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Bread Baking Fundamentals: Understand Fermentation, Dough, and Technique

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:54

    • 2.

      Autolyse

      3:42

    • 3.

      Fermentolyse

      3:03

    • 4.

      Water temperature

      4:41

    • 5.

      Dough Temperature

      1:32

    • 6.

      What is Bulk fermentation ?

      2:28

    • 7.

      Stretch and fold

      3:02

    • 8.

      Shaping, a quick overview

      1:57

    • 9.

      Final proof

      1:39

    • 10.

      Steam, how to do ?

      3:28

    • 11.

      What do I need ?

      4:22

    • 12.

      Get ready...

      0:50

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About This Class

Bread baking often seems complicated because many recipes explain what to do, but not why it works. This class is designed to help home bakers truly understand the fundamentals of bread making so they can bake with confidence and consistency.

This course is ideal for beginner and intermediate home bakers who want to go beyond simply following recipes and start understanding the science and technique behind great bread.

Instead of focusing on specific recipes, this class teaches the core principles used by professional bakers, explained in a clear and practical way for home kitchens.

By understanding these fundamentals, you will be able to improve your bread, troubleshoot problems, and adapt any recipe more easily.

What You Will Learn

In this class, we break down the most important concepts of bread baking step by step. Each topic is explained in simple terms so you can understand what is happening in the dough and why each step matters.

You will learn:

  • What autolyse is and how it improves dough structure and gluten development

  • The difference between autolyse and fermentolyse and when to use them

  • How to calculate dough temperature to control fermentation

  • Why final dough temperature is critical for consistent bread results

  • What happens during bulk fermentation and how to manage it properly

  • How to perform stretch and fold to strengthen dough without intensive kneading

  • The basics of dough shaping and why structure is important

  • How fermentation affects flavor, texture, and crumb

  • How to create steam in a home oven to improve oven spring and crust quality

Who This Class Is For

This class is perfect for:

  • Beginner bakers who want to start bread baking the right way

  • Home bakers who want to understand fermentation and dough behavior

  • Intermediate bakers who want to refine their technique

  • Anyone interested in learning the science and logic behind bread baking

No professional equipment is required. Everything is explained with practical methods adapted to home kitchens.

Why This Course Is Different

Many baking tutorials focus only on recipes. This class focuses on understanding the process.

When you understand how fermentation, dough temperature, and structure work together, you gain the ability to:

  • troubleshoot baking problems

  • improve crumb and crust

  • adapt recipes to your environment

  • bake more consistent bread

This course gives you the foundation every baker needs before mastering more advanced bread recipes.

By the end of this class, you will have a clear understanding of the key mechanisms behind bread baking and the confidence to approach bread making with knowledge rather than guesswork.

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Vincent Baker

Artisan Baker & Home Bakery Mentor

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Professional baker since 2009, I have worked across the full spectrum of baking: small artisan bakeries, large-scale industrial production, and my own successful home bakery. My journey has taken me to multiple countries, allowing me to experience different baking cultures, techniques, and business models.

Over the years, I have trained and advised bakers around the world, helping them improve their skills, understand bread fundamentals, and gain confidence in their craft. Today, my goal is to share this real-world experience with home bakers who want to master high-quality products at home--or take their first steps toward building their own baking business.

