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Rise to the Occasion: Bread Baking Classes
By Sarah Jane UdallFresh bread, right out of the oven, is one of the original comfort foods. Yeast-risen dough permeates an area with its aroma. It bakes to a golden perfection, and there's nothing better than the taste of fresh bread--unless you made it yourself. Learn how, by taking a bread baking class.
Bread Baking: All the Comforts at Home
Making your own bread is rewarding. It's exciting to watch the simplest ingredients--water, yeast, salt, and flour--become something more than the sum of the ingredients. Kneading the dough and shaping the loaves is calming and enjoyable. The process can almost be considered therapy at a fraction of the price therapy usually costs.
If you've never made your own bread, there's no reason to be afraid of working with yeast. Just take a bread baking class at a baking school. In a bread baking class, you learn how to assemble the dough and discover basic kneading techniques. You learn the difference between the various types of yeast and how to trap your own wild yeast to make starters for more complicated breads like sourdough.
A bread baking class can teach you how to make basic white bread, rustic French breads, mouth-watering brioches, braided challah breads, foccaccia with herbs, flatbreads, and even pretzels.
A Bread Baking Career
If the class you take at a baking school gets you hooked, you might even find yourself considering a career in bread making. At that point, you would look for a class in a baking school that can teach you how to understand the chemistry of baking bread. You may learn about important factors such as heat and humidity and their effect on yeast and flour as well as how to bake bread in commercial quantities. Careers in bread baking range from full-time bakers to chefs who only make bread.
Whether you're looking for a career in bread baking or just enjoy the pleasure of kneading, baking, and eating your own homemade bread, you can't go wrong with a bread baking class.
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