How To Bake Bread: The Five Families of Bread

If you only buy one book on baking bread, make it this one. It explains the "how" and the "why" of yeast breads in so much detail! Measurements for recipes are given in English and metric and for several different batch sizes (how many loaves or how big your mixer is, if you're using one). Easy, conversational tone, technical stuff presented logically and builds throughout the book, lots of interesting trivia, too! I'm working my way through all the types of breads in this book, and will be buying his second book on sourdough baking when I'm ready.

I had no idea how scientific bread baking could be. The book covers the make-up and use of flour, yeasts, tools, and bread families as well as techniques and tips to making bread baking easier and better. Who knew there is an ingredients weight ratio vs a cup/spoon measurement for accuracy and consistency? If you already understand baking bread, there are hundreds of pages of recipes for every bread group. If not, start on page one for a comprehensive education. It's already helped me improve my pizza dough. This is a great book for anyone interested in taking their bread baking to the next level! Big print and easy to understand. Highly recommend!

This is a textbook for students in culinary schools, but it is written in such a way that a home baker can learn too, without being boring. If you want to understand the 'why' of processes, this book will tell you, with ways to help things stick in the memory. Material is well organized in chapters that flow, and the pages include tables and sidebars for 'tips'. The illustrations are clear with straightforward photo series to show the steps of any process, simple black and white but very effective. I also appreciated translating processes for the home baker, for example how to adjust instructions for machine mixing dough from a 20 qt commercial machine to a table top mixer, plus the illustrations for mixing by hand if desired. Finally, the quick reference materials in the Appendices and Index are very useful to find what you want to know fast. It's a technical book written in an accessible way and the author's enthusiasm comes through the pages.

understandable & applicablethis is my textbook for Artisan Breads in Culinary School - it's fantastic

I had to get another copy of this book--my first one went missing. I teach community college and use this in my bread course. The recipes in are clear for the students and the breads taste good!

Just as my son requested for Christmas.

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