How To Bake Real Artisan Bread

Learn the skills, tricks and tips needed to make delicious artisan bread with confidence.

What you'll learn
By the end of the course you will be able to bake delicious artisan bread from scratch at home
Requirements
To complete this course you will need ingredients to bake bread including, strong bread flour, salt, yeast, water. You will also needs some basic equipment including, a mixing bowl, kitchen scales, a sharp knife, a clean work surface and a domestic oven and baking trays.
Description
OTHER BAKING COURSES MAYBE LONGER ON UDEMY BUT BEFORE BECOMING BAKERS WE WERE FILM MAKERS AND WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON MAKING PROFESSIONALLY FILMED AND EXPERTLY EDITED COURSES. MEANING YOU GET EXACTLY THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO MAKE AMAZING BREAD BUT WITH NONE OF THE WAFFLE!!  Ever dreamt of baking fabulous artisan bread at home to wow your friends and family? Tired of baking bread that resembles a house brick? Want to be confident that you are baking healthy, tasty bread from ingredients you can trust? Then this is the course for you!
Using high quality video the course takes you through the whole process of baking artisan bread at home using the traditional English sponge and dough technique.
Our clear and thorough course guides you step by step through the various stages of artisan bread baking, and we give you you an understanding of the reasons why slow fermentation makes so much better bread. By gaining insight into how fermentation, gluten development and other factors affect your bread the course not only enables you to make slow fermented bread in your own kitchen, but gives you the confidence to improvise, devise your own recipes, and further enhance your skills.
The course shows you how to make round loaves, batons, baguettes and fougasse. And alongside the video we provide you with downloadable tried and tested recipes (slow white loaf, granary, wholemeal, semolina raisin and fennel, apricot and cinnamon) and instructions that you can print and keep.
Artisan bread is made with time,
So are the happiest people.
Slow down,
Learn to bake.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to the course

Section 2: Preparation

Lecture 2 Ingredients

Lecture 3 Equipment

Lecture 4 Recipes and instructions

Section 3: The bread making process

Lecture 5 The Sponge

Lecture 6 The Dough - mixing, kneading and first rise

Lecture 7 The Dough - stretching, folding and second rise

Lecture 8 The dough - dividing and pre-shaping

Lecture 9 Final Shaping - boule and baton

Lecture 10 Final Shaping - a baguette

Lecture 11 Final Shaping - a fougasse

Lecture 12 Baking - slashing the loaves, loading the oven and oven management tips

Section 4: Conclusion

Lecture 13 Conclusion

Section 5: New Sourdough Course launched on Udemy: Wild Yeast Baking.

Lecture 14 Wild Yeast Baking trailer

While this course is intended for complete beginners, if you have previous baking experience you will find Dan's insights, tricks and tips an invaluable addition to your experience.