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1. Introduction: Hello, everyone, and welcome for this course about home bakery. If you want to make bread at home, some product at home. So this course right now is an introduction. It's more about understanding bread, okay? No following recipe. We'll have the recipe in the other section of this course. As you may know, bread is not magic. It's logic and fermentation. Thing of ingredients that comes together to finalize one product. And there's many factors to take into account. And once you understand why you're doing thing, you can manage much better your recipe. This course is for home bakers, or anyone who wants just to learn about bread, want to make bread at home, and the one who want to open maybe a home bakery or micro Baker sometime or why not industrial bakery. It will be more focused about home bakery. Ly because we're not going to have some professional equipment, professional and professional prover, professional mixer. We're just going to do bread recipe, explains everything with the equipment that we all have at home. And this is for people who want consistent result, people who want to understand why they do thing, and like this, they will have regular product with knowing exactly what they are doing. In the next lesson, we're going to talk about the autolyse, the fermentolyse. We're going to learn how to calculate the temperature of your water when you're going to mix some bread. We're going to talk about the bulk fermentation. Proving time, also the equipment that you're going to need at least because we all should have the equipment, but just in case you need some specific equipment that's cheap and you can most probably afford. We're going to talk also about stretch and fold, explain why it's important, a little bit of shaping the dough, but shaping is much better with technical and visual explanation. And this is pretty much all for this introduction before some recipes. And this will give you some very important knowledge to make your bread at home. So now we can just dive into the lesson. 2. Autolyse: The autolyse is the very first important rest in bread making. It's a very simple step, often misunderstood, but very important. So the autolyse, it's the mixing of flour, water, no salt, no yeast, no sourdough, simply flour, water, mixed together. Leave it forest. For about at least 30 minutes up to 1 hour. You can go up to 2 hours. I saw some Baker. They even did it for 5 hours. Generally, we do the otools for a few reasons. It's going to hydrate your flour fully. The flour is going to absorb the whole water, and then you're going to have much better mixing. It starts to develop the gluten naturally, also. You will see the difference between the beginning of mixing water and flour and the end after resting the otolse. You should have also slightly more colorful dough, little bit more creamish. It's going to be easier to mix also because there's already this process of developing the gluten, so you will have less time to mix, then less oxidation to the dough and a much better composition of your bread. Into the flour, you have some starch with the composition of water. It's going to start breaking into sugar. Once you have sugar, you're going to have a beginning of fermentation. It activates enzyme into the dough, and then your gluten starts forming without effort to do. You just leave it, the gluten start, and you already have a very slight beginning of fermentation and taste into your dough. So this is a step very important without doing nothing, and you're going to give an extra plus to your dough. You will have less kneading to your dough. Your dough will have a better extensibility. You can stretch it and it will come back. At the end, you will also have a better crumb structure, more bubbles, and it's going to be much better. And there's a big potential for much more flavor also into your bread. But there are some mistakes to avoid. Do not put salt oyest. This is different thing. No salt, no yest. Also, making autolyse far too long with a weak flour. So you need to have a strong flour at the beginning. Another mistake is to think it's mandatory. It's optional. It's something you can do to yo do and you don't have to do it. You can mix first speed, second speed, straight. No problem. But the otols's a process itself, which only going to give some plus to yod. If you have high hydration dough, 70% of water, for example, this is very beneficial. So I recommend to do it. Whole wheat or very strong flour. You can do it also, of course, because they have a lot and strong gluten, so it's going to do a very good beginning of fermentation. And then it's something very special for us as home bakers, it's going to really help for the hand kneading. You really need autolyse if you knead your dough by hand. You will see the difference, definitely. Without otolse, it will just break and it's going to be very impossible to knead by hand at the beginning. So this is the otolis. Water, flour mixed together, led to rest for 30 minutes minimum, up to 2 hours, even more if you want. It's going to develop flavor, color, and the beginning of fermentation and your gluten. So this is the otolis and I definitely recommend you to do it depending on your flour and your bread you want to do. Ebola, we are finished with the otos. Now we're going to talk about the therm tolse. 