Ultimate Bread Baking Handbook

Italian Long Roll Featured in Season 1 Episode 1: Dear @Sorted Food, This is a REAL Philly Cheesesteak Ingredients ❏ 1 packet of yeast ❏ 2 tablespoons of sugar ❏ 1 cup of water ❏ ½ cup of milk ❏ 5 grams of amylase enzyme ❏ 4-5 cups of flour ❏ 2 tablespoons of salt Instructions: 1. In a bowl, combine the yeast, sugar, water, milk, and the amylase enzyme. Let this bloom for about 20 - 30 minutes. 2. In a mixer, add in the flour and salt and let that combine. Add in the bloomed yeast mixture and mix on low for 2 minutes 3. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes. 4. Turn your mixer back on low and knead for another 15 minutes. 5. Take the dough out of the mixer and gives it the final knead and shape it into a bowl. 6. Place your dough into an oiled bowl, rise and ferment overnight in the fridge. 7. The next morning, take your dough out of the fridge and divide into 4 pieces and shape your long rolls. 8. Let your long rolls proof for 1 -2 hours. 9. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit and place an oven safe pan into the oven. 10. Add in some ice cubes to help to create steam and a nice color on the bread. Bake your long rolls for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

White Bread Featured in Season 1 Episode 2: I Tried Recreating The Popular Indian Street Sandwich at Home Ingredients: ❏ 3 ½ cups Flour ❏ ⅛ cup of Maple Syrup ❏ 1 tablespoon of Dried Active Yeast ❏ ⅛ cup of Grapeseed Oil ❏ 1 ½ cup of Warm Water ❏ Pinch of Salt ❏ ⅛ cup of Butter or oil Instructions: 1. Get a big mixing bowl and add in 1 ½ cup of flour, maple syrup, dried yeast, oil, and warm water into the bowl and mix that together. 2. After mixing, let the mixture activate for 10-15 minutes. 3. Add in the rest of the flour (2 cups) and a little salt to the mixture. 4. Let it rest for 10 minute for the gluten to relax. 5. Floured your kneading surface and knead it for 5 minutes. You should have a nice supple dough once you are done. 6. Grab a big bowl with a little oil and let the dough sit at room temperature for 1 -1.5 hours until it doubles in size. 7. Give your rested dough a little pat down after it doubles in size. 8. Take a loaf pan and make it non-stick with some oil. 9. Take your dough out and just rolled it up, put it in the loaf pan to let that proof for 1 hour. 10. You want your proofed dough overflowing over the sides of the loaf pan. 11. Melt a little butter and brush it on top of your proofed dough so you get a nice deep rich flavorful crust. 12. Preheat your oven at 350°F and bake it for 30-35 mins. 13. Take out your bread and let it cool off and enjoy!

Milk Bread Featured in Season 1 Episode 3: The Most Expensive Sandwich I Have Ever Made Ingredients: Tangzhong or a starter: ❏ ⅓ cup of Bread flour ❏ ½ cup of Milk Dough: ❏ 2 ½ cups of Bread flour ❏ ½ cup Milk ❏ 1 packet or 2 teaspoons of Dried yeast ❏ ¼ cup of Sugar ❏ 1 Egg ❏ 1 teaspoon of Salt ❏ 4 tablespoons Unsalted Butter Instructions: 1. For the tangzhong, add a little bit of flour and milk into the pot and stir that around on low heat for 5 minutes until it thickens up, almost like a roux. Let it come down in temp. 2. Activate your yeast; Take a medium-size bowl or cup, add in a little bit of warm milk (90-100°F), yeast and sugar, then let that activate for 10 minutes until it’s nice and bubbly. 3. Take a big mixing bowl, add inactivated yeast, beaten eggs, flour, tangzhong, a little salt and mix that up until it starts to come together. 4. Take your dough out from the mixing bowl, and put it on the floured surface and start kneading until it starts to form together. 5. Let the dough sit, let those glutens relax a little bit. 6. After the dough is relaxed, add in some butter. It’s going to be hard to knead with the butter in at first, but eventually, this will come together. Knead for about 5 minutes. 7. After kneading it, let it rise for about an hour to an hour and a half until it doubles its size. 8. Start working on your dough; put your dough on floured board and chop that into multiple pieces. You need about 3 decent-sized pieces for one loaf. 9. Take a loaf pan and spray that down so it doesn’t stick. Put 3 pieces into the pan, and make sure they have enough space to rise. 10. Let that sit for an hour until it just rises above the edge of the loaf pan while your oven preheats at 350°F. 11. Beat up an egg with a bit of milk to brush on the dough, so it gets a nice golden crust. 12. BAKE! For 20-30 minutes until bread thermometer reads around 200 to 210°F. 13. ENJOY!

