Bread Illustrated - A Step-By-Step Guide to Achieving Bakery-Quality Results at Home by America's Test Kitchen

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In this comprehensive cookbook, America's Test Kitchen breaks down the often intimidating art and science of bread baking, making it easy for anyone to create foolproof, bakery-quality breads at home. Many home cooks find bread baking rewarding but intimidating. In Bread Illustrated, America's Test Kitchen shows bakers of all levels how to make foolproof breads, rolls, flatbreads, and more at home. Each master recipe is presented as a hands-on and reassuring tutorial illustrated with six to 16 full-color step-by-step photos. Organized by level of difficulty to make bread baking less daunting, the book progresses from the simplest recipes for the novice baker to artisan-style loaves, breads that use starters, and more complex project recipes. The recipes cover a wide and exciting range of breads from basics and classics like Easy Sandwich Bread and Fluffy Dinner Rolls to interesting breads from around the world including Lahmacun, Panettone, and Fig and Fennel Bread.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range - Adult
    • Format - Paperback
    • Dimensions - 8.5" W x 9.9" H x 1" D
    • Genre - Cookbooks
    • Publisher - America's Test Kitchen, Publication date - 09-06-2016
    • Page count - 432
    • ISBN - 9781940352602

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3 months ago
from Oregon

Homemade tastic

Great for beginners who need visual assistance with bread prep and making. Only downfall is book binding, I heavily use this book and am about to buy my second copy because other is coming apart.

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3 years ago

Grams absent from all recipes.

Take a peek at most US-based bread-baking internet forums, and most discussions are in grams. Likewise, over the last two or so decades, nearly all the books on the subject have started using grams, some of them exclusively, omitting ounces and cups. Weighing your ingredients guarantees reproducibility that cannot be achieved using volume-based measures like cups. And using grams ensures precision and ease of scaling. Yet in 2016, America's Test Kitchen still clings on to a mid-century mindset, when metric system didn't exist, and cups and teaspoons were the only thing to measure with. Sure, they threw in the ounces for those who insist on weighing, but grams were relegated to a conversion table in the back of the book. And that's too bad, as the book is otherwise well-written, beautifully photographed, and each recipe has the trademark "why this recipe works" section that gives useful information for the baker. Sure there is a missing table of contents, and yes the ingredients are printed in faint orange that becomes invisible in bright settings, but overall, this would have been an ideal book for a beginner or even an experienced baker. Still, skipping grams in the year 2016, is such a major omission, that I cannot recommend this book knowing full well, that there are plenty of similar books out there that do use grams.

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5 years ago
from Lafayette, LA

A must have: well illustrated and perfect results

I'm glad I bought this book a month ago to keep my daughter busy during the quarantine. It is very well written and illustrated. Everything is explained using step by step pictures. It is also very educational and contains so many interesting tricks. The science behind everything related to bread baking is explained and all the recepies are spot on. It is so explained and perfectly detailed that it leaves no room for failure. It allows you to obtain artisan bakery type breads at home. My daughter made so many different recepies already. They were all to the point and so tasty. This book made her fall in love with bread baking. You can't help but fall in love with this book. Everything in it is perfect and it's an easy and interesting read. I would recommand this book to eveyone.

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