How Does Xanthan Gum work? | Four Spoons Bakery

Canada’s Queen of gluten free baking, Nicole Knegt shows us how xanthan gum mimics gluten in this one minute video.

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[TobiX]

Wow the dough fall off the spoon you hold upside down and on the other it didnt! im so surprised :^)

[Heghineh]

I always use it when baking gluten free breads, can't imagine what would I do without it, such a difference

[Astryca]

its so fun to read through all of these comments, it usually starts with "oh but you need gluten, unless you are allergic to it", then there is some "smartass" that do whatever he can to convince everybody that gluten is bad for you.

[annakucerova]

I was googling a little and I found this info on Wikipedia: Xanthan gum may be derived from a variety of source products that are themselves common allergens, such as corn, wheat, dairy, or soy. As such, persons with known sensitivities or allergies to food products are advised to avoid foods including generic xanthan gum or first determine the source of the xanthan gum before consuming the food

[CookingLessonsforDad]

I have avoided using Xanthan Gum because I wasn't really sure what it was. No need to avoid it anymore. Thanks!

[scroggsie]

Cool, I've only eve used Xanthan Gum as a viscosofier when mixing drilling fluids for oil and gas wells, interesting to see it used in a similar way for gluten free baking.

[cheriee]

Cool! Always so it in the health section of the grocery store and never knew what it was for but wasn't curious enough to pick it up. Thanks !

[mixtermuxter]

I use superglue instead, works even better

[darkfightlight]

Gluten is good for you! (unless you have celiac)

[FoodAndDrinkInSeconds]

Never heard of this stuff, but sounds great!

[mariamaria-bewy]

I actually did an experiment with an alveograph (it measures the elasticity, the strenght of the dough and how it will react with heat), using rice flour, cheakpea flour and zea flour( really low gluten flour) and my results were really disappointing. Bit with xanthan gum the diagram of the results was close the gluten doughs. So yes, big thumbs up. But I haven't tasted it....can you tell a difference when you eat it? Also I want to ask, with what kind of flours do you use xanthan gum with? Thank you

[augustusvandusen]

xanthan gum binds iron and starch with water and let the starch upsorbe the water.

[ImFaladorable]

No reason to be gluten free if you're not gluten intolerant.

[Zarrell]

Now what a highly scientific empirical study that was! ;P

[BLiNdZoRz]

Xanthan gum gives me digestion issues and I'm tired of seeing it in every food product.

[franchellevanheerden]

Should i use it if i want to bake a keto bread?

[ciaacho]

one more gluten free video on this channel and I'm gone.

[dictare]

Would of been nice if she explained the other uses for Xanthan Gum.

[mackan]

Would have gotten better results with epoxy.

[simonj]

Did I miss the part where she tells us how it works? She seems to only tell us the results of what it does, and it's not a very good demo at that. I've seen better, stiff egg whites tipped upside down in a bown over someone's head.