French Baguette Featured in Season 1 Episode 4: I Flew a French Guy to Help Perfect This Sandwich... Ingredients: ❏ White Flour ❏ Whole Wheat Flour ❏ Water ❏ Sourdough Starter ❏ Salt ❏ Ice Cubes Steps: 1. In a bowl, mix together with white flour, whole wheat flour, and enough water to get about 65% hydration. Let that sit (autolyse process) for at least 45 minutes. 2. After the autolyse process, pour in the sourdough starter and add in some salt. Mix that all together until it’s nice and incorporated. 3. Start stretch and fold for every 45 minutes for 2 hours to develop the gluten structure. 4. You can perform a stretch test, you can see how at here. 5. After stretch and fold, let the dough rise in the fridge overnight until it gains about 40-50% mass. 6. Flour the kneading surface. Put the dough on the surface & start dividing into 4 pieces. 7. Start pre-shaping the divided dough and let it sit for about 30 minutes before the final shaping. 8. Give the baguettes a final shaping. You can see how that is done here. 9. Proofing hack for baguettes at 10:36 10. Let it proof for about 2 hours until they pass the poke test. 11. Preheat the oven at 500°F, and bake the baguettes. Baking hack, adding some ice cube on a tray and put it in the bottom because the ice will slowly melt and release steam which will help with the oven spring and the color on the baguettes. 12. After 20 minutes, turn the oven down to 450°F and cook for another 20-25 minutes until they are golden brown. Enjoy!

Pita Bread Featured in Season 1 Episode 5: The Art of Crafting the Perfect Sandwich Ingredients: ❏ 2 teaspoons of dry active yeast ❏ 1 cup of warm water ❏ Drizzle of maple syrup ❏ 3 cups of flour ❏ Drizzle of olive oil ❏ Sprinkle of salt Instructions: 1. In a large bowl, combine the active dry yeast, warm water, and a drizzle of maple syrup. Let this proof for about 15 - 20 minutes or until nice and puffy. 2. Then add in your flour, olive oil, and salt. Combine until it start to come to a dough. 3. Take it out of the dough and start kneading it until it comes into a soft and supple dough. 4. Give it a rest to relax the gluten a bit. (about 30 minutes) 5. Then once it has rested, knead it for 5 more minutes. 6. Let this proof for about 1 hour. 7. Once fully proofed, deflate it and cut into small balls. You should get around 12 balls. 8. Roll out each ball to a round flat disk. 9. Meanwhile, oil up a cast iron and place in the oven at the highest temperature that your oven goes to. 10. Place one of your pita dough onto your pan and bake for 3 minutes. 11. They will puff up (not all pitas puff up perfectly) and you are ready to fill you pita with tons of delicious toppings!

Sourdough Rye Bread Featured in Season 1 Episode 7: Montreal Smoked Meat vs. New York Pastrami Sandwich

Ingredients: ❏ 100 grams of rye flour ❏ 900 grams of bread flour ❏ 750 grams of water ❏ 150 grams of sourdough starter ❏ Pinch of salt ❏ 1 tablespoon of caraway seeds Instruction: 1. In a large bowl combine the rye flour, bread flour, and water. Mix until the water has been absorbed by the flour. 2. Then add in the 150 grams of sourdough starter and pull, shake, and fold. 3. Give it a rest for 30 minutes and then add in your salt and caraway seeds. Give it another pull and fold and rest for 30 minutes. 4. Continue giving your dough 2 more pull and folds giving the dough 30 minute intervals after each fold. 5. After the last pull and fold let the dough sit for 30 minutes to relax the gluten. 6. Shape the dough into two dough and let them proof in a banneton until it has doubled in size. This could take anywhere to 4 hours or overnight. 7. Once the rye dough has doubled in size, preheat your oven to 475 degrees fahrenheit along with a cast iron pot and lid. 8. While everything is preheating go ahead and score your bread. 9. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown!