3. Fermentolyse: So the fermatolss another variation of the tools. It's a bit different, and some people might be confused with it. It's something very clear and for some specific use also. So the fermatols is same as otolse. You mix water, flour. But this time, you're going to add your van your sourdough. Van sourdough, same thing, veFrench sourdough in English. You're going to mix those three ingredients together, and you're going to like the otolse, you're going to leave it for us for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Probably not more because there's sourdough, so it's better to be careful. First, it's going to save time because it has the same process as autolyse. And if you watch the lesson just before, you know what's the advantage of this. So you're going to save time. You're going to simplify also your workflow because you don't need to mix the lava after and when you mix the lover after into a dough already done can be a bit problematic. It's not a big deal, but well, it's much better to do thermatols like this, all the main ingredients they already mixed together. It's useful when you usually already do otolis, but you want an extra fermentation with this one because you make a bread with sourdough. So you're going to save time. It's going to simplify your workflow, and you're going to get a faster fermentation. In the fermentols you will have much better fermentation at the very beginning. So you have to be careful also with the temperature of the water. And the fermentation, it's going to start immediately, okay? As soon as you mix flour, water, lava, the fermentation is going to start at the very beginning. And also, the structure of your dough is going to change faster. This is why you leave it a little bit less time. You need to take care a little bit more of it, but there's a lot of advantages about this also a stronger flavor and a little bit more color also. So it has lots of advantages. You will have a faster dough development. You will have a very good extensibility also. As I said before, extensibility, you can stretch your dough, it's going to come back, and you're going to have a flavor development slightly different from the oris. You will have a little bit less control than the autolyse because the fermentation start. So you need to be much more careful. If you leave it too long, if you forget it, your dough is going to weaken. You really need to take control of it. Otherwise, you're going to lose control. And the cons is you're going to get slightly different flavor development. Some people like it a little bit more acidic. I like it. Simply when you have a short production schedule, when you want to make a sourdough bread a little bit faster. Also, when you have a warm kitchen, it's going to start the fermentation faster. So your bread is going to be faster, which is very good. And when you want more flavor in your bread, simply, we have seen the otolsFlour water, the fermentols flour water and sourdough. You now know the difference between those two. But just before the otolse or the fermentols, you need to control the water temperature. And now we're going to talk about this. 4. Water temperature: The water temperature is probably one of the most ignored topic by most of the home bakers because the water temperature is going to control the speed of your fermentation, and this is why it's extremely important. That we work on yeast on sour dough, the yeast or sourdough activity will depend definitely on the temperature. Once you have finished to knead your dough at the final dough mixing, your dough needs to have a special temperature, a range of temperature to optimize your bread. And this is very critical. If you're not in this range of temperature, your bread can turn bad to really bad. And in general, when you have the same recipe, but you have a different result, it might be most of the time a problem of water temperature at the beginning. So this is something very important. So, like I said, when the dough is needed, totally needed, we need a range of temperature. This range is going to be between 23 degrees Celsius to 25, 26 degrees Celsius. So your dough after mixing, need to be 23-25, 26, 73 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit. It needs to be in this range. This is really important. The room temperature, how is it inside? If it's 20 degrees, 18 degrees, 25 degrees in summer, maybe flour temperature. If your flour is stored in the same place or maybe outside or maybe in the garage. You never know different temperature and the water temperature because you can take some cold water. You can take some warm water. You can take some not too cold, not too warm water. And also the friction of your mixing in the mixer. The faster you're gonna go, the warmer your dough is going to get. There's a simple thing you can do. If your room is warm, let's say 25 degree. Then you're going to take colder water. If it's cold inside your house, then you're going to take a warmer water. When I say cold, maybe ten, 15 degrees, and when I say warm, maybe 20, 25, maybe 30 degrees, it also, of course, depend on the season. If it's summer, then it's going to be very warm, if it's winter, then it's gonna be even colder. So even though usually you keep your flour probably in your kitchen, so the room temperature is the same as the flour. You need to remember if it's warm, take cold water, if it's cold, take warm water. If you want to go more into specific temperature, there's something that we take in professional bakery, calculation to make. In