The 7 Most Common Breadmaking Mistakes You’re Probably Making

See the 7 Mistakes:
00:00:26 — Not Weighing Ingredients
00:00:53 — Salt on Yeast
00:01:15 — Too Much Liquid
00:01:39 — Not Covering Your Dough
00:02:09 — Inadequate Proofing
00:02:43 — No Steam
00:03:16 — Letting Out the Heat
00:03:50 — More Bread Recipes


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[funandlala]

0:30 Buy a scale
0:56 Don't let salt and yeast come into direct contact with each other. Salt can kill yeast.
1:17 Avoid adding too much water
1:37 Keep your dough covered.
2:08 How to proof properly
2:42 Failure to create steam in your oven
3:14 Do not let the heat escape while baking

[pedantic]

Disposable shower-caps are great for covering your bowl and can be used many, many times over.

[GrammerAngel]

Great tips, but be careful adding steam to the oven. Home ovens will rust internally if you do a lot of bread baking and add steam. My brother is a Bosch technician and he tells me he is seeing more and more ovens that are trashed because of well meaning bakers adding water/steam/ice cubes to the ovens.

[abhikumar]

I was once at a baking class and the chef there told me to throw in some ice cubes in the oven to create Steam! I thinks its a brilliant Idea!

[breadcrumbs]

Tip #2 is a myth, unless you’re leaving the leaving the salt with the yeast for like a few hours or something. Yeast granules are coated with a layer of dead yeast; allowing the granules to contact salt for a few seconds isn’t gonna kill any living yeast.
Tip #3 and #6 are also pretty recipe specific and don’t apply to all breads. A brioche dough or ciabatta dough is traditionally very loose and sticky and you need that to create a soft, juicy product. Additionally, enriched doughs typically don’t require steam (with the exception of maybe some ciabattas or crusty rolls that contain minimal amounts of oil). The whole point of steam is to keep the crust extensible in the hot oven so the loaf can expand to its fullest capacity, but the fat in enriched doughs already softens up the crust, so additional steam is unnecessary and might give you an unwanted crispy crust.

[susand]

I just discovered your channel and obsessed. Thank you for this as I just started my bread making journey

[diananeenooth]

I Love Bread making 🥰 and Thanks with love for these tips 😙

[michelechiostri]

This is a really helpful video, thank you for taking the time to teach!

[monashamdasani]

Thank you Gemma, have been in bread-making zone ever since discovering your channel since the lockdown era! Through all kinds of results, I enjoy bread making even more, there’s no turning back. Keep inspiring us, lovely Gemma & Family 💕

[deepaphilip]

Thanks a lot Gemma. I have to say that I love watching your bold baking basics and all these tips that you give coz its so helpful for those of us who are new to baking and also I love your homemade mascarpone cheese and cream cheese recipes coz they are so expensive to buy from the stores where I live. So this is just amazing. Thanks a lot Gemma.

[JW-zcmz]

You're awesome, thanks for the tips. Just started making no knead bread on Easter, so I'm glad to have few more great tips from you.

[kellyoconnor]

Hi Gemma! I love these tips on what to avoid when making bread! I have decided to make more bread in the new year! You certainly caught me with opening the oven door 😳. I am infamous for getting worried with anything I bake & checking on it! I appreciate the tips about proofing too. Hope you are feeling well.❤❤

[giuseppedimarco]

Thanks! i found it very useful! i needed to know!

[filomenacavallaro]

Thank you so much for the tips to make a good bread😉
Bravissima e grazie Gemma.💋❤🤗

[cookiegirl]

Thanks for all the great tips on bread making. Can’t wait for your next video. Happy New Year 🥳 ❤️

[wonderfulvillain]

i just started my bread baking journey 3 days ago! this couldn't have come at a better time 😆🙌🏼

[DiaDia]

Very nice tips for bread! Sometimes you never know what is wrong with the dough! Thank you Gemma for all these information! Have a nice day! 👍👏🍞

[smalltowncrystals]

Thank you so much....great tips during this time of need ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[lrose]

Thank you so much for making this tutorial!

[antoniajagodic]

Thank you, this happened to me sometimes 💕