Cemita Roll Featured in Season 1 Episode 8: How Is This Mexican Street Sandwich Not More Popular? Ingredients: ❏ 1 packet of Active Dry Yeast ❏ 2 tablespoons of Sugar ❏ 1 cup of Warm Water ❏ 2 Egg + some egg wash ❏ 2 tablespoons of Butter ❏ Pinch of Salt ❏ Flour ❏ Sesame Seeds Ingredients: 1. Activate the yeast -- add dry yeast, sugar, and warm water into a mixing bowl. Mix them together and let it activates for 10 minutes. 2. Pour the yeast mixture into a food processor, add in 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons of butter, salt (about 2 tablespoons), 3 cups of flour, and blend that for about 5 minutes. You will get a nice supple and smooth dough. 3. Flour the kneading surface, knead the dough for a little bit until it’s extra smooth and just let that rise in an oiled bowl for 1 hour, doubles it size at room temperature. 4. After it doubles it size, pat that down and let it rise again for another hour. 5. Once that’s done, take out your dough and put it on the floured surface. Roll that out and cut it into a few pieces, and roll those up into balls. Let rest for about 10 minutes. 6. Rolling out the dough -- position your hand in the chopping position and ROLL them right in the middle to form 2 sides. Make sure one side is a little bit smaller than the other, and it looks like 2 balls (but it’s still attached). Pat them down with your hands, and flip the smaller size on top of the bigger size. Pat it down flat again. Watch the rolling technique in the video here. 7. Put the dough on the baking sheet with parchment paper, brush them with egg wash and sprinkle some sesame seeds on the top. Let them sit and rise for 1 hour. 8. Put them in the oven at 450°F for 15 minutes and you get this nice Cemita roll.

Everything Bagel Featured in Season 1 Episode 9: The Bagel Sandwich that New York Created Ingredients: ❏ ½ cup of warm water ❏ 1 packet of yeast ❏ 1 tablespoon of sugar ❏ 8 cups of bread flour ❏ 20 grams of salt ❏ 3 tablespoons of malt syrup ❏ 1 tablespoon of White Sesame seeds ❏ 1 tablespoon of Black Sesame seeds ❏ 1 tablespoon of Poppy seeds ❏ 1 tablespoon of Flaky sea salt ❏ 1 tablespoon of baking soda ❏ 2 tablespoon of malt syrup Instruction: 1. In a bowl combine warm water, yeast and sugar. Let this bloom for about 15 - 20 minutes. 2. Then in a mixer combine flour, salt, malt syrup, and activated yeast mixture. 3. Let the mixer knead the dough for about 20 minutes. Let the dough sit for 20 minute to relax. 4. Once the dough has relaxed you are ready to make bagels. 5. Start by cutting long snake like strands of the dough and then roll the dough around your hand and form them into a nice bagel circle! 6. Place your bagel onto a tray sprinkled with corn flour and let them proof overnight. 7. Since, we are making everything bagels we need to work on the everything bagel topping. In a bowl, combine the white sesame seeds, black sesame seeds, poppy seeds, and flaky sea salt. Set aside and get started on cooking your bagel! 8. The next morning, get a pot of water and add in your baking soda and malt syrup. Then bring it to a boil. 9. Drop in your bagel and let them boil for about 1 minute per side. 10. Take them out of the water and douse them with your everything mix. 11. Preheat your oven to 500 degrees and bake your bagel for 10 minutes. Flip them onto the other side and then bake them for another 5 - 10 minutes so that it has a good bagel crust.

Sesame Pancake Featured in Season 1 Episode 11: 2000 Year Old Chinese Sandwich Ingredients: ❏ 1 cup of water water ❏ 2 ½ cup of flour ❏ 1 tablespoon of instant yeast ❏ 1 tablespoon of sugar ❏ 1 tablespoon of neutral oil ❏ 1 tablespoon of salt Instructions: 1. In a mixer, add in the warm water, flour, instant yeast, sugar, neutral oil, and salt and mix for about 1 minute until everything is combined. 2. Take the dough out and knead it by hand until it is nice and smooth. 3. Place it into an oil proof bowl and let it proof for about 1 hour or until it doubles in size. 4. Once it has doubled in size, roll out the dough slightly smaller than the pan that you are cooking it. 5. Spread a little bit of oil onto the dough and sprinkle both sides of the dough with sesame seeds. 6. Also add oil and sesame oil to the pan that you will be cooking the dough in and be sure to get up the sides of the pan. Place the dough into the pan and proof the dough for about 1 hour so that it can be extra fluffy. 7. In the meantime, preheat your oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. 8. Once the dough has risen a bit, place it onto your stove top and turn the flame to a medium heat. Make sure that you keep and eye out so that you don't burn the dough/ sesame seeds. Keep turning the dough so that you have an even golden brown color. 9. Flip the dough over and cook the other side in the same manner. 10. Once both sides are golden brown place the bread in the oven for about 5 minutes so that you can cook the dough all the way through!