summer, we're going to take a number, which is 65. In winter, we're going to take 70, 72. This is number for summer and winter, okay? Between, you're going to take maybe 68. So we're going to take 65 degrees Celsius. Celsius. I'm going to take the temperature of my room, maybe 20 degree. I'm going to take the temperature of my flour, maybe 20 degree. I'm going to put them together. So 20 plus 2040 65 -40 means 25. Okay. So 25 degree is going to be the water I'm going to take from the tap. I'm going to take the water from the top at 25 degree for the mixing of mio, simple as this. If it's very warm, you can go to 60 even. Don't ask me why this number 60, 65, 72. That's how it is. That's number that works. This is the most complicated, I would say. Otherwise, summer, you're going to take cold water, winter, you're going to take warm water. Because first, you will have a predictable fermentation with the right temperature, you will know how it's going to ferment your dough. So better timing always the same timing. If your water is too warm, your dough is going to be too warm. It's gonna be faster. It's going to be a problem. If it's too cold, it's going to be longer and longer and it's going to be a problem. And then you will have, of course, less chance of underpving or overproving of temperature. Good final product. So a very important thing is the control temperature. I would say it's a professional habit. It's something you really have to do every time you do your bread. When I make a recipe in the next lesson, I don't tell you every time the temperature. It's you who need to calculate your temperature. And even at home, it makes a huge difference. So this is really important. This is something you really need to take into consideration. Like I said, after kneading, you need to have a dough 23-25, 26 degree maximum. Then what comes after this? The bulk fermentation. We call it in French pointage. 5. Dough Temperature: So of course we just talked about the water temperature, and now we're going to talk very quickly about the final temperature of your dough. Well, simply, like I said, because it's going to indicate the fermentation speed of your dough. It's going to predict the bulk duration. Yes, of course, because if your dough is warm, the bulk fermentation is going to be shorter. If your dough is cold, the bulk fermentation is going to be longer, and it shows the mixing impact that you give to your dough. If it's too warm, that means probably that you mix your dough a little bit too long in fast speed, maybe also because you put too warm water, but you know that it's one problem or one another, so you need to fix it after. Like I said, the ideal range is 23 to 26 degree Max. If it's lower, you're going to have longer fermentation. If it's higher, you're going to be a shorter fermentation. The water, the mixing friction, and the room condition, yes, because when you mix, the mixing take some air ambient air and put it into the dough. So if it's warm, it's also going to warm up your dough. I would say, take your temperature once only with the thermometer after mixing. Do it every time, and then with time and experience, you will know how to adjust it, how to adjust your temperature of water, how to adjust the mixing time. But, you know, the dough temperature is really a feedback of how you prepare your dough before. It's not a rule, but it's really a feedback. It's like tell you what you did right or wrong before mixing or during the mixing. 6. What is Bulk fermentation ?: This is the most important stage because most of the flavor and structure of the dough is going to develop in this time exactly. It's simply the time between mixing and dividing shaping. And your dough is going to start ferment in only one mass. You're not going to do nothing except leave the dough into one mass into a container into the ball of your mixer. First, the yeast or the sourdough is going to start produce gas. Then the gluten is going to strengthen, okay? So it's going to be stronger though. And then, of course, you're going to have the development of the flavors. In general, the dough double up, so it's going to be much bigger after some time. Also, the dough feels lighter when you're going to touch it, like more air inside, and you're going to have surface slightly dumbed. So in general, it's like, more like this. After mixing, it should be like this. And, of course, you're going to have a beginning of visible bubbles, simply because you have more gas, so you will have more bubbles. Because the time of bulk fermentation also depends on the temperature of your dough. And it's going to depend also on the type of your flour. If it's a whole grain flour, it's going to be harder for the bulk fermentation. Gonna take a little bit more time maybe. And finally, because it really matters for the strength of your dough. But you need to be careful because there are some common mistakes that beginners often do. The first one, of course, is to end the bulk fermentation too early. If it's too early, your dough is going to be small at the end. On the contrary, if you leave it for too long, it's gonna be overproof, more acidity, more fermentation and flat bread. So watching the clock instead of the dough is not the right thing to do. It's not because in the recipe you see 30 minutes that it means 30 minute. It's 30 minute, pretty much. You as a baker, you need to check and control your dough. It might be a little bit more, a little bit less, depending on the temperature, depending on kneading. So the bulk fermentation is this. You leave dough, your full dough into one mass, and you let it rest for some time to start develop the strength, the flavors, and the gas. And this is very, very important stage because if you make a mistake during the bulk fermentation, you can't fix it later. So what comes after the fermentation, dividing and shaping Shaping I'm going to talk very slightly about it because it's much easier to have a visual lesson that also you can watch in another lesson. 