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title: Bread Making
description: This topic covers the techniques of yeast fermentation, dough hydration, kneading, and baking. You will understand how to cultivate wild yeast starters, manage proofing times, and bake various styles of artisanal and sandwich breads.
category: trades-crafts
subcategory: cooking-and-culinary
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/bread-making
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# Bread Making

This topic covers the techniques of yeast fermentation, dough hydration, kneading, and baking. You will understand how to cultivate wild yeast starters, manage proofing times, and bake various styles of artisanal and sandwich breads.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 5 Websites

## Websites

### 1. r/Breadit Wiki

Community-maintained wiki of the r/Breadit subreddit collecting bread-baking guides, beginner recipes and troubleshooting advice, helping home bakers learn core techniques like mixing, proofing and shaping and diagnose common problems with their loaves.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.reddit.com/r/Breadit/wiki/guides/

**Tags:** bread-baking, sourdough, baking-techniques, troubleshooting, home-baking

### 2. The Perfect Loaf

Maurizio Leo's expert sourdough guides and recipes, top Reddit rec for practitioners

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.theperfectloaf.com/

**Tags:** sourdough, bread-baking, levain, baking-technique, recipes

### 3. kingarthurbaking.com

King Arthur Baking's site is a comprehensive baking resource with tested recipes, tutorials, and science-backed tips for bread, pastries, cookies, and more. It also features product information and buying guides for flours and baking gear.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://kingarthurbaking.com

**Tags:** websites, hospitality-tourism, cooking-culinary

### 4. serious-eats.com

Serious Eats is a food site featuring chef-tested recipes, cooking techniques, and culinary science explainers. For knife skills, it offers step-by-step tutorials on grip and handling, basic cuts (dice, julienne, brunoise), safety tips, and sharpening guidance, often with photos and videos.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://serious-eats.com

**Tags:** websites, hospitality-tourism, cooking-culinary

### 5. The Kitchn

Home-cooking site from Apartment Therapy Media with step-by-step technique guides, recipes, ingredient explainers, kitchen tips and equipment advice, written by a staff of home cooks to help beginners prepare everyday meals and build confidence with basic kitchen methods.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://thekitchn.com

**Tags:** home-cooking, cooking-techniques, recipes, kitchen-basics

## Books

### 1. Tartine Bread

**Author:** Chad Robertson

Chad Robertson's guide to the country loaf developed at Tartine Bakery in San Francisco, covering levain maintenance, long fermentation, shaping, and baking in a Dutch oven, plus variations and uses for stale bread. Readers learn to produce open-crumb naturally leavened loaves at home.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0811870413?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, hospitality-tourism, cooking-culinary

### 2. The Bread Baker's Apprentice

**Author:** Peter Reinhart

Peter Reinhart's baking textbook that breaks bread-making into twelve stages, from mixing and fermentation to shaping and baking, followed by dozens of tested formulas using pre-ferments such as poolish, biga, and sourdough starter. Readers learn why technique changes flavor, crumb, and crust.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1580082688?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, hospitality-tourism, cooking-culinary

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