Choripan Roll Featured in Season 1 Episode 12: These Three Simple Parts Make Up Argentina’s Most Popular Sandwich Ingredients: 1 packet of Active Dry Yeast 1 ½ cups of Warm Water 1 tablespoon of Honey 3 cups of Flour plus some extra for flouring surface/dough ❏ 8 grams of Salt ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏

Ingredients: 1. Start off with activating the yeast in a mixing bowl. Then add in dry yeast, 1 ½ cups of warm water, 1 tablespoon of honey, and let that activate for 15 minutes until it’s nice and bubbly. 2. Then add in 1 ½ cups of flour, and let it sit for an hour, the mixture will continue to activate and rise. After letting it sit for an hour, add in another 1 ½ cup of flour and salt (8g). Mix that together until it’s well incorporated. 3. Let the dough sit for 15 minutes so the gluten can relax before kneading. 4. Flour your kneading surface, and knead it for 5 minute to really develop the gluten structure. 5. Once it’s nice and supple, you can place it in a bowl with a little bit of oil. 6. Let it rise and double in size for 1-1.5 hours. 7. Take the dough out and put it on the floured surface and split it up into a few pieces and form those into nice little balls. Let them rest for 10 minutes. 8. You can start forming your bread roll with the dough ball, check out the forming techniques in the video here. 9. Let your formed dough proof for 30 minutes to an hour until they’ve gained a little bit of air. 10. Take a razor blade or a sharp knife, and give your proof dough a little slash on the top. 11. Spray them with a little water on the top and bake them at 450 °F for 15-20 minutes. If you want your bread roll to develop a nice crispy and dark crust just continue to spray the bread with water every 5 minutes. 12. Enjoy your fresh roll!

Turkish Bread for Doner Kebob Featured in Season 2 Episode 1: I can’t believe Im just fining out about this bread??? Ingredients: ● 1 cup water ● ¾ cup milk ● 1 tablespoon of sugar ● 2 Tablespoons of salt ● 1 packet of rapid rise instant yeast ● 3 tablespoons of butter ● ⅓ cup of sourdough starter (mostly for flavor) ● Start with 1 cup of flour but you will need more ● 1 egg + milk for an egg wash Instructions: 1. In a pot melt the butter just so that it is liquid. You don't want it to boil or brown. 2. Then in a large bowl combine the milk, water, sugar, instant yeast, butter, sourdough starter, and 1 cup of flour. Give it a good stir. 3. Keep adding more flour until it becomes more of dough mass. It will still be super sticky and tacky but that’s it exactly how you want it. 4. Let it rest for 20 minutes and then give it a stretch and fold. 5. Let it rest for another 30 minutes and then give it one last stretch and fold. 6. Now you can let it rise for about 1 hour. 7. Once the dough has rested and is visibly puffy, take it out of the bowl and split the dough into one large dough ball and then one small dough ball. 8. Give them both a rough shape and place them onto a parchment lined baking tray. 9. Similar to a focaccia, gently push down the dough with the tips of your finger to create a round dimpled dough. 10. Egg wash the dough and sprinkle on black sesame seeds and white sesame seeds. 11. Preheat your oven to 385 degrees while the dough proofs a bit. 12. Bake the Turkish bread for 25 - 30 minutes or until golden brown or the internal temperature reaches 210 - 214 degrees fahrenheit.

Z-man Sandwich Recipe Featured in Season 2 Episode 2: I recreated Paul Rudd’s Favorite KC Sandwich from Scratch!

Kaiser Roll: Ingredients: ● 1 Tablespoon sugar ● 1 packet of instant yeast ● 2 cups of warm water ● About 3 cups of flour ● 1/8 cup of olive oil or any oil you have on hand Instructions: 1. In a large bowl combine the sugar, yeast, and water. Let bloom for 30 minutes or until it becomes noticeably puffy. 2. Add in the oil and then slowly start to mix in 3 cups of flour. 3. Once the dough comes together let dough rest for 20 minutes. 4. Take the dough out of the bowl and give it a good knead. 5. Shape it into a round ball and let it sit for 1 hour or until double in size. 6. Knock the air out of the dough and cut it into 8 equal size pieces. 7. With four of the pieces, roll them into tight balls, stamp them with the kaiser roll stamper. 8. With the other four, roll them out into logs and braid them. Check out how I braided them here! 9. Let them proof until double in size and bake them at 390 degrees fahrenheit for 10 minutes with the lid on and then continue baking them with the