7. Stretch and fold: The stretch and fold is very popular step on the Internet and, of course, in the bakeries. And this step is really perfect for home bakers. And even in bakery, we usually do, but maybe not as much as it is done in a home bakery. It's kind of an alternative of kneading also. If you give less kneading of your dough for some reason, the stretch and fold is going to help improve od. The strengthened fold is a gentle strengthening technique, I would say. It happens during the bulk fermentation, and it's a technique where you're going to take your dose, stretch and fold it on itself. Or you can also take one side, stretch it, and put it. Then you take the other side, the other side, and the other side, finally, you stretch and fold simply. We're going to use this technique to give some strength, extra strength to the dough if your dough is a bit weak. So it's going to build, obviously the gluten naturally. A, it's going to help it. Of course, it's going to preserve the gas because they don't get out. And like I said, it's going to improve the strength of your dough. In genal, you have your bulk fermentation. Let's say you're going to do it for 1 hour and a half total. Every 30 minutes, you're going to do a stretch and fold. Stretch and fold, it just take literally 2 minutes. You stretch and fold, and you leave it another half an hour to rest. You stretch and fold, another half an hour, stretch and fold, and another half an hour. You can do two, three stretch and fold. It really depends on your dough. It really depends on what you want. You need to check your dough to control the strength of your dough. It's always a feeling you need to have with the dough. We generally do it like every 30 minutes, but I would say it can be done every 20 to every 40 minutes, even every 50 minutes. Me, I do it every 50 minutes sometimes. And you can give two to four times stretch and fold. I can't tell you give two or give four. It's like, even in my recipe, if I do three, it's because of my recipe, because of my flour. But maybe maybe you're going to be at home and you're going to realize that your dough doesn't need more because it's very strong already. That case, you do just. So there's some common mistakes you need to avoid. First, doing it too aggressively or too strong. This is not good. Don't stretch your dough until it just break into part. You don't want this. Don't do it too many times. One on each side. That's enough. Don't need to over fold it. And then, like I said, it's not like exact science. It's a feeling. So if your dough is already strong and you're going to do it, it's not going to be good. So don't do it if your dough is already strong. Main benefit of the stretch and fold is to give some extra strength to your dough by a very simple technique that everyone can do. And when you do it, I recommend you to put some water into your hands or eventually oil. If you reach, it's going to give some flavor, but water is more than enough. Like this dough is not going to stick everywhere into your hands. 8. Shaping, a quick overview: So shaping your dough is not only for the aesthetic side of your bread. It directly affects the crumb and the shape of your bread. The shaping is simply the final organization of your piece of dough, what you want to make with it. It's the final creation of the tension of your dough, and it's simply giving direction to your dough, what you want it to be, for the final product, how you want it to be. First, it's going to trap the gas correctly. When you're going to make a shape, the gas are going to stay inside and then develop. It's going to strengthen the structure of your gluten, of course. And obviously, it's going to control the expansion of your bread in the baking time. The extension is going to be like the way you cut your bread. And if you just put a piece of dough like this into an oven, you don't know how it's going to come out. But, you know, with the shaping, you can overshape or undershape the dough. And what's it going to do? If you overshape your dough, you're going to dig as too much. That means you're going to make it very, very compact and you're going to have a very tight crumb. And if you undershape, you're going to have a weak structure and you're going to have a flat bread. So bakery is always finding the right thing in the middle. Well, simply because the bulk fermentation, for example, already the job of giving strength to your dough. So you don't need to do too much into the shaping. And finally, shaping is more, like I said, guiding how you want your bread to be at the end and not forcing how you want it to be. So for the shaping, it's very important for you to stay gentle when you do it. You want to put the tension on the surface of your dough and not inside in the middle of your shaping. The dough needs to feel alive and not squeezed. So you need to focus on consistency, guide your dough how you want it to