How French Baguettes Are Made In Paris | Regional Eats

Claudia Romeo: Baguettes. Can you name a more quintessential French food? The recipe is quite simple. You just need flour, water, yeast, and salt. Yet, here in France, it's not just any loaf of bread that anybody can make at home. We're in Paris in the 14th district, and we're about to meet with Mahmoud M'seddi. He's an artisanal baker, son of a baker, who's been making bread basically ever since he can remember. This is his shop. Let's walk in. [bread crackling] Mahmoud is a master of bread. Look at this giant loaf! He even won an award for the best baguette in Paris. What he's going to show us is not your average baguette, but the baguette tradition, which is a baguette made on-site with simple ingredients. Claudia: Making a baguette is much more complex and time consuming than you'd think. Every step requires inside knowledge, skill, and expertise. It all starts with the dough. Mahmoud starts making the dough at 5 a.m. with only flour and water, kneads it, then at 8 a.m. he adds yeast and salt and water again. Claudia: You can hear the sounds of the dough. [dough squelching] Claudia: When the dough is ready, it rests for one hour. Then it is taken out in small batches. Claudia: The batches of dough will be left to rest until the following day, while batches from the day before are going to be cut in pieces and shaped. This is when the dough starts to resemble a baguette. Claudia: One batch of dough will make about 20 baguettes, and about 200 baguettes will come out from the whole of the dough. [crunching] Wow. It smells so nice. So soft inside.

Channel: Food Insider

Views: 2,228,297

Rating: 4.9105563 out of 5

Keywords: INSIDER, regional eats, Baking Techniques, Bakery, Baguettes, French Baking, FOOD INSIDER, Bread, Paris, Baking, France, UK Original Video

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Length: 16min 16sec (976 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 11 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Mr_Smartypants]

270 C (519 F) for 19 minutes melts my brain.

[u/SmellsLikeNostrils]

I want to smell!

I WANT TO SMELL!

[u/Provokateur]

I worked as a baker for a while and baguettes are SO HARD to make well; this is ridiculously impressive.

It took me months before I could do it consistently. You can barely even pick up the dough without totally ruining the shape and the bubbles (and therefore the crumb). And every time I mention that, someone chimes in that they like to bake at home and can make baguettes as good as Panera's. Yes, I could do that too, on day 1. Then after hundreds of times and thousands of baguettes doing it right I could actually make *good* baguettes. The fact that it seems so effortless in this video just makes it that much more impressive.

[u/hatetepidshowers]

fun fact. French word for 'wand' is 'baguette'. The French Harry Potter has him waving his baguette around.

[u/Whitetornadu]

FYI: The link skips the first third of the video

[u/RikikiBousquet]

Great video.

Leave it to the French to speak with such passion about bread.

[u/TakeshiKovacs46]

If a french baguette is made in France, isn’t it just a baguette?

[u/EhUhEuh]

Hey! I've actually heard of this guy before. He was featured on the first episode of Duolingo's French Podcast. This video was interesting in more ways than one:

1. Food! More specifically: Baking!
2. How something is made.
3. French language. He speaks so clearly and not too fast. I'm a beginner so this is really helpful to me.

Thanks for sharing, OP. Saving this video. I would've watched it earlier when you first posted it but i was waiting to watch until after dinner. I love bread but it hates me whomp whomp

[u/Doctor_Fritz]

this made me hungry