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Focaccia is one of my favourite kinds of bread, and it’s a lot easier to make than you think! In this video I’ll go in depth on how to nail your dough every time, and I’ll also show you some ways to turn your focaccia into something special.
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Focaccia: https://www.andy-cooks.com/blogs/recipes/no-knead-focaccia
Lemon, olive and oregano: https://www.andy-cooks.com/blogs/recipes/lemon-olive-and-oregano-focaccia
Grandma Pie: https://www.andy-cooks.com/blogs/recipes/grandma-pie
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:34 Plain Focaccia
15:40 Chicken Stock Focaccia
19:42 Lemon, olive and oregano focaccia
24:06 Sorta Sicillian Pizza
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39 Comments
I couldn't find instant yeast in Germany. Could only get fresh.
Focaccia can either be the simplest bread to make or the most difficult. But I agree, it is the tastiest bread to make.
Like the pizza idea, I usually either do plain, or a sun-dried tomato with sauteed onions. I typically do 90% hydration.
I looked up @soul snack and it's some Darh man bs….. wtf
My favourite aussie greeting.. How the focaccia.. lol Happy new year guys much love =bb
Full length bread video….yes please
Thank you for the guide, I love how approachable you make these.
Andy my man what are the instructions when I want to use my Kitcenaid
"just get them to make it" 😂 Best recipe advice ever
Perfect timing Andy. I’ve been looking for a good focaccia how-to, how did you know? 😄
Making all of these.
Thanks once again for this excellent resource. 👍👏🤟
Just made this today, insanely easy insanely good
Where come from (nothwest of germany) you can buy fresh yeast in every supermarket and it costs pretty close to nothing (lately € 0,09 for 42gr).
Using fresh yeast is actually really common in Sweden (and maybe other Nordics too?) for at home baking! ^^ We have dry yeast too, however many of the older baking recipes lists fresh yeast to be used 😀
First thing I look for in your vids is the vinyl you have on display. Always good albums, good tunes ✨️👌🏾
Detroit Pizza, no offence to Sicily
It doesn't really matter what the recipe is, your videos make me happy!
Thanks for the guide on how to convert between fresh and dry yeast. In my stores yeast is most commonly found in small 50gram blocks of the fresh variety. With one version for sweet doughs and one for “standard” doughs.
I just realized that what we call ‘tomato pie’ in Philadelphia is foccacia with an olive-oily tomato sauce baked on top. Hard to explain how good it smells baking or how uniquely marvelous its flavor is.
Or make your own bread flour by adding vital wheat gluten
I have 2 danish dough whisks. It's all I use when baking bread!!!
would be a much better video if you told us the amount of stuff you are mixing.
I was never good in anything , but now I’ve got to cook by myself, and I like it. Thanks mate, I learned a lot from ur channel
were are the large bubbles in center? i leave mine to rise for 18 hrs the bubbles makes it amazing in the crumb
Mate that pizza version is ridiculous! So good.
Great recipe and instructions, especially about temperatures and the folding. I've made focaccia a couple of times but always ended up too dense, but this was light and fluffy, really happy about how it came out! Would love to have even bigger airbubbles inside, is that a matter of higher hydration?
Fresh yeast is the norm in Denmark and in the rest of Scandinavia (I think), so for us dry yeast is exotic.. although you can get it. So thanks for the 3 to 1 ratio tip 😄
"Gave rise"… I see what you did there. Right out of the gate.
I've never cooked bread before, EVER and I successfully made this today. I'm an ok cook, the hubby does most of the heavy lifting in the kitchen. Let me tell you, this turned out fantastic and everyone loved it. Recipe was simple and easy to follow. I will be trying variations of toppings using this base in the future. Thanks for the inspiration!
AGAIN not gluten free
I’ve been watching Chef Jean Pierre and he never uses water in anything. It’s wine or stock.
I've never made bread before but made this yesterday, it came out perfect! My dough seemed a little wetter than in this video (it stuck to my hands more when folding, but maybe I didn't wet my hands enough), it still came out very light and fluffy in the middle so I'd say it worked out. 10/10 I'll make this in to a regular recipe.
My only issues were personal mistakes like leaving the bread in the tray to cool instead of on a wire rack, so it got a little stuck and the corners were more crisp on the outside, and you can see a thin line on the base of the bread where it's oily.
All in all, I'm happy I chose Andy for my first bread making video, and will do better next time I make it. 😀
I'm from Sweden and every family I know bakes with fresh yeast. It's in every grocery store. I've wondered why it's less common in other countries
Only time I've used fresh yeast was during COVID. Yeast couldn't be found in any shops in the UK, along with flour etc. I got some from the bakery inside the supermarket instead. One of the bakers came out to give it as a freebie.
Have you ever made the real focaccia from Genova?
Fresh yeast is actually the most common in Denmark
It's so weird to me as a Dane that people use dry yeast instead of fresh, as fresh yeast is the type every supermarket and kiosk here has. I had never seen dry yeast until I was a teen and saw american cooking videos 😂
The crunch at 15:25 freaked the camera out so much, the recording glitched 😂
Hate to say it but, that focaccia is quite dense.
I used to make focaccia all the time. It is easy