be, repeating the same movements all the time, and filling the dog 9. Final proof: It's simply the final rest before baking. It's often confused with the bulk fermentation, but it's two different things, bulk fermentation before dividing, final proof, after shaping. So the purpose of the final proof is a last expansion final expansion of the gas into your bread. You want to also have a relaxation of your dough of your bread after shaping and simply you want to prepare your dough before baking. And the difference with bulk fermentation is that this fermentation is much more delicate stage because you see your product, you made your product, and you need to be really careful the way you want it to be. But it's also very important because this is the stage where you can overproof your bread. And if you overprof it, it's finished. You can't correct your bread before baking. To check if your final proofing is done, you're going to press your dough. If it slowly come back, it means it's perfect. If you have a very smooth surface, you know it's done. It's good also. If you push and it stay, overproof. If it's hard, underproof. So if you overproof, you're going to have a very flat bread, probably not a good taste. But if you underproof, you're going to have a bread. After the opening, it's going to explode and it's going to be very tight also. That's not what you want. So this proofing, the final proofing is really about the readiness of your bread. It's the final stage before baking, and it's also a very important stage. During this step, you're going to develop the last gas for the dough, you're going to develop the last structure of your dough and the last guidance of your bread. If you miss it before baking, you're not going to have the product that you want. 10. Steam, how to do ?: Also, we need to talk about the humidity of the oven. So when you bake your bread, the humidity it's extremely important. But it's going to affect the final product. Without humidity, you're going to have a very gray bread, very hard on the top, not beautiful at all, it's going to be ugly and it's not going to develop properly. So it's going to be smaller, drier and not nice. Humidity is going to help you though when you put it in the oven. To develop. It's going to give a nice cream with the golden color. It's going to be beautiful. There's a few techniques to make humidity in the oven. Nowadays, some oven, they already have this program. You can put some humidity. The professional oven, they already have. You push a button. If you don't have, there's a few techniques. Technique number one, we all this tray. You know, the black tray, the fries tray, we call it in French. When you preheat your oven, you leave it inside. Then you're going to put your bread into the oven. And at this time, you're going to pour some water into this tray straight. You can put like a lot, 500 milliliter of water straight into the tray, and you close very quickly the oven, and it's going to be enough. This is a very good first option, another technique. Some people, they put some stone in this tray. So you can find some stones. Some people, they put some volcanic stones. There are some many types of stones that you can find on Amazon on Internet. It's a little bit like, you know, ham. The stones gonna keep the heat. And then when you're going to pour a lot of water, it's going to make lots of humidity. So it works a little bit better. I would say. I tried it once. It's just more annoying because you have to manage the stones, which stay warm a long time after you bake. So this is another option, option two. Option three, you can also have a ball, a metal ball or clay. You put it in the oven with some water, same process all the time, and it's going to make some humidity. First option. Some people also, they spray, put water inside, and before putting your bread into the oven, you're going to spray all your bread a lot. So you spray your bread before oven, you put them inside 3 minutes after you open, and you spray again and you close. This is another option. Also, you can find some other small equipment on Internet, Amazon to put water inside. So there's many techniques that you can use. Me, I recommend the first technique, the simplest one. The only problem is just with time, your black tray is going to be a little bit destroyed or you can just simply buy another train in the second hand job, for example, and you use it just to put the water. So this is the main technique. First technique, straying the tray, second technique with the stone, third technique, with the ball, and for technique, you can spray. You can also combine some technique. You can use the tray, put water inside, but you can also spray more humidity is going to be inside at the beginning, the better it's going to be. I mean, of course, don't make a ham into the oven, but you need quite a lot of humidity really for the beginning. At half baking, you can take out the humidity. You can even take out the tray. Your bread should be beautiful and it's just going to bake your bread in a dry environment. So it's really good also. You're going to make it more crispy. And we do like this in general in a bakery. So you have a few different techniques for the humidity. This is a very extremely important step. When you bake your bread, if you don't have humidity, you will have a very ugly and not good bread. So you need the humidity. Don't hesitate to put a lot of water. If you put only one glass, this is