Bread Shaping Demo with Ciril Hitz

Anyone can do this, but here are some tricks to help in anyone's mission to attain that perfect looking loaf of bread
Happy Baking,
Ciril

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[breadhitz]

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[Grufian]

We could live without the mindless repetitious "music" so that one can concentrate upon your voice

[breadhitz]

The problem is that I have to listen myself and I sometime get a bit tired of my own voice :) and whom can beat some great elevator music.

[Aleta Goree]

I like your music ..and the shaping video as helped me. I am just learning to handle dough. I was afraid of handing it ...but now realize the more I do the better my shape comes out.

thanks

[Sander Stulemeijer]

Very helpful video. Would like to know percentage water of flour weight used for the dough.

[David Mandelman]

Great video, very helpful for bread shaping. I've had difficulty creating tension in the dough for the final rise of batards and Hitz's techniques have overcome that issue. It does deflate (degas) somewhat the dough, but it rises again and forms beautiful Batards.

[yoyobeerman1289]

Instead of permanent marker you can just take your loaf and cut hardly noticeable lines down the length of the bread.

[dazzer24]

Great video. May i ask what the hydration of this dough is? Granted I'm an amateur but I struggle to tighten the dough enough to retain a batard shape-it spreads too much. I use 60% hydration when trying batard which is considered quite low? Still struggle though! I can prove in banneton but then the batard shape is lost..

[Joannawysiwyg]

Immensely helpful--thank you!

[Teresa Fazzolari]

And why in God's name would I want to eat a piece of bread with permanant marker on it? I hope you threw that one out. You have me puzzled.

[patisserie1]

Hitz, did you made that Lame yourself? If so, how did you do it?

[patisserie1]

Well, the elevator music was a nice touch. Surely, I can hear every word you said. I don't know what more does Grufian needs. But do we really think that Grufian would really make any bread? Heck no! Leave it to Grufian to nitpick at mindless nothings. Anyway, thanks for sharing on forming bread dough. I would definitely use your tips the next time I make bread.