Binging with Babish: Bao from Pixar's Bao

Hey, what's up guys? Welcome back to Binging with Babish, where this week we're taking a look at the bao buns, from Pixar's Bao A.K.A one of those rare moments I get to use a recipe directly from the source. Because director Domee Shi provided her mother's recipe for bao, which starts with four cups of all-purpose flour, 3/4 teaspoon of dry yeast, tiny-whisked together before adding 500 millilitres or 2.1 cups of water to the party. We're just gonna fold that together using a rubber spatula until a cohesive dough forms at which point we're gonna turn it out onto a lightly-floured countertop, kneading and adding flour or water as necessary, until it's not too sticky, not too dry. Then we're going to lightly oil a bowl, for rising purposes, plop our dough inside, cover and let rest for two hours. And please take note, this is the time during which you should make the pork filling. I didn't do this, and I will regret it for the rest of my life. Anyway, after its two-hour rest, the dough should've about doubled in size. Mine is still pretty sticky so I'm gonna turn it out onto a heavily-floured work surface.

Channel: Babish Culinary Universe

Views: 8,822,180

Rating: 4.9670982 out of 5

Keywords: pixar, short, bao, bun, baozi, homemade, pork, chinese, dim, sum, dimsum, char, siu, charsiu, belly, bao bun, how to make bao buns, how to make bao dough, how to make dumplings, homemade bao, homemade bao recipe, home made bao, home made bao recipe, binging with babish, cooking with babish, babbish, pear qwerty horse

Id: OFt3SThGi7M

Length: 7min 12sec (432 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 19 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/inverse_tiresias]

/u/OliverBabish, you can use the first few tougher outer leaves of the cabbage (before chopping it up) to line the bamboo steamers, no oiling or paper needed.

[u/derstherower]

That gesture of pure despair at 3:25 when he realized all of them stuck to the parchment.

[u/Den_of_Decadence]

Binging with baobish

[u/thewarring]

Wait, did he just reference Steve from Steve1989MREInfo?? Or is the "Let's get it out onto a tray" from something else that Steve also does like that?

[u/rydarus]

u/OliverBabish I dare you to make xiao long bao or Tim ho wan style frosted char siu bao :)

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolongbao

http://www.timhowan.com/

http://chopsticksandmarrow.com/2017/03/tim-ho-wans-pork-buns-rock/

[u/spookyxraccoon]

Man, I was hoping you were going to make soup dumplings too.

[u/Vendetta425]

No cross section of the bao. So sad.

[u/Majestic_Beard]

TINY WHISK HYPE

[u/dropoutwolf]

So if we dont have a steamer how would we make this?