not going to be enough. Now we go to the next one. 11. What do I need ?: And finally, we're going to talk about the equipment that you might need for your home bakery and to make bread at your home. You don't need professional equipment to make bread. Skills are much more important. Once your skills are developed, you can have some better equipment to improve your workflow. Of course, you're going to need a scale. So you can take small scale like cooking scale. It's more than enough. Just be careful if you need to weight, for example, 2 grams of salt, 1 gram of yeast. If you don't have a good scale, it's not going to take the way. So be careful of what type of scale try to get a good one. You're going to need eventually a mixer, if you want a mix. There's many types of mixer. You can have a kitchenette for example, I don't really like it. Maybe the new one, they are better. You can have Kenwood. There's many brand, and there's many type. Just choose whatever you want. But you can also do everything by hand. So don't worry, if you don't have a mixer, this is not a problem. Of course, you're going to need a bench scrapper. This one is metal to scrap your bench, to cut your dough. You can have some plastic one also to clean the ball of the mixer, to cut your dough also. And if you use this on your bench, you can destroy your bench a little bit. If it's metal, Wood. This is a wood table, so we don't want plastic would be better. So this is very important. It's your choice. Metal or plastic. Me, I have the metal one, but I always use the plastic one. You're gonna need also some forms. So for the form, me, I generally use this type of form, very cheap form. Those ones are very cheap. I pay maybe two euro per form, and it was on I Express, but they are really good. I have them for very long time, and they do totally the job. You can also have some wooden baskets. You put your dough inside and then you take out your dough before baking. And yeah, it's a choice. It really depends on the shape that you want to make and me I like this because I like the shape. I like to have a hybred. So it really depends on you. You're going to need an oven, so you should have an oven, of course. You should have a time this is not really important because you have your phone also, but I would say timer is better because when you have dirty hands, you don't really want to touch your phone. And finally, to cut your bread before putting in the oven, you need some plate. And in general in bakery in professional environment, we just have this type of blade. This is gillet. It's to cut the bell. And in general in bakery, we always cut the bread with this like this. You have four corner when one is tired, you just change. It's not a safe way, so I don't really recommend you to use this if you're beginner. Can buy some other blade that you can find on Alex Express on Amazon on many website. They have a stick, which is much, much more safe. Me, I like to use this. It's simple. I can find them everywhere, and, yeah, that's my choice. As a beginner, I would recommend you to have one with a stick to hold it. The thermometer, I take this one and it tells me straight the temperature inside because it's a laser one. So it tells me the temperature where I pointed. So a point it on me, on the door, inside the room, the flour, and I will have the exact temperature. It's instantly This is cheap, and it's really, really good. Also, you can have a Dutch oven. Some people they have this, so you can check on Internet. I don't use it. I don't really like it. It's just bother me. It makes it easier if you don't want to bother to make humidity into the oven. And first, I would say, you don't need a spiral mixer. You know, it's like a big ball and they have spiral hook. This is going to be for more professional use. You're not going to need a professional oven, a proofer, these kind of things. Forget, at least at the beginning. When you have something like this, like a thermometer, you should have some regular and consistent product at the end. So you know exactly what you're doing. And it's going to simplify your learning also, because if you don't have thermometer, for example, if you don't have a timer, you're going to struggle. So if you have this equipment, it's going to improve your learning time because you're not going to waste some time wondering why this happened this way and not how it should be. So would say this is the first equipment that you would need for home, so you don't need much. Of course, I didn't say but a container to put your dough avora, you just go with the flow and you can make bread at. 12. Get ready...: So now we have talked about the most important steps when you make bread. I hope you understand everything. If you have some question, do not hesitate. Just ask me, ask on the page. I explain you everything like we learn it at the Baker school. So, of course, it's much, much more developed in school. It takes much longer time, and you also practice. And now you have the basics. You're ready to make some super nice bread. You're ready to follow some recipe. You can try the recipe next. You can experiment. You can try new things. Hesitate. I'm really happy to help people making bread at home, especially when I see how expensive it is. Thank you so much for watching this video. Thank you so much for supporting me because, yes, you're supporting me also. So now you can keep doing with the recipe. I see you there. Thank you very much. Chow