synchronicity vortex. This past Saturday, after I finished teaching a bread class in which I used the same dough...
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What You Need to Bake Bread
As the co-founder of a club for bread nerds, I field a fair number of urgent, sometimes panicked baking queries. While in the past I’ve posted basic bread recipes and lists of equipment, I’ve since...
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Recipes From the Rye Baker
Berlin Rye. Photo: Stanley Ginsberg/The Rye Baker. A number of you, our dear readers, said you’d have liked to have attended the rye class this past weekend taught by Stanley Ginsberg if only you...
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The Rye Revolution
At last the rye revolution has arrived! We have nothing to lose but our fake supermarket rye loaves. I’m happy to say that the Los Angeles Bread Bakers is hosting a class with the rye expert, Stanley...
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A Celebration of Craft
Dave Miller at work. Photo by Josey Baker. The highlight of the National Heirloom Expo, for me, was running into three people who epitomize the value of dedication to a craft. I’ve found that such...
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099 The Amazing Sourdough Breads of Guy Frenkel
Guy Frenkel is one of the most talented bakers I’ve met. If you’ve seen his whole grain, sourdough breads in Instagram (@Ceorbread) and Facebook you’ll know why I had to interview him. During the...
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Learn How To Bake Sourdough Bread with Dana Morgan February 18th
Want to learn how to bake your own tasty sourdough loaves? Take a class with the Los Angeles Bread Baker’s amazing instructor Dana Morgan on February 18th at the community oven in Westchester. Not to...
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097 Mill Your Own Flour with a Mock Mill
First off, I want to thank Eric Rochow of Garden Fork for subbing for Kelly and I on the previous podcast (episode 96). Thank you Eric! And I hope everyone listening to our podcast will also subscribe...
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Discover the Magic of Home Milling this Saturday
In my opinion, way, way too many home bakers don’t know about the benefits of milling your own flour. If you’re in LA this weekend and are interested in getting more intimate with your flour, there’s...
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Learn to Bake Your Own Bread! Fall Classes With Dana Morgan and Linda Preuss
Tired of crappy supermarket bread? Don’t like paying $10 for a loaf of decent bread? How about learning to bake your own bread? I can’t think of any better teachers than my friends Dana Morgan and...
View ArticleJosey Baker whole / wild / wet / slow / bold
The bread nerd club I co-founded, the Los Angeles Bread Bakers, brought Josey Baker down to LA to teach a class. Now you can watch a version that very same class via Youtube for freeeeeee. I’m a huge...
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Sourdough Baking Class July 9th
Just dig that beautiful loaf. Want to learn how to bake it yourself? The very talented Dana Morgan is teaching a basic Tartine style baking class on July 9th in Westchester. There’s also a pizza bake...
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