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How To Make Traditional French Baguettes At Home



These sourdough baguettes are some of the best that you can bake at home. They take a lot of patience, but once you hear that crunch, and taste they’re incredible flavor then you shouldn’t have a problem with that. Now Technically these are slightly shorter than a typical baguette, also known as demi baguettes. That’s just so they can fit in your darn oven.

Recipe: https://www.joshuaweissman.com/post/french-baguettes

Huge thank you to Maurizio for his baguette method Utilized in this recipe: http://theperfectloaf.com

Guides you might need to watch first:
My Sourdough Starter Guide: https://youtu.be/sTAiDki7AQA
My Oven Steaming Method: https://youtu.be/PabONWAcGSs

Baguette Equipment Used:
My Fermentation Station: https://shop-links.co/1736366675767151742
My Lame (for scoring): https://shop-links.co/1736366722483231572
The Couche That I have: https://www.sfbi.com/18-linen-canvas-couche-detail
Another Couche Option:https://shop-links.co/1736366797099560530
My Bench Scraper: https://shop-links.co/1736366823750402897
My MIll(they only have the red banded on in stock): https://shop-links.co/1736366848104119736
Another Mill option: https://shop-links.co/1736366869303503988

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39 Comments

  3. Curiuosgirl

    Omg… I am a grandma who does most things from scratch… but this is too much work for me. Costco has a 2-pack of very long, good quality baguettes. I buy them warm, immediately cut them into quarters, wrap & freeze em & use one at a time for my sandwiches… Some nice Costco bakery person does all this mind-boggling work for me.

  8. Carsch A

    Let's cut the crap and get to business………let's make bread. Hollywood is for losers. LOL

  9. afcgeo

    Just so everyone knows, a traditional baguette is made with yeast, not a sourdough starter, and even UNESCO recognizes that.

  22. Nick C

    I work at a French artisan bakery that pretty much uses this exact method for making baguettes. I think it’s great that you don’t dumb down the process and focus on quality of the product. This stuff is going to be way over the head of the average home cook, but hey, they can take the time to learn instead of complain

  25. kimberlific

    I don't think anyone has yelled at you in the comments about it yet, so I'm just going to:

    Couche sounds like KOOSH.

    😉😂

    Like a koosh ball. If it was "couché," it would be "koosh-ay."

    Working on baguettes today, finally! Thanks for your detailed video!

  26. hat hat

    i feel like just mastering the baguette will take 10000 hours. let alone the rest of the bakery…

  29. freedk9

    Thanks for your videos, very interesting! What is the protein content of the bread flour you used?

  31. Ask Hermit

    Wow, that was a lot of steps. I'm going to have to watch this video a few more times before I even think of doing baguettes

  33. Snap

    Amaizing but so complicated that I went to a great Bakery (Im in Brazil so here all bakery do bread) and got mine worm and under 15 min. Sorry Dude, cant wait 1 day to eat.

  34. Christian Valdez

    Am i high or when he was doing the slap and folds it lowkey looked like he was slamming a dead animal over and over 💀💀i hope im just trippin 4:33

  37. MonsieurCoinCoin

    To pronounce "couche" in French, think of it as "coosh". The "e" at the end of couche isn't pronounced. The "ou" part is pronounced similarly to the "oo" in "food", but short and without accentuation. "ch" is a simple "sh" sound. It's means blanket, but medium thick, the kind of which was used for beds or diapers (hence it is also used to mean "diaper" and used to be used for "bed" back when we used mostly blankets instead of duvets and conforters).

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