Tartine bread
by Chad Robertson · first published 2010
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Walks readers through baking bread from just flour, salt and water, including building a wild yeast starter; praised as a strong pick for sourdough and for home bakers making fancy-style loaves.
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The bread at San Francisco's legendary Tartine Bakery was developed by renowned baker Chad Robertson over a decade of working with the finest artisan bakers in the United States and France, followed by another decade baking solo in a small wood-fired oven on the coast of Northern California. The following for this singular bread far exceeds the bakery's daily production. Now, clear instructions and hundreds of step-by-step photos show you how to make this elemental bread. Also included are more than 30 sweet and savory recipes using the day-old bread to make sandwiches, soups, puddings, French
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…home. Dutch oven apparently simulates the same effect. A $5 loaf of "fancy" bread can be baked at home easily with ~50c worth of ingredients. She used this book to figure this out: https://www.amazon.com/Tartine-Bread-Chad-Robertson/dp/08118.... She tried numerous recipes from it (some of which were ridiculously elaborate), but the simplest and least time consuming one turned out to also be the best, not to mention…
on “Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (2019)” ↗Tartine Bread http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0811870413 The Bread Baker's Apprentice http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1580082688/ref=mp_s_a_1?pi=SL7...
on “Ask HN: What are your best 'cooking for hackers' links, books and tips?” ↗For bread, I don't think you can get much better than Tartine Bread [1]. Chad Robertson takes you through making bread from just flour, salt and water by making your own yeast starter. For general cooking, I will also recommend La Technique [2], its short and digestible…
on “Baking with the Bread Whisperers of Paris” ↗…Both are basically, as the GP remarked, are glimpses into other people's passion and deep fascination with a certain subject. Fantastic reads IMO. * In fact, let me add two more books - Ivan Ramen and Tartine Bread. Similar introductions into lives of people and their obsessions with a specific subject. https://www.amazon.com/Sharp-Definitive-Introduction-Sharpen... https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Bottle-Craft-Coffee-Roasting/dp/...…
on “No knives, only cook knives” ↗Just to throw in another title, Tartine Bread is excellent. The sourdough recipe from that book is the official recipe we used at the restaurant where I cooked in Park City, called Handle. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8185785-tartine-bread?fr...
on “Make your own sourdough” ↗Tartine Bread, ISBN: 0811870413 There are a few in the series, but get the first one. https://www.amazon.com/Tartine-Bread-Chad-Robertson/dp/08118... (not an affiliate link)
on “Baking a Better Loaf of Bread” ↗I can recommend two books: Tartine I and Italian Baker. There are many like this but these two I used and liked. https://www.amazon.com/Tartine-Bread-Chad-Robertson/dp/08118... https://www.amazon.com/Italian-Baker-Revised-Countryside-Its...
on “Breakfast at Bäckerei Frank (2014)” ↗I recommend "Tartine Bread" as a supplement to that, specifically for making breads with wild yeast. The method in Flour Water Salt Yeast for starting and maintaining the culture seemed really finicky and intimidating when I first…
on “Breaking Bread: The dark and white flours of ideology” ↗Reading comprehension failure. I read it as using only four ingredients, not as a title. I have "Tartine Bread" that I've been using, but like I said I was looking into expending my baking abilities. Thanks for the recommendation.
on “Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?” ↗The Tartine Bread book (as of 2018) explicitly recommends the autolyse/rest period (page 52, with more explanation on page 73).
on “Baker's Math (2009)” ↗I tried learning to make sourdough bread by reading the Tartine Bread book. The problem is, baking bread is such a sensual activity. You need to understand what it feels like when the texture of the dough is right. You need to learn how to fold and stretch the dough and…
on “Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]” ↗