The making of Panko breadcrumbs

A rare view into how Panko is created. Panko is used in a lot of japanese recipes; perhaps most notably in the making of Tonkatsu, deep-fried pork-'schnitzel'.

The process is explained in the video and in the japanese text displayed in it, which I can't read so don't ask me about the specifics please!

In general, it concerns a specific way of bread-making (in industrial-size containers); a dough is created, it's left to rise, it's split into smaller portions and then gets either of two treatments:

Either it's 'baked' much as one does with regular bread, which creates a white-bread with brown crust

OR it's baked in special containers (blue) using a procedure which seems to involve the use of steam to prevent any brown crust from forming, resulting in an entirely white crustless type of bread. The bread is then shredded in a very effictive-looking high-speed rotary shredder before being packaged and distributed.

In case you havent used or seen Panko before, think of it's consistency as 'the crusty stuff on a Kentucky Fried Chicken leg/nugget. It's much more 'fluffy/crispy' than your regular bread-crumbs tend to be. Fastfood/food-industry giants have been using it for years to make those extra nice deef-fry foodstuffs.

Look for Panko in your neighborhood asian food store.

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[1kausarkhan]

I THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart! <3

[insensitiveclod]

@1kausarkhan

You're welcome :)

I myself enjoy the japanese kitchen a lot and at first was wondering what all the fuss was about, just some breadcrumbs, right ?

But then, when you start using them , you find out they're so perfectly suited to what they're made for; and it seemed nobody, nowhere, could tell you anything about the actual way they make 'm.

So I hope I fixed at least part of that and glad it's been of help to somebody already.

[NersusX]

Thanks for the upload but the blue containers are for something different. The baking process involves electrical current. The bread is made by passing current through dough thus creating bread without a brown crust. This method was invented during WWII as a necessity to make bread without an oven.

[insensitiveclod]

@NersusX

Ah!

See, I posted this when I knew no japanese whatsoever (still don't know enough to decipher the descriptions in the video). But; with a little bit of guessing; i think I pieced together at least some of the steps correctly.

Thanks for the info about the baking-process with electricity. That sounds like a rather interesting innovation for certain types of food-preparation...Not quite in reach for the average home-cook; but perhaps it could be the next 'Sous-vide'-type hype ?

[SpamJavelin0]

As a chef who only recently discovered Panko, and just how light and flaky it is i found this illuminating.Thanks for post.

[scottskitchen]

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